I Love Lucy is returning to network television after fifty-six years.
Sort of.
CBS is planning to air a one-hour block of the classic sitcom on December 20, 2013 at 8 pm. The network will air the rarely seen Christmas Show episode that aired December 24, 1956. It was last aired on primetime back in 1989, and a colorized version premiered the following year. The Christmas Show is considered a TV special rather than a regular episode and was never included in the re-broadcasting of the show in syndication.
While the proposed hour special will be continuous with only one main title and end credits, the second episode is slated to be "Lucy's Italian Movie," which aired on April 16, 1956 and was part of the Ricardos' and Mertzes' European adventure. Lucy finally lands a role in an Italian movie as a grape stomper but things get heated when she crosses path with a local stomper. Cue the famous grape fight!
Both episodes will be presented in a colorized yet vintage format. We didn't know what that meant at first but if you check out the video below, you can see what is considered colorized vintage.
Spoiler alert! It's the whole Christmas Show episode.
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