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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: I LOVE LUCY
EAN: 0097368882744
Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Running Time: 680 minutes
Sales Rank: 5532
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1951
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: I LOVE LUCY
Title: SEASON 5
Street Release Date: 08/16/2005
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Genre: TELEVISION
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I Love Lucy: The Complete Fifth Season finds Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) making an international mess out of husband Ricky's globe-trotting tour as an entertainer. Beginning with 'Lucy Visits Grauman's' and 'Lucy and John Wayne,' the impulsive redhead risks Ricky's sanity in Hollywood by stealing a cement slab, from the famous entrance to Grauman's Chinese Theater, that contains the imprint of John Wayne's footprints and signature. In the tradition of superstars playing themselves on I Love Lucy, an exasperated (and very funny) Wayne gets into the act over and over and over again, making new imprints on multiple slabs because Lucy keeps messing up the results. After more shenanigans in Los Angeles (Lucy attends a ritzy party with a dummy substituting for her unavailable husband) and a disastrous train ride home, it's time to jeopardize Ricky's success during an interview show that ends disastrously.
Lucy's fifth season travel theme continues when Ricky and his band are booked on a European tour that does not include his wife or the Mertzes. Of course, that doesn't stop the determined Lucy (or Ethel), who schemes her way into Ricky's plans, only to have a number of snafus arise as she tries to leave the country. In the I Love Lucy tradition, entire episodes are written around such simple matters as trying to get a passport, or helping with Fred's fear of getting seasick while traveling. All this show's stars really need is a ridiculous, open-ended situation to exploit, and the comedy flows from there. 'Bon Voyage' is a particularly funny episode in which Lucy gets left behind by the European-bound ship carrying Ricky and the others, and she has to find a way to get back aboard. The hilarious 'Lucy and the Queen' finds her angling in London for a way to meet the Royal Family after Ricky is invited to say hello at the Palladium. From there, Lucy creates chaos in Scotland (this episode includes a memorable dream sequence in which Ricky appears as Scotty MacTavish MacDougal MacCardo), Paris (where she and Ethel plot to meet guest star and good sport Charles Boyer at an outdoor café), Rome (the outstanding 'Lucy's Italian Movie' finds her dispatched to a vineyard, where she has to crush grapes--brilliantly--with her feet). Lots of special features, including a behind-the-scenes peek and bloopers. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Doesn't everyone love Lucy?
This season of Lucy shows the Ricardos away from home in Hollywood and Europe.
Though the episodes in Hollywood with Lucy and Ethel "souvenir hunting" John Wayne's footprints are great for laughing out loud, the favorite episode in our household is Lucy's struggle to get her passport. More than once the look on Ricky's face when he walks through the front door to the apartment and discovers a little man (the doctor from Lucy's childhood) dancing in his living room and hears a trunk (Lucy trapped inside) singin along has caused me to laugh until the tears stream down my face. Lucy just doesn't get any better.
And, by the way, did anyone ever really appreciate just what a great straight man Desi Arnaz could be?
Don't miss the almost-forgotten episode on the train trip home from Hollywood. It's a roll-in-the-floor laugher, too.
Rating: - America's fave troublemaker!
I Love Lucy - The Complete Fifth Season picks up right where the gang left off in Hollywood including the John Wayne episode and Lucy dancing with a replica of Ricky's face, so hilarious! Also in this collection are the episodes where they go to Europe. My favorite episodes from season five are: The Great Train Robbery, The Nursery School, Bon Voyage, Second Honeymoon, and Return From Europe. I highly recommend this timeless classic, you will have a ball!
Rating: - Keep Lucy Coming!!
I own this dvd collection and am really happy with it.
I just hope that this release prompts season set releases.
Please vote for ALL of Lucy's remaining shows to be released as season set dvds. We now have complete sets of I Love Lucy and The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour. We just need The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, and Life with Lucy.
Rating: - Possibly the series' funniest season, from Hollywood to Europe
Season five of I LOVE LUCY (1955-1956) from Paramount Home Video has some of the series' most classic episodes, including John Wayne's footprints in Hollywood and a memorable transcontinental train journey home to New York City on disk one; bon voyage to Europe and Lucy needing a helicopter to reach a missed ship on disk two; and all over Europe on disks three and four, including the grapes stomping (and fighting!) in Italy, romancing Charles Boyer and starting a nutty fashion trend in Paris, winning at gambling in Monte Carlo when they were not even consciously playing (and are not even supposed to be in the casino per Ricky), and, funniest of all, smuggling a huge smelly cheese through transatlantic customs disguised as a baby (then getting accused of murder in New York when Lucy and Ethel eat it en route to save on the price of a baby plane ticket!). It is especially funny to see tight-wad Fred Mertz made Ricky's Band Manager and constantly take penny-pinching to new heights. This matchless series is as great as TV sitcoms get. And season five is close to the best season. Other seasons have truly classic episodes, but season five has the most of them, especially impressive because it only has 26 episodes.
And we finally get I LOVE LUCY completely remastered, uncut, and non-commercial after half a century with cuts. (The original shows clock in at around 26 minutes, so a full four minutes are missing from every syndicated episode, even now on TV Land.) We also get a glimpse ... Read More
Rating: - A TIMELESS COMEDY HIT
Watching this brilliant comedy, it is sometimes hard to believe that all of them are gone. Watching them over and over it never gets tiring or boring. It's like watching old friends again. For me the best sit com ever,followed by the Golden Girls.
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