Memorial Day weekend 2024 has arrived, and with it, the unofficial end of spring and beginning of summer... although, in many parts of the US, the weather is not cooperating.
As we continue to look back at the 1973-1974 season, were spending time in May to pay tribute to Lucille Ball and her television series Here's Lucy. One of the milestone events that took place during the '73-'74 season was the ending of Lucille Ball's remarkable run on network television with CBS. Her third series, Here's Lucy, had now run for six seasons, and as she will state in this interview, six seasons was in her mind and plan just about right for her series. As it turns out, all three series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy ran six seasons (I Love Lucy running a bit longer in its monthly hour long format).
This interview with Ms. Ball on The Dick Cavett Show on March 7, 1974 is a real charming event... she is in good spirits and at a point in her life where she's comfortable talking about a wide range of topics, both professional and personal. At this point, she had worked on CBS with her three Lucy series from 1951 to 1974 (with a two season break in the early 1960s). A remarkable achievement.
We've segmented this interview between Lucille and Dick Cavett into five video clips, and in these clips she talks about her television series, marriages to Desi Arnaz and Gary Morton, her children, fame, the pros and cons of being a liberated woman and business executive, and life, love and her craft.
A fascinating look at a television legend who was truly becoming at legend in her own time by the mid 1970s.
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Enjoy. Parts 2 through 5 of this interview will be presented here throughout this upcoming Memorial Day weekend and upcoming week as we come to the end of May and last weeks of spring.