"Люсидің қайтымы"

Television series (1968 1974)

Here's Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The series co starred her long time comedy partner Gale Gordon and her real life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. It was broadcast on CBS from 1968 to 1974. It was Ball's third network sitcom, following I Love Lucy (1951–57) and The Lucy Show (1962–68).

Though The Lucy Show was still popular during the 1967–68 season, finishing in the top five of the ratings (at #2), Ball opted to end that series at the end of that season, as there were enough episodes for syndicated reruns, and as Ball had sold Desilu Productions (which owned and produced The Lucy Show) to Gulf & Western. Ball, who had stated that she did not wish to continue to star in a show that she no longer owned, also made it known that she did not wish to continue to star in a show unless her two children agreed to co star, and thus an entirely new show was written for this purpose. Doris Singleton, who played Carolyn Appleby on I Love Lucy, has said she was originally going to be a series regular on the show as Harry Carter's secretary, but the idea was dropped when Lucy brought her children on board with the show. Here's Lucy was produced by Ball's newly created production company, Lucille Ball Productions. Desilu's successor Paramount Television co produced the first season, but sold its stake in the show to Ball afterwards. Unlike most sitcoms of the era, Here's Lucy was filmed before a live audience; standard practice at the time was to film an episode on a closed set and add a laugh track during post production. However, a laugh track was still used to fill any gaps in audience reactions or missed punchlines. The live format was requested by Ball herself, as she believed that she performed better in the presence of an audience. The title sequence animation was by Jim Danforth.

The program's premise changed from The Lucy Show. Unlike Ball's character on the previous program — Lucy Carmichael, who originally lived in New York and later moved to California — in her third sitcom, Ball's character of Lucy Hinkley Carter was already living in Los Angeles, and once again bore a name containing "ar" in tribute to her ex husband Desi Arnaz. As a result, the fifth season saw a season long storyline where in the character of Lucy Carter also had a broken leg. Both Ball and Lucy Carter spent much of the season in a wheelchair and full leg cast. According to Geoffrey Mark Fidelman, author of The Lucy Book, this was the point where the "Lucy" character was "finally allowed to age." Ball's injury and recovery severely limited her ability to perform physical comedy during the season. This gave the other members of the cast, such as Lucie Arnaz and featured players Mary Jane Croft and Vanda Barra, a chance to shine. It also gave Gale Gordon's character of Harry a chance to be more sympathetic and affectionate toward Lucy, which had been completely missing since Gordon first joined the cast of The Lucy Show nine years earlier. A thaw in the relationship between Lucy and Harry accelerated, so that they could interact more as friendly in laws rather than just as antagonistic co workers. Despite Ball's injury, physical comedy was never completely eliminated. During the recovery, there were small gags that Ball could safely perform with little to no general injury or harm to her leg. As her recovery progressed, Ball was able to take on more physical comedy routines. However, the slapstick aspects were still toned down for the remainder of the series in comparison to earlier seasons. By the spring of 1973, Here's Lucy had fallen to #15 in the ratings ─ the first time that a series starring Lucille Ball had fallen out of the top ten. Unsure of whether she wanted to continue, Ball and Gale Gordon filmed a season finale without a studio audience present. In that installment, Harry's business was sold and he and Lucy reminisced together (using flashbacks) about their various adventures together. At the end of the episode, they both leave the office. Lucy then leaves a sign that says "closed temporarily", then she looks at the camera and winks. At the last minute, CBS president Fred Silverman convinced Ball to return for a sixth season. On February 27, 1974, The New York Times reported that Ball had officially told CBS she would not continue the series. Lucie Arnaz chose to leave the series after being cast in the national tour of Seesaw, while Ball was launching a film comeback with Mame. Without either of her children, and with enough episodes for syndication, Ball made the decision to end the series. CBS was also in the process of reinventing its image, having already replaced much of their "old guard" television product with more contemporary fare such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, and M*A*S*H. Except for Gunsmoke, which would remain for one more season, Ball was the last performer from TV's classic age who still had a weekly series at the beginning of 1974. Between 1974 and 1978, still under contract, Ball would star in seven television specials for CBS.

Here's Lucy was not initially offered in syndication when the series ended in 1974 because both I Love Lucy, which was being distributed by Viacom at the time, and The Lucy Show, which was being distributed by Paramount, were still popular in reruns and it was felt that introducing another Lucy series might undermine the success the other two shows were enjoying. This would also have put Ball in the position of competing against her former series and former production company for ratings, since she no longer had control of either I Love Lucy or The Lucy Show after selling Desilu Productions to Paramount’s parent company Gulf + Western. The show was originally offered internationally, first by Paramount Television, then by John Pearson International, a company formed by ex Desilu/Paramount employee John Pearson, who controls foreign sales of the series. CBS retained the rights to run the show in daytime. CBS Daytime reran the series weekday mornings from May 2 to November 4, 1977, in the same time slot that they had previously rerun The Lucy Show from 1968 to 1972, and before that (1959–67) had at various times rerun I Love Lucy. Finally, in the fall of 1981, Here's Lucy was put into broadcast syndication first by Telepictures, who had acquired the rights to the series in 1980, and in turn the rights were later transferred to Warner Bros. Television Distribution (which acquired Telepictures' successor, Lorimar Telepictures). Here's Lucy was not successful in syndication and was withdrawn in 1985. Largely forgotten in the late 1980s and early 1990s and rarely carried by the cable networks, reruns of the series were returned to air by Pax TV in 1998. Cozi TV began airing the show on August 11, 2014. The show's current distributor is Paul Brownstein Productions. The program was shown in Britain by the BBC fairly soon after it was made, in the Saturday tea time (mid afternoon) slot, but it has not been shown often since. It was seen in Australia on the GO! channel from 31 May 2010 until November 2010. For many years prior to that on Australian television, the show was distributed by Pacific Telecasters Pty. Ltd before being later transferred to Warner Bros. Television. It was a perennial favourite seen on the Nine Network from 1968 to 1988 and in 1992 on ABC Television. Prior to GO!, the show screened on Ovation. As of 2018, the show is available on Amazon Prime Video in Canada and the USA. As of 2019, it is also available on Pluto in the United States, and Tubi.

On August 17, 2004, Shout! Factory and Sony Music Entertainment released Here's Lucy: Best Loved Episodes from the Hit Television Series. The four disc set features 24 original episodes from the series presented uncut and digitally remastered from original color negatives for superior quality, as well as several bonus features. On March 25, 2014, MPI Home Video—under license from the copyright holders, "Desilu, Too", and Lucille Ball Productions, Inc.—released Here's Lucy: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. In Region 4, Madman Entertainment has released all six seasons on DVD in Australia.