Terrible sixth season episode of the long-running "The Lucy Show" has Lucy and Viv beset with car trouble and stranded on the roadside; Lucy convinces a grumbling Viv to walk two miles to the nearest house to use the phone (I hope their heels held up!), only to find out it's the home of movie star Joan Crawford. Since La Crawford is having her house redone, there's no furniture downstairs, leading the girls to believe she's fallen on hard times. It's tough deciding which is worse here: the flimsy premise, the second-half featuring the cast (plus Joan!) putting on a musical show for charity, or Crawford's slurring, stupefied performance. The fashion runway costumes (particularly Vivian Vance's coat in the last scene) are far too extravagant for a program like this, and Lucy never gets a funny line--those are all given to Gale Gordon.
Review of Lucy and the Lost Star
