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IT'S LUCY! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?
This is truly a classic. It seems funny that Lucy Ricardo has two good friends that look like Ann Sothern. In this show Lucy shares a cruise with her good friend Suzie McNamara, {11/6/57} played by Ann Sothern, and meets her later to be husband Ricky... and meets Fred and Ethel Mertz for the first time. Fred with hair is truly the moment in history that true tv classic lovers dream of. Later, on the the Ann Sothern show, {10/5/59}, Lucy Ricardo visits Katie O'Connor, {played again by Ann}, on "The Ann Sothern Show", one of my favorites. The only thing I'm saying is...when it comes to great fun, true classics, wholesome entertainment, a great feeling of the 50's and 60's television... get this show, watch it again and again...and remember, for those who were lucky to live in those days...remember when tv itself was young and worth watching....

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It Could Have Been Better!
Like anyone else I love I Love Lucy but this is not one of the best episodes of the 1 hour episodes they briefly made when they stopped making the 30 minute episodes of the classic show and considering this is about how Lucy and Ricky first met I thought it could have been better, really the only part I thought was funny was when Lucy and the character played by Ann Sothern accidently got drunk from the water that had been spiked with booze.

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At long last, the story of how Lucy and Ricky met
The seventh season of the "I Love Lucy" format consisted of five longer programs called "The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show." For the first episode (November 6, 1957), gossip columnist Hedda Hopper interviews the Ricardos and Mertzes in Connecticut as they tell the story of how Lucy and Ricky first met. It seems young Lucy McGillicuddy and her friend Suzy McNamara (Ann Sothern playing the character from her TV series "Private Secretary") were on a cruise to Havana on the same boat as young Ricky Ricardo and his friend Carlos (Cesar Romero), the Mertzes and singer Rudy Vallee. The episode sounds better than it really is, mainly because Vallee is such a boring guest star and the writers are having such trouble, although certainly an effort is made to increase production values and make this something special. In fact, this first show ended up being 75 minutes long and Desi Arnaz ended up asking "The U.S. Steel Hour" to cut its show to 45 minutes.