I Love Lucy - The Complete Series Blu-ray (1951-1959)

[moviebuff75]

Yes.

[hedliniv]

Any indications if English subtitles are included?


It has been hit or miss with Paramount and I really need them!

[javy]

I like that artwork. Same as the DVD set. Would be cool if it had an outer slipbox like the DVD.

[LT.Schaffer]

Finally

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by jwk94

Wait the original sets had commercials?

I believe they had the option to either watch just the episode, or the full broadcast version of the episode, with the vintage commercials that ran during the original broadcast, correct?

[KieranOC]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

I believe they had the option to either watch just the episode, or the full broadcast version of the episode, with the vintage commercials that ran during the original broadcast, correct?

Correct. The show was sponsored by Phillip Morris.

[thejej]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

I believe they had the option to either watch just the episode, or the full broadcast version of the episode, with the vintage commercials that ran during the original broadcast, correct?

Yeah! That is correct. Some episodes allow you to watch the Rerun “Flashback”
openings that were shown in the second season—when Lucille Ball was pregnant. This includes the commercials for those as well.

Overall an incredibly roboust set for the first two seasons—and Lucy-Desi Comedy Hours. It is a shame we won’t get it for seasons 3-6, but I am happy we at least have some sort of BluRay set coming. Maybe we will get them eventually—if even a decade or so down the road.

[leethompson]

I hope the disc packaging isn't as fragile as the DVD release.

[MifuneFan]

Amazon page is up, but not live yet:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHYR7S3D

[GenPion]

Growing up, I used to watch I Love Lucy every night before bed for a long time - I'm sure I saw at least several seasons of the series but I doubt I have ever seen it all. Looking forward to the complete box set.

[milojthatch]

Originally Posted by Diditagain

Finally! And that list price is a steal.

I wonder if the 16 previously colorized episodes from the "Lucy in Color" DVD set will appear on this set as bonus content?

I agree. That price make it more likely I pick it up day 1.

Originally Posted by thejej

I am Facebook friends with a former assistant of Lucille Ball’s, who helps with these sets. He let me know the only color episode that will be new to this set is the Loving Cup episode. Here is the post for your visibility.

It's sad the other colorized episodes will not be part of this. Would be nice to still get them on Blu-ray down the road.

Originally Posted by Gacivory

I wish we would stop with the massive sets and instead go back to individual season cases, but I’d be lying if it stopped me from buying to day 1!

They started releasing this show that way. I think people who collect TV on disc learned back in the DVD days to go for complete series or bust. Too many shows started getting released on DVD as season sets and then stopped before the show was released. Some of these eventually finished, but there are many that did not.

Originally Posted by Snl40boi

Question the season 2 blu ray had the I love Lucy movie included as an extra. Will that also be included in this new set?

I'd like to know that as well. What extras from the previous DVD set and individual Blu-ray sets are we missing on this one? I might not get rid of my individual sets before I know.

[rdodolak]

Damn, a studio that knows how to use an actual Blu-ray case for their complete series unlike Warners.

[Snl40boi]

Originally Posted by milojthatch

I agree. That price make it more likely I pick it up day 1.



It's sad the other colorized episodes will not be part of this. Would be nice to still get them on Blu-ray down the road.



They started releasing this show that way. I think people who collect TV on disc learned back in the DVD days to go for complete series or bust. Too many shows started getting released on DVD as season sets and then stopped before the show was released. Some of these eventually finished, but there are many that did not.



I'd like to know that as well. What extras from the previous DVD set and individual Blu-ray sets are we missing on this one? I might not get rid of my individual sets before I know.

I didn’t know I had the movie till one day I saw it as an extra on the season 2 blu ray.

[goathead1]

Paramount's MacGyver blu-ray set had identical discs for season 1 as the 2018 individually release. I suspect that Paramount will do the same thing here with the previously released seasons 1 & 2.

[MifuneFan]

Thomas J. Watson, a producer of the previous Blu-ray season releases posted details of the new set on his FB:

https://www.facebook.com/thomas.j.wa...SnTAzRkN1Zx6yl

At long last … Lucy! I am delighted to announce that Paramount Home Entertainment will release “I LOVE LUCY: THE COMPLETE SERIES on Blu-ray” on November 5th, 2024.

This exciting new package is a bit of a mixed-bag: included are seasons 1 and 2 – exactly as Jonathan Angus and I produced them for CBS a decade ago—plus the last seven seasons (seasons 3-6 of the half-hour series and the three seasons of hour-long Lucy-Desi specials).

Jonathan (our restoration editor and video master-craftsman) and I – and a team of Lucy fans and film collectors – pooled our talents and collections this past summer to come up with what we consider to be “the ultimate” Lucy Blu-ray release.

*** Joining the regular black-and-white shows this time is the newly colorized/never before released “Lucy and the Loving Cup” episode from 1957. ***

Also on board are three never-before-released-on-video “flashback” scenes (originally prepared by Desilu to lead into prime-time network repeats) and Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance’s appearance in the CBS fall preview special “Eye on CBS,” promoting the network’s 1959 fall schedule.

Last but not least, the 13 Lucy-Desi specials are being presented here substantially AS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST, with original Ford and Westinghouse opening and closing graphics, original cast commercials, and missing scenes that had been edited out over the years for reruns. Watching these shows, it feels like the late 1950s all over again!!!

(Before you ask: Most of the seasons 3-6 half-hour shows will have the standard heart-on-satin openings and closings – but not the original broadcast versions. And yes, many of the special features found on the DVD releases have been retained here – but in higher resolution, of course! For example, the “I Love Lucy” pilot has been remastered from the original 35mm kinescope!)
It’s a beautiful set honoring one of TV’s all-time-favorite series!
Special thanks to Angelo Dante, Larry Pane, Stu Shostak and Dan Wingate for helping to make this release possible!


(Photos: what Ricky Ricardo might call “snick previews”…)

Credit to Jlouisbarett

[milojthatch]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Thomas J. Watson, a producer of the previous Blu-ray season releases posted details of the new set on his FB:

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Credit to Jlouisbarett

That's what I wanted to know. Still hope we get the other colorized episodes on blu-ray one day, but for now this is awesome!

[Shane Rollins]

[SpacemanDoug]

It's about time

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

minus 11 years.

[lilmanjs]

I must own this! I'm glad I held off all these years from buying the first two seasons on their own!