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''The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour'' was 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 New Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show'''''. It was the successor to the classic comedy, '' I Love Lucy '', and featured the same major cast members. 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 Ricardo family 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 60-minute length 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'' is 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. .]] REGULAR CAST EPISODES EXTERNAL LINKS
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