[Jeffhs]

I was surprised to see the program on CBS in color. I know the series that followed it in the '60s, "The Lucy Show", was in fact filmed in color, but until I read your post I couldn't for the life of me figure out how CBS or anyone else ever managed to show one "I Love Lucy" episode in color. I'm sure every one of those episodes was originally filmed in black and white, as color TV was quite rare in the early 1950s.

BTW, one of my favorite episodes of "The Lucy Show" is the one in which Lucy won a chance to be "DJ for a Day" on a local radio station. It was disastrous, as Lucy accidentally turned on an electric fan in the studio that blew away all the identification labels for the controls on the panel. She didn't know what control, button, etc. did what, and what followed was a burst of loud noises--sound effects, jingles, the one commercial that was on tape (the tape deck holding that commercial was mounted on a wall above the control panel and behind the DJ)--and, if I remember correctly, the whole studio filled with smoke and Lucy sang, in tears, "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas."

Interesting, as I had a dream in 1964, when I was eight years old, that I was a DJ on a Cleveland radio station, working the midnight to 6 a.m. shift. Everything went quite well until about three a. m., when I put on a record and, about a minute into it, a spark flew out of the control panel in front of me. And it just went from bad to worse; after that spark, I saw my whole control board burst into flames. As I ran around the studio shutting off lights and was just about out the door, the telephone rang. It was the technician at the station's transmitter, some 15 miles west of the studio. "Look, I don't know how to tell you this," I said to the technician, "but my whole studio just caught fire!" The technician shot back, "That's nothing! We're off the air--the transmitter just exploded!"

I don't ordinarily remember dreams or nightmares, but that one has stuck in my head after all these years (I'm 58 years old, so I had that nightmare half a century ago) and will probably be with me the rest of my life. However, I'm almost certain that "DJ for a Day" episode of "The Lucy Show" had something (maybe everything) to do with it. I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid (when we only had 3 channels of TV in Cleveland in those days, mid-'60s), so it wouldn't surprise me if I had seen that episode of the program and it scared me, enough to result in the nightmare I had.