jimmy garrett played lucy's son on the lucy show.
jimmy garrett played lucy's son on the lucy show.
who played lucy's son on the lucy show?
jimmy garrett
the next two seasons featured many stars making guest appearances as themselves conducting business at lucy's bank. for the last two seasons, vivian vance made three guest appearances in her role as vivian bagley (except it was now vivian bunson, as her character had gotten married again when lucy carmichael moved to california). in all three episodes in which viv visited lucy, there were passing references to their former life in danfield as well as viv's new husband, but no mention was made about any of their children. in the fifth-year episode "lucy gets caught up in the draft", lucy carmichael receives a letter from her son, who is away in military school. in that installment, he is called jimmy, not jerry. during the filming of that particular show, ball was constantly being corrected by her crew saying that the son's name was jerry and that jimmy garrett had played that part and that was the reason for her being confused. however, ball refused to listen and so the error stayed in and that was the last reference to lucy carmichael's son. for the 1966–1967 season, gale gordon was nominated for an emmy award as best supporting actor in a comedy series, but lost to don knotts. maury thompson received a nomination for best directing in a comedy series and is the only lucy director ever to receive a nomination in the directing category. after eleven years, ball was finally awarded an emmy as "best actress in a comedy series" (she had previously won two, as "best comedienne" in 1953 and as "best actress in a continuing performance" in 1956 for "i love lucy").
the lucy show
in 1962, ball began a six-year run with "the lucy show", followed immediately in 1968 by six more years on a third sitcom, "here's lucy", finally ending her regular appearances on cbs in 1974. both "the lucy show" and "here's lucy" included vance as recurring characters named "viv" (vivian bagley bunson on "the lucy show" and vivian jones on "here's lucy"), so named because she was tired of being recognized on the street and addressed as "ethel". vance was a regular during the first three seasons of "the lucy show" but continued to make guest appearances through the years on "the lucy show", and on "here's lucy". in 1977, vance and ball were reunited one last time in the cbs special, "lucy calls the president", which co-starred gale gordon (whom ball had known for very many years by 1977 and who had appeared as a regular on her television shows since 1963; becoming even more prominent once vivian vance left "the lucy show" in 1965.)
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