CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
CBS-TV; Sunday, November 28, 1976 at 8:00PM
Featuring Eddie Albert, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, George Burns, Carol Burnett, Richard Burton, Johnny Carson, William Frawley, Gale Gordon, William Holden, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Dean Martin, Harpo Marx, Red Skelton, Jimmy Stewart, Danny Thomas, Vivian Vance, John Wayne (not all appear in new footage, some are only in clips)

"CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years" was a two-hour retrospective of Lucy's 25 years on the Tiffany network.  Desi Arnaz and Vivian Vance.  Clips include "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" (I Love Lucy), "Lucy is Enciente" (ILL), "Job Switching" (ILL), "The Operetta" (ILL), "Milton Berle Hides Out at the Ricardos" (The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour), "Lucy Meets the Burtons" (Here's Lucy), "Lucy Goes to Alaska" (LDCH), "Lucy and John Wayne" (The Lucy Show), "Harpo Marx" (ILL) and "L.A. at Last" (ILL).  At the end of the special, Lucy is given a special award by Jimmy Stewart.  The tribute drew spectacular ratings, but Variety commented that because the "two-hour special was produced by Lucille Ball's production company...the format [was] a little awkward."  This was Lucy's only television special during the 1976-77 season.

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