I Love Lucy The Complete Series Review

I was finally able to save up the money for this much talked about box set of "I Love Lucy," which includes the much talked about "I Love Lucy Movie" which was filmed but never released.

First of all, this box set includes all 6 seasons of "I Love Lucy" plus the 3 seasons of "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," which some say is an extension of the original series after it ended.  In addition to owning this classic and much beloved series, an important reason to get this is because it includes one episode in color!  The "Lucy In Scotland" episode, you know, the one where Fred and Ethel are dressed up as a two headed dragon in one of Lucy's dream in which they want to eat her.  After watching this beautifully colorized episode I hope that someday all 179 episodes will be fully colorized such as this one. It is something else to see Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel in color after so many years in black and white.

There are many bonus features on this set, inluding an amateur 16mm film someone took of an actual "I Love Lucy" taping in Hollywood, which shows us the real color of how the Ricardos' apartment really looked. There is also footage from 1954 showing Vivian Vance win her Emmy, and Emmy win for Lucy and Desi which they turned around and shared with their famous writing team, adding that there needed to be a category for writers.

It is an expensive box set that retails over $200, but it has been on sale on some online stores, and even as low as $109 at Target during the holidays.  But it is worth every penny. The box set is housed in heart shaped-like candy box (sort of) and there are 34 discs in all.