Date de création: 16 Octobre 2008

Creation: October 16th 2008

Classement: G

Rating: G

Durée Totale: 50 min.

Total Duration: 50 min.

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CRITIQUE: Le coffret est composé de l'ensemble des émissions d'une heure de la série Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour diffusés à l'origine sur BS aux États-Unis dans les années 1957. Il s'agit de 13 éposides. La série fait suite à de nombreuses années de la comédie I Love Lucy constituée de sketches mettant en vedette Lucille ball et Desi Arnaz. Toutefois, contrairement à la série I Love Lucy, les 13 spéciaux d'une heure sont décevants et n'ont pratiquement rien à voir avec le matériel utilisé dans les séries précédentes.

Les spéciaux, d'une durée d'une heure semblent trop longs pour le style de comédie utilisé à l'époque par Lucy et Desi et le fait de tourner face à un public live met en évidence les blagues ratées et les longueurs. Malheureusement ce coffret n'aura pas réussi à me faire rire aux larmes comme pour la série I Love Lucy mais il s'agit d'une honnête tentative et surtout d'un agréable voyage dans le temps, alors que tout était tourné en direct, avec les pubs de l'époque et surtout, la réaction d'un public fort différent de celui d'aujourd'hui.

VERSION ANGLAISE (d'après Wikipedia)

The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour is a 1957-60 CBS television situation comedy. The show was more a collection of occasional specials than a regular series. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series.[1] Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show during the summers of 1962-67, after which it went into syndication.

Description and evaluation
During the final season of I Love Lucy, the Ricardos and Mertzes moved to Westport, Connecticut, which reflected the growth of the suburbs throughout America. The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour was also set in the new suburban locale, only at a one-hour length (note: the first episode, "Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana," originally ran 75 minutes), and with guest stars such as Ann Sothern, Rudy Vallee, Tallulah Bankhead, Fred MacMurray and June Haver, Betty Grable and Harry James, Fernando Lamas, Maurice Chevalier, Danny Thomas and his Make Room for Daddy family, Red Skelton, Paul Douglas, Ida Lupino and Howard Duff, Milton Berle, Robert Cummings, and (in the final episode, called "Lucy Meets the Moustache") Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams.
The show ended at almost the same time as the marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. In fact, there were many episodes in which constant bickering between Lucy and Desi was noted. In the penultimate episode of the series, titled "The Ricardos Go to Japan", Lucy appeared on screen red-eyed due to her crying during the arguments between herself and Desi. In the making of the last episode, Lucy and Desi did not speak directly to each other except when their characters were required to do so. The series ended April 1, 1960, and their marriage ended May 4, 1960. (Actually, the last episode was filmed March 2, with the divorce proceedings starting the next day.)
Critics have generally regarded the series as a rather pallid continuation of I Love Lucy, with not enough of the original show's brisk pace and memorable sketchwork. Still, many fans enjoy the series due to the cast, which remained intact from the original. The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour was occasionally seen on nostalgia outlets like the TV Land cable network or in thirty-minute installments under the title We Love Lucy, where stations run it directly after the sixth season of I Love Lucy. This allows them to have 26 additional "episodes" that run like a seventh season.
The series was released on DVD on March 13, 2007 as a complete set.
The show is memorialized in the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York. (See also SaveLucyDesiCenter.org.)
I Love Lucy Season 7, 8, 9 (The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour) DVD.
I Love Lucy Season 7, 8, 9 (The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour) DVD.

Regular cast
Actor/Character
Lucille Ball Lucy Ricardo
Desi Arnaz Ricky Ricardo
Vivian Vance Ethel Mertz
William Frawley Fred Mertz
Keith Thibodeaux credited as "Richard Keith" Little Ricky Ricardo