I Married Joan S1-01 "Pilot" 10/15/1952
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2011
- "Pilot" Director: Philip Rapp, Writers: Arthur Stander, Phil Sharp. This is the very first episode. Those of you familiar with the normal set will see a difference in the decoration of their house. Jim Backus seems to be having the time of his life in this one. It opens with Judge Stevens giving counsel in chambers to a couple (Shirley Mitchell and Hal March) who are about to get a divorce. He regales them with the story of how he met Joan, then a fledgling airline "hostess." Joan comes up with some very funny physical shtick on the rocking plane. The second half finds Joan attempting to conceal the purchase of a Persian lamb coat from Brad. Hope Emerson plays her neighbor, Minerva. In a frantic move, Joan hides the coat by putting it in the top-loading deep freeze. This episode is actually funnier than even we remember it, with lots of clever business and an almost improvised easy-breezy feel between Joan and Jim. Joan sings "Way Down Upon the Swanee River" accompanied by Jim on air banjo. Sweet.
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Joan Davis had it all......best comedienne, slapstick expert, acrobatic stunts and had the funniest delivery of lines and facial expressions that were priceless.
Joan Davis and Eve Arden were great BUT Imogene Coca was the best...
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Joan was a great comedian! I loved this show and I wish she had more opportunity to keep her wonderful, comedic style before the public!
Linda! IMJ is "before the public" now!!!
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I wish the show had been on longer and that she lived longer than 53.
@@bobbeaumont324 Exactly--she died way too young!
Brings back the good ol' days. I remember watching these as a kid. I loved this show. Thanks for sharing.
Same here...
Joan was the best, she lead the way in my opinion.
So this show ran on tv the same time as I love Lucy. I wonder if her and this show was overshadowed by Lucy. I’ve never seen this show or even heard of it, so wondering if that’s why. She is funny! She does a lot of physical comedy like Lucy did
I remember watching "I married Joan" in the 1950s. I thought that the show was brilliant!
Thanks for watching!
I remember watching it also in the 50's. I'm 75 now and watching it again.
OMG! This woman was the funniest comedian I ever saw. She blew Lucy away.
I agree with you. Lucy is unfunny and boring. Joan was an actress AND a comedienne. There is a difference. Lucy was forced. Joan knew the comedy ropes.
U serious ly must be jokingg
She Cpied all Lucy's mannerisms and copied , nearly every e pisode nearly exact to O a tee
Joan is funny though
How did she blow Lucy away,when she copied her
Go to sleep
@@cherylfielding8592 Joan Davis was a comedian before Lucy but they were contemporaries who had different approaches to comedy. I just thought Joan was much funnier.
I love these. Joan was brilliant. I read one of Joan's fave comediennes was Judy Holliday. Her movies are wonderful, too.
Stay safe, everyone.
I love retro shows. I never heard of this one. I just don't understand why it didn't do better. This is really funny.
Same. These were real professionals. They could crack entire families into laughing and having a good time, all without profanity.
The crudeness and sloppy work of modern day comedians is disgusting. Thank goodness for RUclips so we can watch and discover these old, classic shows.
I enjoyed this show as a young child!
We're so happy to offer it here. Thanks for watching!
Me, too...
As a kid in the 60s I loved this show Joan was willing to do anything for a laugh
Amazing! Nobody seems to be paying for those pillows. Good, happy fun.
Free of charge in those days! Thanks for watching!
My friend, Doug West`s mother was also into comedy at this time...Her name was Eve Arden..
Eve Arden...what a fantastic talent! I actually have a friend who is a dead ringer for Eve. And, oddly enough, she has a similar sense of humor. Both wonderful women.
jim galati Eve Arden was very underrated. She could do so many things, and it seem like she was a lovely lady. I felt so sad when she died. I wish she could have lived longer!
jim galati wow!
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Ms White has videos from several of her series on RUclips: Life With Elizabeth is kind of fun because Betty seems to have written much of her lines and she liked to use a lot of puns.
A Date With The Angels comes next (late 50s) and is a bit better developed than Elizabeth...perhaps too developed as the lines are a bit flat though the situations are bordering on unbelievably ridiculous. Then of course Ms White appears on Password clips, as well as clips from Carol Burnett.
I loved Eve Arden-so did my mom-good actress
Thanks for sharing classic TV. Joan rocked.
gurucarcar she was too cool!
Thank you so much! If you started viewing us, I would suggest "Acrobats", "Joan's Curiosity," "Talent Scout" , "Furniture Quick-Changes" and "Bombay Duck." These are among our favorites. Hope you enjoy all the episodes.
There are only a handful of episodes left to still post . If you have them I wish you would post them ! I so love this show and joan davis !
@@scottrohan4012 Hi Scott, I wish I could. I have them all, but for some unknown reason I have been barred from sharing any more! It's not the usual admonishment. Usually they give you warning but they literally cancelled my account. I think I was hacked and I don't want to risk them deleting what I've already posted if I make anything of it. I know the man who currently has the rights and was planning on offering a boxed set and he assured me that it wasn't him. I had permission. So I'm at a loss. Heartbroken even, although I'm grateful that I was able to share what I have shared so far. The bad quality of the prints showing on amazon is disgraceful. There is a station called Decades that was broadcasting pristine prints for awhile (from the gentleman I spoke of), but they stopped. Keep tabs on that station in case they show them again. But there's another tv station currently broadcasting really poor quality prints. I love Joan too. Her show to me was a boon growing up. Thanks so much for your concern.
@@ciroandsteven2407 I wish there was a way u could just sell me a complete box set of all the episodes that you got
Fabulous show. I remember watching I MARRIED JOAN as a young kid and thought it was so entertaining. It still is. Thanks for posting these gems. Nothing compares to Joan Davis these days
It seems Joan Davis was a cross between Danny Kaye and Lucille Ball.
Joan Davis was her own woman; one of the funniest people ever to perform.
More like ginger Rogers and Mary Wickes
It is not good to compare among them as they all were great in their own merits
She kind of reminds me of Ann Marie.
Peter Thomas the announcer at the beginning. The most used and recognized voice from 1950'ish post WWII, up through 2005'ish. What a pro he was.
Isn't Peter Thomas most famous for narrating "Forensic Files"? One of the truly great "voices"!
That’s Peter Thomas?
Having only heard him talk from the 90’s forward, I don’t recognize the voice.
@@bobbeaumont324 It's hard to tell with just a few words. But I recorded Peter throughout the mid '70s to the mid '80s for commercials and medical training books. But it sounds like him.
What a pro he is.
We appreciate your comments, and we agree with you completely. There's room for all of these great female comedians. We respect them all and their individual contributions. Thanks very much, All best from the JDC.
I just adore it.i don't know why it's not on TV today I love Joan.
JoanDavisChannel That couple are me and my ex Wildebeast the Dummy!
The divorcing husband was Hal March, best known for hosting the "$64,000 Question". The delivery boy was Charles Smith, best known for playing "Dizzy Stevens" in the "Henry Aldrich" series for Paramount.
Hal was in an episode of I Love Lucy. I believe he died quite young.
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He also played the husband (Harry Morton) of Blanche, Gracie Allen's best friend and neighbor on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. I'm not sure if he played Blanche's (Bea Benadaret's) first husband as she would have 3 or 4 over the course of the show.
Let us not forget his signature role of Quincy Magoo. This year, incidentally, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Gilmore Backus.
For Backus , Mr. Magoo and Thurston Howell III were both signature roles . A rare feat for most actors
Magoo's first name was Quncy? Thanks, I never knew! ...I am watching Joan's brilliant performance in "Hold That Co-Ed" (1938), which I first saw 47 years ago in high school film class. I love her!
Rebel Without a Cause on the horizon!
This is one of my favorites show Joan is the best and very funny ☺️
WOW this was actually pretty hilarious. Catch you later, gonna visit episode 2.
I Love Lucy was based loosely on the radio show "My Favorite Husband", which Lucille Ball had been doing since 1948.
I subscribed love u!
Yes Joan Davis Has 2 Stars on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame"! for Motion Picture & Radio also!She did have a Heart condition that got severe starting in the 2nd to 3rd seasons! &unfortunately died in May 1961& also her shows and any chances of them being aired were stopped as out of respect it was felt disrespectful to have people responding with laughter to a dead person etc,plus her daughter played her younger sister in this series Etc all very interesting! & historically important to TV History
Back when flight attendants were known as either hostesses or stewardesses.
Juliaflo Who wrote this? What a genious to think it up
Uhh, I think they had a few flight stewards too?
I Love Lucy premiered on CBS October 15, 1951, a whole year before Joan premiered.
CapricornDavo Her show was to rival bad deal,Lucy was a juggernaut
I loved I Married Joan !!!!!!!!
I remember this being aired in the late fifties/early sixties and I was between 9 and 10 years old. I was so excited as I was a fan of I Love Lucy. I remember remarking about how I enjoyed them both.
Always loved the chorale background music. It gave an odd but distinctively "1950s" feel to the show. There was that one show that featured something like "Little Brown Jug" by the chorale at the beginning or end of a scene, and it was delightful!
I haven't seen this in a long time.
@ 17:05 "JOAN! Hand't you better answer the door"? " NO! Did it say something"?(laughter!
Yes. This episode is full of really funny stuff. We restored the scene in the kitchen where she hides the coat in the freezer. The prints up to now have cut from "If you harm one hair on the Perisan's leg..." directly to the bedroom scene. The kitchen gave Joan and Jim a great chance to work off each other.
I hadn't ever heard of Joan Davis before tonight..........but I must say that she is hilarious😄😄😄😄😄
She was great in the movies too! She made about 50 movies before I Married Joan.
Hard to believe this premiered almost 60 years ago to the day.
70 years now. These characters are missed.
That Leg of Lamb skit was a gag of laughter(smile)
btw: I LOVE THIS SHOW! I just saw 'Tailspin' (1939) and Joan steals every scene she's in!
bitzofdataz Joan tended to do that. She knew her scenes were usually brief so she felt she had to "sneak in and make good." Thanks for watching!
bitzofdataz She's in a movie with Abbott an Costello and I think lon chaney! It was scary funnyHal March is way funny and cool!
When Hal March is sitting in the living room telling Joan about how he slugged his wife and he showed her in the news paper where a man flattened his wifes head for cold toast! THIS pilot would have been the last show today (laughter)
Times have changed certainly for the better!
Yes society has progressed to the point and realized that punching women is not actually very funny. I grew up in those times and there wasn't a day went by when I wasn't reminded of how I was the "wrong gender".
@@starquant Well at least everyone back then realized there were only 2 genders.
@@dustinz9487 But to the empowerment of one and the eternal determent of the "other". That's nothing to be proud of.
I used to watch this show as a young boy in the 1950's. Joan Davis was a very funny woman. Someone commented that her shows were stopped out of respect to her dying. I agree with that sentiment. Contrast that with the heartless slobs we have today. I remember when Freddie Prinz killed himself. His show, "Chico and The Man" ran as though nothing happened.My wife and I initially stared in total disbelief at our television sets, tuned to NBC. I believe this is when this lack of respect started. We are a heartless society in many respects, yet, we can open our hearts to things that don't make a lick of sense!
I don't know. In LA, this show ran in syndication and my mother would say "You know she (Joan Davis) is dead." I remember thinking "I don't want to watch a show with a dead actress as the lead - so I switched to 'I Love Lucy'."
@@terrasoars5006 Just because the performer is deceased is no reason not to run their films or TV shows. It is because of the magic of film that they live on. After all, I LOVE LUCY is still on and the entire cast is dead now.
No they pulled the shows temporarily because of a legal dispute among her family after her death ,as to who would get the rerun payments.
@@RayPointerChannel Little Ricky is still alive!!
I’m so happy to see that this has been uploaded. It was one of my mom’s favorite shows; she and I used to watch the reruns on cable when I was a teenager. Great show! ❤
a great series, in the great tradition of american comedy actresses, we watched this
on TV on the BBC in the UK in the mid 50's probably a few years after you had them in the US. thanks.we love america.
Joan filmed her series at General Service Studios, where "THE GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN SHOW" was also produced. In fact, Al Simon, Herb Browar, and cameraman Philip Tannura worked on both series that season.
The husband seeking the divorce was the actor who played the husband of Gracie's best friend on The Burn's and Allen show.
YES! Hal March was the first "Harry Morton" in the initial "live" episodes from October through December 1950. Then, he wanted to be able to appear on other shows, and George graciously gave him his release before production shifted from New York to Hollywood; he occasionally returned as other characters {including "Harry's" real estate partner, "Casey"} through the 1952-'53 season. There were two other "Harry Mortons" until Larry Keating finally filled the role in the fall of 1953.
What a performer! I see where Lucy and Carol got it from...Joan was more subtle than Lucy whose slapstick was always a little bit over the top. In comedy tto much is the enemy of good. Yet...Lucy was great but I do think that Carol and Joan are more alike...By the end of the day the three ladies were fantastic. each of them in her own right.The preferences are only a matter of opinion.....
123pailin We agree completely. It's all about your own experience with an artist. You'll always like one more, but there's no reason you can't appreciate them all, because they are all terrific! Thanks so much. If you haven't seen IMJ's "Acrobats" yet, please check it out. It's one of the best episodes....
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Joan more subtle than Lucy? I found her as hammy and over-the-top-as a burlesque comic. I think she was an acquired taste like her look-a-like Danny Kaye and Betty Hutton.
Happy 60th Anniversary to I Married Joan.
Juliaflo Hal March is so funny!
Loved the 1950 's shows !
7:18 My baby is waiting...Good kid they usually don't wait.
markxxx21 LOL-Thanks for watching!
The ground officer in this episode was also on I Love Lucy several times. So was Shirley Mitchell as Marion Strong on Lucy.Here she is the divorcee at the beginning.
JSG1951 As well was the gentleman who played Shirley Mitchell's husband in the beginning..he was the single "woman's man" that was Fred's buddy who was a lingerie salesman..When he comes to visit Fred, Lucy wants to set him up to meet one of her single girlfriends...and then of course, chaos and funniness ensues!😂
What is a ground officer?
An old man just discovered your channel and some of my childhood memories. Along with Martha Raye and Lucy, Joan was an enjoyable favorite. Thanks for making Joan's (and Jim's) works available.
You're very welcome!
Enjoyed this thank you
Joan Davis, according to comments on the internet was as funny as Lucy, she WAS in movies and radio. She earned $100,000.00 a year in the 1940's doing her radio show. I remember a radio show were she and Vincent Price are out of work in Hollywood, it was hilarious. In the early fifties she bought her own TV studio and owned her own show, this was at the same time as Desilu. In 1961, getting ready to do a new series, she died at the age of 48 of a heart attack. If things had been different her name would probably be better know today. Tragedy struck her family again two years later when a fire, I believe in her house, took the lives of her mother, daughter and two grandchildren.
Joan's daughter was a regular on this show. Joan Davis was absolutely brilliant in the Abbott & Costello movie Hold That Ghost.
Hal March and Shirley MItchell were both on Lucy's show as well as Frank Nelson, who was very active in 50s era television. I recently watched an episode of the Jack Benny Show here on RUclips with Frank Nelson and it was absolutely hilarious.
There needs to be more classic old time radio shows and classic 50s - 70s shows here on RUclips, instead of having them constantly being taken down for idiotic reasons.
Thank you for sharing these, I like these very much and used to watch when I was a child.
grandma Ha You're very welcome! Stay tuned for more great episodes.
grandma Ha That little bald guy who tripped Joan was on I love Lucy Ricky thinks he's going bald! he wore a wig re member?
Thanks for the correction that is correct I meant to say that but was to concerned to write the other more important info in hopes it would put things in better perspective! If things went right "Let's Join Joannie" would have started in 1950! I also was hoping someone or group would turn up her other advanced show pilots that never aired like "Joan of Arkansas" '57/'58! etc! Besides "I Love Joan"-Davis! & we at least have about 100 episodes of this Classic!She did have a severe Heart condition!
Joan Davis and Hope Emerson worked well together. Too bad they didn't do more episodes together.
Hope Emerson played the owner of MOTHER'S, a jazz nightclub on the tv show Peter Gunn.
Also too speaking of "Lets Join Joannie"-'50 and "I Love Lucy"- '51. The Excercize sequence from "Lets Join Joannie" was later used in "I Love Lucy" & "The Lucy Show". One should check this out its here on You Tube!
She was so lovable ! as corny as this show is , it's still great ! - but her work in ' hold that ghost ' is a flawless tour de force ! anyway thank you very much for posting this treasure !
Great Show😂 Thank You For Sharing 😄
This is the poor man i love lucy
I Married Joan was NBC's answer to CBS's I Love Lucy, a comedy about a ditzy household. Interesting seeing Hope Emerson as the neighbor. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress as the sadistic matron in Caged.
I'm here because someone mentioned her on the Lucy Show, and posted the link to the playlist. Who knows. Maybe I'll love her! I sure love Lucille Ball
LUCY ROCKS!
Love these two.
I grew up with this show.........she was one of the first of the t.v. funny ladies. Her daughter, Beverly Wills, played her sister.
Yes - and Beverly was also in the comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" with Marilyn Monroe!
The weirdest thing about watching this show is seeing everyone without masks and no one social distancing. It is honestly so sad for me to watch stuff like this even vlogs and videos and shows from 2019. We were all so naive. Things will never be this way again. We will always be afraid of each other from now on and no one even seems to care.
Sadly , I agree. I understand the desire to protect people, but when it‘s finally over I hesitate to think how we will perceive others.
@@adammccaw Things were never the same after the late 1960s. It makes much more sense now why older people I talk to who are in their late 70s, 80s and 90s regard this time period when I Married Joan aired to be the golden period of the average American citizen.
You could take a factory job straight out of high school and afford a middle class home with wife and kids. Education was much cheaper and wasn't the woke, instilled nonsense that American universities are now. People had much more class and were more respectful of others. Even if these old performers had problems behind the scenes, they had real class and were true professionals, because they wanted to keep their audience entertained.
Nowadays American society is falling apart while criminals run most of the organizations. Nobody respects authority anymore. All COVID-19 did was divide and anger people to the point where we can't even agree on things like tax rates. Hollywood is long past satisfying Americans and people with down to earth values. It wants to instill people with destructive left wing politics and satisfy countries like China while they crank out the 100th Marvel film that's guaranteed to win at the box office.
I admire and absolutely love these old performers. Especially Jim Backus. It's a tragedy that there will never be another generation like them again.
That's not correct. Joan Davis did get nominated for Best Comedienne in 1953, but Lucille Ball won.
good episode
I adore Jim Backus! He's so cute and funny, and he was my favorite on Gilligan's Island
I find this as entertaining as I Love Lucy!
I Love Lucy debuted on October 15, 1951 and I Married Joan debuted a year later exactly. Check the Wikipedia pages of I Love Lucy and I Married Joan if you don't believe me.
Keith Evers Amen!
I watched this entire series as a child, and was fascinated (thanks to Wikipedia) to learn that NBC who had it in first-run sold the rights to CBS, who let the copyrights expire. so all three seasons are in the public domain.. I only had faint memories of it, but now, having re-discovered it on yt, I've been watching episodes of it daily.. Joan Davis was, IMO, MUCH more talented a comedienne than Lucy, and this series often dips its toe into the realm of surrealism.. in a way, it reminds me of some of the stuff Ernie Kovacks did way back when he had a tv series..so, I figure posting this question in the comments of the pilot might actually get a response.. here goes..
Even though it was so long ago, I remember one episode that's stuck in my mind for nearly sixty years, and I'd love to watch it again, but I don't know its title, and Googling all over the place through episode guides has not yielded results, but I'm not giving up.. yet.. the episode I'm trying to find had something to do with Joan and "Brad" having a bbq in their back yard.. through some typical screw-up, Joan is flipping grilled burgers or steaks, and flips one or more so high, it / they end up on the roof of their house.. and so does she, as she climbs up there to retrieve the food before the judge finds out what an idiotic thing she did.. does this plot device ring anyone's doorbell?.. I'm 100% certain I didn't imagine seeing that episode, and that it was in THIS series.. so.. if anyone else reading this knows the episode title, I'd be more grateful than words can express.. Thanks..
I learned to read watching the opening credits to this show. The singers were Joan Davis' brothers who sand accapello in a group. She used them for the segue 'music' so they didn't have to hire musicians as 'I Love Lucy' did. But what was the significance of the ringing doorbell at the beginning of each episode?
@Florida Ladybug Yes, it meant you were entering Joan’s home for another episode!
And Hal March!
I can honestly state that, as a boy of seven when first watching IMJ, that I loved Joan Davis. That she and her comedic art are before the Public now as never before, is a thing nearly miraculous. I did not know that she owned the production. This only adds more luster and interest to the IMJ Story. Whoever is responsible for making the series availble for viewing should be thanked profusely, which I do. (Also RUclips - can't forget them!)
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She was second rate.
I could be wrong, but this show looks like it may have been the first situation comedy to directly compete with CBS's "I love Lucy" show. In retrospect, we all know who won that competition.
Jim Backus today is more famous for GI and Mr. Magoo than being the straight man for the great comic talent Miss Davis .
A big Thank You to you, JDC!!! I enjoy this show so much and it helps keep the doldrums away, big time :) It means even more to me now, although I certainly enjoyed watching it as a child. I do have a question, if I may, I miss seeing the beginning of the show with the same theme song but also featured Joan Davis in a complete wedding gown n veil, standing in front of a wedding cake. I haven't seen it yet, I'm curious if I'm just missing those shows that started like that or if it was changed for some reason? Again I thank you, it's still a huge pleasure to watch!
Hi Carol, Thanks for your kind words, and you're welcome. The "Wedding Cake" Titles were used later when the show went into wide syndication. Originally, the show opened with Joan and a Bird's Eye view of her in the kitchen using one of the GE appliances. It was different each week. You can see another example of the early titles in "Career," also posted on the JDC. Link: ruclips.net/video/Apl0izcmf7Y/видео.html and also the Wedding Cake titles can be seen at this link: ruclips.net/video/ip57-Iae-xc/видео.html. Joan was crowned "Queen of Comedy" in the 1940s. Her Radio show salary was a million dollars in 1945! Another way of doing the titles was to show some scenes from that episode. We have edited them that way to hopefully shake a memory loose of perhaps an episode that someone had forgotten that they actually remembered! Thanks for watching!
@@JoanDavisChannel Thank you so much for your response JDC, so informative and interesting! I admire and am so appreciative of all your efforts to make your channel outstanding, and y'all have mastered that!
You're very welcome, Ms. Pagano. We expect to post additional episodes in the not-too-distant future.
@@JoanDavisChannel Yay!!! :)
It's a B-movie imitation of I Love Lucy, but I like I Married Joan pretty good. I remember watching this show and My Little Margie on ION Television back many years ago. Hallmark would break from Lucy reruns sometimes, so I'd tune into Joan and Margie as alternatives.
Love this show!!❤
I love Joan Davis.
Me too
This is great! Joan Davis Won an Emmy Award in 1953 for Best Comedienne! If her Unsold- Pilot "Lets Join Joannie" 1950 was picked up it would have been a year before "I Love Lucy" so its nice this series was done! There were several more Unsold-Pilots that also should have been sold and picked up like -"Joan of Arkansas" '57/'58 About- That follow the antics of Joan Joans,a Dental Technician from Hot Springs Arkansas,when she is chosen by the SaraBack Computer to become the First Human in Space!
1:44: Let me tell you about Joan.
4:06: Tripping and falling on Brad.
4:44: Brad’s arms belted.
4:55: Coffee & Doughnuts?
5:46: There’s only one hostess!
7:29: Reclining Brad’s seat.
9:12: You think my wife is any different?
9:30: My wife is at home waiting for the delivery of lamb fur coat.
11:00: Minnie plucking a chicken.
11:26: Chicken in the face.
12:04: Joan dancing.
12:12: Who is delivering?
13:26: Shaking hands with the chicken.
15:38: Brad walking home.
15:56: Brad what are you doing home? I happen to live here.
17:35: It’s a Persian leg of lamb!
18:30: I am going to cook this Persian leg of lamb.
19:38: There’s the hat I bought last year.
19:52: An insurance man called.
20:00: Who would want to steal a leg of lamb?
20:12: The T-Bone Gang.
23:28: Last stop, Chicago.
Love Joan Davis
That's Hope Emerson as Minerva. She had appeared in Adam's Rib and Caged (as the prison matron from Hell) a couple of years earlier.
I didn't know that you had an option of having an unplucked chicken to pluck off their feathers before cooking it instead of having a ready made frozen chicken wrapped up in a meat market.
21:05 Star Trek special effects in operation here.
I could be wrong, but I think that the chicken is suffering from a broken neck. It looks real, just dead. By the way, wasn't the chicken pluckin' neighbor lady Minerva also the dame who ran 'Mother's' on Peter Gunn? Did she not also play a psychotic private nurse in a Victor Mature crime film?
bitzofdataz IMDB comfirms that she did play "Mother" on Peter Gunn. Don't know which Victor Mature film it was. Thanks for watching!
I think the movie she is referring to is Caged.....and the actress is Hope Emerson , and she played a sadistic matron in a prison....I remember seeing this movie as a child and also thought at first Ms Emerson was a nurse being the movie was in Black and White
bitzofdataz That looks like a real chicken to you? Okay....
Lucille Ball's closest competitor as far as doing the physical comedy thing in those days . Ms. Davis , however was not the doll face Ms. Ball was .
This is one of my very earliest memories! I was 6 years old! What a wonderful memory!
Mr Howell...as a young dude!
Great to find the Pilot program! by-the-way! @2:56 Is THAt a hot plate?
sure looks like it. Thanks for watching.
wish you had the complete show but oh well
This show ended because Jim Backus quit the show. (Still trying to find out why). Joan and Lucy were practically mirror images of each other. If Backus didn’t quit, who knows how far this show could have gone. Side note: May 23rd 1961 ( yr I was born) Joan died of a heart attack in Palm Springs CA. In 1963 her mother, daughter and 2 grandchildren were killed in a house fire in Palm Springs Ca. So sad.
20:30 I guess they were still in the " married couples sleeping in separate single beds next to each other" era
Great episode, but according to Wikipedia, it appears to be incomplete. What about the divorce case being reconciled?
Please give us the link where you read that. We have the most complete version. To our knowledge, they never referred back to the couple in chambers. Thanks for watching.
I wasn't born yet .
boy that jone sure is a dim bulb she shore was bad at handing out those pilow's lmao!
I wonder if Danny DeVito was inspired by this opening scene for The War of the Roses.
I Married Joan.....starring Joan Davis and the original Mr. Magoo!!!
Jim Backus was PERFECT as Mr. Magoo! Next stop is RUclips for Mr. Magoo.
Who are the singers on the soundtrack? They're perfect.
Im Yu The Roger Wagner Chorale--You can find them on Itunes and elsewhere on RUclips-Thanks for watching.
JoanDavisChannel. There is a fascinating reason why you do not hear music in the background of the "I Married Joan" series -- including the opening theme. The initial season of the series was produced during a lengthy Hollywood musician strike. So instead of the usual orchestra that you would normally hear in shows like these, the producers brought in the Roger Wagner Chorale to do both the theme song and the musical transitions within the episodes. Even when the musicians strike was over, they continued to use the Roger Wagner Chorale. As it turns out this brought a unique musical style to this classic series. Rowby
Im Yu Very interesting! I always loved the Roger Wagner Chorale and I later sang in many choirs and conducted as well...
Ooooo! The Flintstones stole a line from this show: Fred: Boy, look at those people down there! They look just like ants! Airline Instructor: They are ants, Mr. Flintstone! We're not off the ground yet!
I caught that too!
I did too !!!😀
Wrong. This show premiered a year after I Love Lucy, and I Love Lucy was based on Lucille Ball's radio series, My Favorite Husband, reconfigured to co-star Desi Arnaz. My Favorite Husband began in 1948.
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How many Persian Lambs does it take to make a coat?... It was the early 50's though... No stunt lambs were harmed,or turned into Lamb Hams, in the making of this show!
Really Love I married Joan Really the best show of the 1950s