A CBS Blu-ray Original Series Box Set
The iconic comedy series that became the template for all sitcoms has been collected. I LOVE LUCY: The Complete Series, now on Blu-ray, captures the legacy of the legendary Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, including an array of unique features.
When comedy legend Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, decided they had an idea for a television series, they didn’t realize then that they would be revolutionizing the media for decades that followed. From their humble beginning to their uphill climb to establish themselves in Hollywood, at a time when Tinsel Town wasn’t entirely looking kindly to invest in a female comedian or a Cuban immigrant band leader. The pair would emerge as the power couple of their generation and go on to carve their path by launching and running Desilu Studio.
None of it would have happened had it not been for the blockbuster success of I Love Lucy. The multi-camera sitcom was considered a pipe dream until Desi Arnaz pushed the studio to try it in front of a live audience. The series ran for six seasons and co-starred Vivian Vance and William Frawley, who played Ethel and Fred Mertz, Lucy and Ricky’s landlords and best friends. Lucy would often conspire with Ethel to wiggle her way into performing alongside Ricky, a rising bandleader in the New York City nightclub circuit. The series became the most-watched show in America and continues in syndication.
Collected in one volume, I LOVE LUCY: The Complete Series, available on Blu-ray, has restored much of the classic episodes to a remarkable brilliance and includes every single episode of the original series (1951 - 1957). The Blu-ray set also captures the remastered “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” that ran from 1957 - 1960, and select episodes in the series have been colorized, specially packaged with a never-before-released episode “Lucy and the Loving Cup.” The box set includes several special features, some available here for the first time, making this complete series retrospective a true jewel.
We All Love Lucy.
The legendary Lucille Ball is a Hollywood icon determined to revolutionize her industry. She was a titan who optimized her comedic talents and coupled a business savvy that was unprecedented at the time and paved the way for many more women in comedy to shake up the status quo. Together with Desi Arnaz, the pair watched over a studio that helped pioneer the launch of several other projects and introduced to syndication Star Trek; after NBC canceled Gene Roddenberry’s series, Desilu Studios re-invigorated the sci-fi series, turning it into a pop-culture phenomenon.
With hours of some of the funniest moments in comedy captured in one comprehensive collection, I Love Lucy: The Complete Series is the perfect holiday gift item and will surely enhance any true television collector’s home library. This is where the sitcom was born, and if not for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, comedy in primetime would never have evolved into the situation series that followed from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Murphy Brown, Cheers to Friends every sitcom owes thanks to the original. We must all admit that we will always love Lucy!
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CBS Blu-ray I LOVE LUCY: The Complete Series | is available on Blu-ray and includes all-new special features, including a newly colorized episode, long-lost “flashback” scenes, audio commentary, and more. It can be purchased on Amazon for $88.99.
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