Lucille Ball is definitely the First Lady of television comedy. In her life after her "I Love Lucy" years where the show was both a masterpiece and set standards and broke conventional rules, she returns as Lucy Carmichael, a divorced mother of two, and a secretary to bank Vice President, Theodore J. Mooney, played by longtime friend, Gale Gordon. Vivian Vance returned as her best friend Vivian not Ethel. The show is set in Los Angeles where there are plenty of celebrity guest stars like John Wayne, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Elizabeth Taylor, Carol Burnett etc., just to name a few. Ball is still in her element with physical comedy like babysitting three monkeys. If you thought Lucy lost it, she never did. She has perfect chemistry with Gale Gordon. They had worked together on radio and later in television. In fact, Gordon was Ball 's choice for Fred Mertz in "I Love Lucy" but William Frawley was the perfect choice for that role.
Review of The Lucy Show
