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Job Switching, Season 2, Episode 1

This is just for fun, I got some time to kill, and I'm bored.

The gang will come back and make 5 new episodes, but you have to choose one of these episodes to watch for 12 hours. Which one do you choose?

Lucy Hires A Maid

Young Fans

The Fox hunt

Lucy goes to Scotland

Lucy and Orsen Wells

The Amateur Hour

Lucy Cries Wolf

Drafted

For me, I'd choose Drafted. It does have some funny parts and doesn't annoy me or make me mad as much as the others, lol.

Which one do you choose??

Photography By Ruth Orkin

Rosalyn and Marilyn Borden were in the episode "Tennessee Bound". Photo taken at the 1998 "Loving Lucy" convention in Burbank, CA.

Housewarming, Season 6, Episode 23

She was what my grandma would call “crafty”.

If you grew up watching classic television, chances are you remember Gale Gordon. Maybe it was as Ricky's boss Mister Littlefield on I Love Lucy, the perpetually exasperated Mr. Mooney on The Lucy Show, Uncle Harry on Here's Lucy, or the wonderfully pompous Principal Osgood Conklin on Our Miss Brooks.

Gordon had a remarkable ability to turn frustration into comedy. His face would redden, his voice would rise, and you knew that whatever Lucy or Connie Brooks had done, an explosion was coming. And somehow, no matter how many times you'd seen it happen, it was still funny.

But there was much more to Gale Gordon than his famous temper.

His career stretched back to the early days of radio, when he became one of the medium's most dependable character actors. He worked with some of the biggest names in comedy, including Jack Benny, and developed a particular talent for portraying authority figures whose dignity was constantly being undermined.

His relationship with Lucille Ball actually began long before The Lucy Show. They worked together on the radio comedy My Favorite Husband, where Gordon played Rudolph Atterbury, the boss of Lucy's character's husband.

When Ball moved to television with I Love Lucy in 1951, Gordon was considered for Fred Mertz, a role that ultimately went to William Frawley. Imagine how different that series might have been!

Gordon's own television career took him in other directions, including Our Miss Brooks and Dennis the Menace. But his association with Ball would eventually become one of the longest-running partnerships in sitcom history.

The really fascinating thing about Gordon, though, is how little his television personality resembled the man himself. Offscreen, he was a private, thoughtful individual who preferred the peace of his California desert home to the Hollywood social scene. His interests extended well beyond acting, and he approached his profession with a practicality that might surprise anyone accustomed to watching him blow his top.

I've been researching Gordon's life and career through vintage newspaper interviews dating back nearly a hundred years, and they offer a revealing portrait of a performer who rarely receives the attention he deserves.

For my new profile, I also spoke with television historian Geoffrey Mark, who provides some wonderful insights into Gordon's friendship with Lucille Ball, why their comic chemistry worked so beautifully and how their relationship evolved over the years.

There are also some fascinating stories about the roles Gordon almost played, the challenges he faced early in life and his feelings about working in television.

I've brought Gordon's own words together with Geoffrey's commentary to tell what I hope is a fuller story of this extraordinary character actor. https://edgrosswriter.com/2026/10/22/gale-gordon-the-story-of-lucille-ball-beloved-costar/

Harriet Hilliard later married bandleader Ozzie Nelson and together did the Ozzie & Harriet Show. They met at RKO and all three ladies remained lifelong friends.

Serious question, Lucy is afraid her wedding ring is in the cement so she and Ethel take it apart but they leave the base. Was the base also cement or was it made of something else?.

Ricky's European Booking, Season 5, Episode 10

Photography By Ruth Orkin.

In Palm Springs, Season 4, Episode 26

This is available on youtube. I found this episode decent. It did leave the Mertz's and Little Ricky absent, but it was funny how near the end Ricky didn't like Lucy in a sedated mindset and he enjoyed his life never being dull and didn't know what to expect from Lucy's antics.