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6. Lucille Ball ran a quality production facility

Reply to FoxNewsSucks (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:55 PM

Sep 2021

There's a noticeable drop-off in production value when Desilu was sold to Paramount. You can see it in Start Trek between season two to season three, just after the sale was completed. Story lines were predictable and banal and sets looked really cheap. You can see the same change in Mannix and Mission Impossible episodes as well, both of which were Desilu originals. Paramount went cheap and it showed.

IMO Ball does not get recognition for her abilities or standards as a study chief. She was one of the greats.

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