I do think "The Lucy Mysteries" could've hit.

18 minutes ago, Vee said:

I do think "The Lucy Mysteries" could've hit.

Lucy could have a police officer grandson that lives with her and is her link to crime. And she needs a female sidekick that is dragged reluctantly into her schemes.

I can also see her as one of the recurring semi-regulars on Murder She Wrote, but her ego probably would have been too big for that.

Aaron was right to be regretful, but who can blame him? He was HUGE at the time, but getting a chance to produce for Lucy still had to be nerve-wracking, especially when you consider that she had produced her last two shows herself. Plus, Aaron guest started on ILL early in his career! His producer instincts might’ve known better, but his instincts as a Lucy admirer probably told him to just shut up and let her do what she wanted to do.

Had LWL never happened, her last big shots on TV would have been hosting the “Three’s Company” clip show (which was a big get for them and something she was glad to be a part of) and the TV movie where she played a homeless woman. That would’ve been a fine end to her career.

I'm surprised they didn't have Lucy owning an apartment building with wacky tenants like 227 or maybe Lucy owns an ad agency with wacky employees and clients or Lucy as a producer of a daytime soap with wacky actors and plot lines.

Anything was better than the dreck they had her doing on Life With Lucy.

2 minutes ago, SoapDope78 said:

or Lucy as a producer of a daytime soap with wacky actors and plot lines

That would've been a lot of fun.

I don’t think anyone has mentioned Sharon Gless yet, she had a long run on TV from ingenue to grandmother.

Switch (which I have never seen) 1975-1978

Cagney & Lacey the show plus the telefilms 82-88, 94-96

The Trials of Rosie O’Neill was short lived, 90-92, but I remember it being pretty good.

Queer As Folk 2000-2005 then Burn Notice 2007-2013. And it seems like plenty of guest roles from the 90’s on.

I'll always appreciate what Gless did with the thankless recast of Ellen Burstyn's character in the underrated, shockingly good if short-lived Exorcist TV series on Fox, which followed on from the original film. She memorably inhabited an immortal role for a short guest run.

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