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Aug 12, 2018
Released in 1954 - The Long, Long Trailer (TLLT, for short) was very much like watching a very-very long-long episode (90 minutes) of the highly-popular "I Love Lucy" TV Show of the early 1950's. Now, don't get me wrong here - I can certainly enjoy watching an extended episode of "I Love Lucy"', now, and again. But I found that with TLLT there seemed to be something slightly out of kilter with its story - Something oddly unbalanced. It seemed to me that TLLT was missing a vitally important element in its "comedy relief" department. What I'm talking about here is, of course, the much needed input of actors William Frawley and Vivian Vance, as Fred and Ethel Mertz, into TLLT's comic story. Believe me, these two characters were most desperately needed several times throughout the course of TLLT as a buffer to counter the often amusing, but sometimes annoying, domestic squabbles of Nicky and Tracy (aka Ricky and Lucy Ricardo). But, anyway - (With that all said) - TLLT was still fairly entertaining as far as comedies go. But it certainly wasn't great.