Details

Release year: 1964

Storyline

A woman studio president chases after a famous comedian to convince him to appear with her in her first starring television special.

Top credits

Directors

Jack Donohue

Writers

Cast

Lucille Ball — Bonnie Blakely
Bob Hope — Bill Blakley
Jack Weston — Cash
Max Showalter — Walter

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Did you know

• During contractual negotiations with CBS for a second season of "The Lucy Show," Lucille Ball signed for $30,000 to co-star in "The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour" to be aired in the spring of 1964.

• This special was broadcast in color, one of Lucy's first major appearances in color on television, preempted "The Ed Sullivan Show" in its normal Sunday time slot. Although "The Lucy Show" had started filming in color in the fall of 1963, CBS declined to air the series in color until September 1965.

• On ABC, the second half hour of "The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour" was up against an installment of "Arrest and Trial" that also starred Jack Weston. Meanwhile, NBC ran a show starring another funny redhead, Imogene Coca, in "Grindl." The special's lead-in was a show, for which Sherwood Schwartz had been brought on as a script consultant, was "My Favorite Martian."