The TV Zone

Here's the one Lucy fans have been waiting for:

A complete series set of all 194 episodes of "I Love Lucy" in one handy package!

Coming out Oct. 23 from CBS/Paramount video, the nine-season box -- featuring the shape of a heart, just like those syndicated show openings -- will contain everything the individual season sets did.

Plus -- and here's the big news -- we'll get some new extras that include a fully colorized version of the "Lucy Goes to Scotland" episode. Normally, we'd shy away from anything "colorized," but insiders in the TV DVD community tell us this new effort is the real deal, looking sharp and authentic rather than dull and washed-out like those 1980s colorization efforts that gave the process a bad name. Even Hollywood pros who are notorious sticklers for video quality say the computer programs and human expertise have now advanced to the point you might not know the show wasn't filmed in color in the first place.

Let's hope they're right. Younger viewers who won't watch anything in black-and-white might finally be able to savor Don Knotts' "Andy Griffith" episodes. And our own personal fave, "The Dick Van Dyke Show."

Or would seeing Lucy's flame-red hair and other colorful accoutrements just throw our appreciation off-kilter? Can't wait to find out.