Here's Lucy: Season Six

Final Season Of Lucy's Being On Television For 23 Straight Years
At the end of Season 5 of Here's Lucy, Lucy made the decision to end the series when for the first time ever one of her shows fell out of the top ten ratings. At the last minute, CBS' President Fred Silverman convinced Lucy to change her mind and return for a 6th Season in 1973, as he felt being #15 was not too far out of the top ten. Lucy agreed, even though she also made a prior commitment to do the musical Mame that year. To get in shape for the musical Mame, after her fractured leg kept her from doing her famous physical comedy last season 5, Lucy worked out with a trainer daily. Lucy kept up with such a grueling schedule on getting her leg back in dancing shape, filming Mame and doing yet another Season 6 of Here's Lucy, that all this could not be believed from a woman 62 years old. Even though a young person couldn't keep up with Lucy's non stop schedule, Lucy's age and everyone else's age around her was beginning to show.

By the time Season 6 started filming, Lucy...

"The End of an Era!"
Well, we can thank the good Lord and MPI for putting all seasons of Lucille Ball's last official series on DVD. On December, 18, 2012 (just in time for Christmas) "Here's Lucy-The Offical 6th and Final Season" arrives on DVD format making all of Lucy's CBS sitcoms available for home viewing (Lucy's ill-fated 1986 ABC sitcom probably will never see the light of day as it was poorly produced and killed by that network and is not in demand by Lucy fans).

The final year of "Here's Lucy" (1973-1974) was a poor year for Lucille Ball as this marked the very first time one of her shows fell completely out of the Top 20 on the Nielsen charts. Fans chose "Monday Night Football" over Lucy making the series come in at a disappointing #29 on the year-end ratings. At the time it was announced by Lucy herself that she was quitting network television to pursue other projects, but the reality is CBS cancelled "Here's Lucy" due to bad ratings and attempt to attract a more urban audience...

23 Great Years of Lucy
Season Six marked the final year of Lucille Ball in a regular television series and it was truly an end of an era. Lucille Ball was the last performer from television's Golden Years to have a series in 1973-74. However, Lucy's ending is bittersweet; Lucy wanted to end her show at the end of season five (during season five Lucy's show was still a Top 15 show and Lucy was still was number one in her timeslot) but CBS' Fred Silverman convinced her to come back for another season. Lucy doing a sixth season was done more out of sentiment than desire. She was still at the height of her career and was getting ready to film Mame. Television comedy was changing with shows like All in the Family, MASH, Sanford & Son, Maude and Good Times and Lucy knew it. She always knew when to get off. The sixth season of "Here's Lucy" has many excellent episodes, i.e. "Lucy Gives Eddie Albert The Old Song and Dance," "Lucy & Joan Rivers Do Jury Duty," "Lucy and Chuck Connors," "Lucy Plays Cops &...

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