Ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls I want it known that even tho i'm doing a review for an episode that's at the very least seventy years old at this very point time that i'm not that old. I'm reviewing this episode because never seen an episode of I Love Lucy and so when I heard that there was this supposedly lost pilot episode you just know that I was going to try and track down a copy of the mythical supposedly lost episode episode in the question and so here is my review of the I Love Lucy episode that was was lost for about thirty plus years with the episode in question being called simply just "The Lost Pilot" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is Ricky Ricardo is putting on a show for some sponsors with the hope that his show will get picked up and put up and on television and so he tried everything he can to keep Lucy Ricardo which all changes the second that a clown who is supposed to appear on Ricky Ricardo's show gets himself injured and it's up to Lucy to take the clowns place in Ricky Ricardo's show. In terms of what I thought about the plot of this lost pilot episode the plot of this lost pilot episode to me felt a little bit on the weak which given that this show is a sitcom is to be expected but since this was a pilot you really do want to put your best foot forward to impress people for me at least this story simply didn't do that for me personally.
Starring in this episode is Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo , Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Jerry Hausner as Jerry. Also starring in this episode is Bob LeMond as The Voice Of The Narrator for this episode Pepito Pérez as Himself and Joanne Pérez as Herself. This kind of an obvious thing to say but i'm doing this review based off of the 2002 DVD version of the episode as mentioned above features new audio of the original narrator for I Love Lucy that being of cause Bob LeMond but i have to say that you can quite clearly tell when it's new audio and when it's old audio since in the new audio Bob LeMond just sounds tired and almost and yet in the original audio Bob LeMond just sounds the complete opposite of tired and bored.
Now then in terms of what I personally thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this particular / very episode in all honesty I honestly really did like the acting that's featured / presented to us in this particular / very episode. This is simply because all of the actors that are starring in this episode have some really good chemistry with each other and while the acting in this very episode isn't perfect by any means (which is to be expected from a pilot episode) the that's in this very episode so for the most part really freaking good in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then for those of you who aren't aware I Love Lucy was a show that aired on CBS with the show starting on Monday October 15th 1951 with the show lasting six seasons with the final episode of the show airing on Monday May 6th 1957. This show did kind of spawn a continuation show with the show in question being called simply just "The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour" with that show lasting three seasons airing between Wednesday November 6th 1957 with the final episode airing on Friday April 1st 1960.
Like most pilot episodes this pilot was never aired and was more then / most likely just shown to TV executives in a bid to sell the show. However this pilot episode unlike most other pilot episodes was lost for many decades with the episode episode basically becoming a piece of lost media for many decades that was until at the very the least the very 1990's when Joanne Pérez the wife of Pepito Pérez informed CBS that Lucille Ball had given Pepito Pérez the only copy ever made of this very episode which she only gave it to Pepito Pérez simply due to his friendship and as a show of gratitude.
This episode technically air on television since it was broadcast on Monday April 30th 1990 on CBS as part of a Lucille Ball tribute show with the show in question being hosted by the daughter of both Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz with the daughter's name being simply just Lucie Arnaz. What is interesting is that Lucille Ball was actually six months pregnant with Lucie Arnaz at the time that this very pilot episode was being shot and for the 1990 airing of this episode , some DVD releases and VHS releases of this very episode Lucie Arnaz provides the voice of the narrator that we hear at the very start of the episode.
Now then people used to say that classic Doctor Who had some very wobbly sets and while i've personally never seen classic Doctor Who episodes where the sets would wobble I could see / understand where they were coming from. However I have to say that this particular / very episode has sets that you can actually see wobbling and I get that they most likely didn't have the / a budget to build sturdy sets for this episode but considering the main set that wobbles is meant to be the home for your main characters you'd think that some form of effort would have gone into making sure that that set doesn't wobble that much since in my case at least it reminded me that I was watching a TV show and that I wasn't watching these two people just going about there very / freaking day.
This particular / very episode has a grand total running time of exactly thirty five minuets and seven seconds and well if i'm being very freaking honest here people due to the story being as thinly drawn as it is this episode feels alot longer than / then it actually is. Which is a shame because this episode is very entertaining but it just doesn't have the right story to fit this rather long running time in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then since this episode is a comedy and this episode is from a very well known and as well as very loved comedy TV sitcom that means that I gave to actually talk about the jokes that are featured / presented to us in this very / particular episode and well if i'm being very freaking honest here people the jokes that are featured / presented to us in this very episode are really freaking funny. This is because actress Lucille Ball is a genuinely funny person and so she can get a laugh just with a look or with a facial expression and so she can make all of these jokes which if they were given to any other 1950's actress / female comedian these jokes would have fallen flat but because Lucille Ball is a genuinely funny woman she makes all of the jokes in this episode really freaking funny in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall while this particular / very pilot episode was a bit rough around the edges you can defiantly that there's something special in this episode and it doesn't take a genius to see why this show was picked nor does it take a genius to see why this show is considered to be one of if not the great American sitcom ever made. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this particular / very episode in this very review and as such this episode gets a grand total score of a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this freaking very review frim the official I Love Lucy fandom wiki page , Google Images and Bleeding Cool . com. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images simply because google Images had alot of images from this episode and plus all of the images that I personally found that are currently up and on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.