Lucy Meets a Drag Queen

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

"Lucy and Jim Bailey" (November 6, 1972)

Basically, Lucille Ball did a solid for one gay performer, but in doing this, she also helped make gays a little less scary for America. Jim Bailey was a female impersonator who who had already made appearances on late night TV for this uncanny ability to turn himself into female celebs. Lucy, however, gave him a showcase on her popular prime time sitcom, showing her viewers that not only were drag queens not scary, but in fact they can be a lot of fun.

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0:00.0	The Lucy Show
0:05.0	Starring Lucille Ball
0:09.0	Co-starring Vivian Vest
0:12.0	Here's Lucy
0:16.0	Starring Lucille Ball Every day I'm better than I ever was before
0:27.1	Westinghouse
0:30.3	First with the Future presents
0:33.1	The Lucille Ball's Desiardez Show show with special guest stars Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams.
0:43.4	And of course, Vivian Vance, William Prawley and Little Ricky.
0:49.9	Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT
0:54.0	episodes of classic sitcoms. I'm Drew Mackie. I'm Glenn Lakin. Glenn, I have a question for you. Oh dear. I don't want to answer it. How many sitcoms did Lucille Ball star in? Apparently four, three. I was going to say three, but then I added another because there's always one I don't think about. There is. It might be five. so I tried to add it up in my head. I didn't know, I didn't know until I added it.
1:14.3	It was a, another because there's always when I don't think about. There is. It might be five. So I try to add it up in my head.
1:12.0	I didn't know until I added it. It was a surprising answer. But obviously there's I Love Lucy, U.S. Iran from 1951 and 1937. Then there's the Lucy Desi Comedy Hour, which was like the sequel series, which was an hour long. But they only made 13 of them. Right. But it's technically a different show.
1:27.4	So if you want to be technical and people listening to this podcast do, I guess that is a separate show. I've never, I should watch them. I mean, when you think about how much Lucy content is out there that you probably haven't seen, like you would be able to like coast through that for like a month. Right. Then there's also my favorite husband, which was the radio show that turned into I Love Lucy,
1:46.1	which starred Lucille Ball as the main character.
1:49.4	And the first Lucy episode we covered was the one where Lucy thinks Ricky's trying to murder her.
1:54.5	That was an adaptation of my favorite husband episode.
1:57.7	Are those available anywhere?
1:59.5	I believe so.
2:00.5	I believe it's pretty easy to find popular radio stuff from back in the day.
2:04.1	It's mostly well preserved.
2:06.0	Then post I Love Lucy, there's The Lucy Show, which ran for six seasons, 1962 to 1968.
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