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PBS special featuring a collection of Gleason's most memorable characters and skits from his long-running CBS television series The Jackie Gleason Show.
Running time: 60:00.
NOTE: This special is available on MPI DVD at
http://www.mpihomevideo.com/Store/Detail.asp?ProdID=10346
Alice finds a love letter in the cookbook that she has borrowed from Trixie. Upon examination, Trixie reveals that the letter was written by Ed. Ralph also reads the letter, and immediately assumes that Alice has a secret lover. Anxious to determine the identity of "the other man," Ralph and Ed head down to the office of a handwriting analyst. Inevitably, she concludes that Ed was the author of the romantic note.
On September 23, 2004 the news broke that a newly discovered "Honeymooners Lost Episode" was unearthed in the vaults at the University of Georgia's Peabody Awards Archive.
Archivist Margaret Compton discovered "Love Letter" (originally airing on Oct. 16, 1954, on "The Jackie Gleason Show,") during a preservation review of the archives kinescopes and video tapes.
A re-make of "Love Letter" aired 2 years later on Nov. 24, 1956, but the Peabody Awards archive heald the only known copy of the original sketch.
This episode was probably submitted for Jackie Gleason, who did win the Peabody Award in 1955.
When the University contacted Gleason Enterprises they were very excited to see that this kinescope existed and in such excellent condition. At the time Gleason Enterprises stated that they do intend to release this never-rebroadcasted episode through MPI Home Video.
TV Land aired this episode for the first time since it's original broadcast on it's 50th anniversary on October 16, 2004.
Episode running time: 37:46.
Special running time: 60:00.
This excellent A&E documentary examines through family and celebrity interviews Jackie's life from birth to death. Guests include Marilyn Gleason, Milton Berle, Larry King, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and many more. Includes rare footage from Gleason's shows and specials. Hosted by Joan Lundon.
NOTE: This special is available on A&E Home Video & DVD.
Running time: 2 hours.
This "way too short" special hosted by Kevin James celebrates "The Honeymooners" 50th anniversary. A look back at various sketches and episodes with interviews with Art Carney, Joyce Randolph, Tom Hanks, Dennis Franz, Carol Burnett and many more. Rare clips include:
"Bread" (10/5/51)
"The New Bowling Ball" (9/20/52)
"TV Game of the Week" (10/20/62)
"The Adoption" (1/8/66)
"Six Months To Live" (10/4/52) & (11/23/68) and "A Matter of Life and Death"(10/29/55) with an over the years comparrison.
"Women's Lib" (10/11/73)
the 4 ABC reunion shows (see season 11).
and classic clips from the "Classic 39" & the "Color Honeymooners".
CBS.
Running time: 60 minutes.
This is the 1st of a series of specials TV Land created celebrating classic TV programs. Interviews with Art Carney, Edmund De Vierno, Marilyn Gleason, Coleman Jaacoby, Jane Kean, Audrey Meadows in archive footage, Jayne Meadows, Joyce Randolph, Leonard Stern & Ronald Wayne.
TV Land.
Running time: 60 minutes.
Paul Reiser hosts this last of the 3 Disney Channel specials celebrating the Gleason characters Rudy the Repairman, Reggie Van Gleason III, Joe the Bartender, Charlie Bratton, The Poor Soul and of course Ralph Kramden.
Disney Channel.
Total running time: 50 minutes.
Paul Reiser hosts this 2nd of 3 Disney Channel specials. This special introduces "The Honeymooners First Christmas" from Jackie Gleason's "Cavalcade Of Stars".
"The Honeymooners Christmas Show" (12/21/1951): It's Christmas Eve. Alice is decorating the tree and setting out holiday refreshments. Ralph comes home with potato salad, but Alice says it's the wrong potato salad. It came from DeVito's, which would have been the right place to go for lasagne, but the right potato salad would have come from Krauss'. Ralph can't believe that Alice is actually asking him to go out for different potato salad, and he's right. She's not asking him. She's telling him. He leaves. Trixie enters, and describes to Alice what Ed gave her for Christmas--a juice squeezer that looks like Napoleon and squirts juice out of its ear. Fenwick Babbitt (played by Jackie Gleason) comes by, to deliver ice and beer. After hauling the beer barrel all over the apartment and standing around with the block of ice, he discovers he's in the wrong apartment, and leaves. Ed enters, escorting Jane Pickens. Jane knew Trixie from vaudeville. Then Joe the Bartender (played by Gleason) stops in. He says a poor soul down at the bar was the victim of a nasty practical joke by Fatso Fogarty, who told him he had "won" a diamond and then handed him a cheap rhinestone. What made the hoax particularly pathetic was that the poor soul, totally taken in, cherished his prize. Alice, moved by the tale, tells Joe to send the poor soul up, and she'll give him a real present. Joe leaves, taking Jane Pickens with him. Now the Poor Soul (played by Gleason in pantomime) arrives. Alice offers him refreshments and a gift, probably the first gift anyone ever gave him. He touchingly returns the favor by giving her his "diamond," then leaves. The next visitor is Rudy the Repairman (also played by Gleason). Rudy is accompanied by his regular assistant, Whitey, whose chief trait is that he speaks unintelligibly. Rudy makes a pass at Alice and Trixie, destroys the television set, and departs. Alice tells Trixie that it doesn't really matter, since she just had the set on trial. Ed brings in Cardenis The Juggler, who performs a fantastic juggling routine. Reggie Van Gleason III (hmmm, that face...) shows up with a band and the June Taylor Dancers. Reggie has been throwing a party at Joe the Bartender's. Now he's come to bring joy upstairs. The band plays. The dancers dance. Reggie does his inimitable Reggie dance. Then he and his entourage file out. Alice realizes it's been a while since she saw Ralph. Ralph (played by... ) reappears, with a cop. Seems Ralph was knocking on the window of Kraus's, and was arrested for attempted break-in. Alice straightens things out. The cop leaves.Alice and Ralph exchange presents. He gets rabbit-lined gloves. She gets a juice squeezer shaped like Napoleon ("and it's practical, too... ").
NOTE: This sketch would be performed 2 more times in 1952 and 1953 with different guest stars.
Disney Channel.
Episode running time: 36:49.
Total running time: 50:00.
Paul Reiser hosts this 1st of 3 Disney Channel specials. This special introduces the 1st 6 "Honeymooners" sketches from 1951's Jackie Gleason's "Cavalcade Of Stars". They are:
1) "Bread" (10/5/51). Ralph returning home from work exhausted, Alice makes him run to the store for some bread and a fight insues. NOTE: This is the very first "Honeymooners" sketch. Art Carney plays a cop. Running time: 5:55.
2) "Razor Blades" (10/12/51). Ralph and Alice fight ofver Ralphs missing razor blades. NOTE: This is the shortest Honeymooners sketch. Running time: 5:02.
3) "The New Television Set" (11/2/51). After Alice demos a new television, Ralph makes her return it. Ralph eventually gives in at the end and buys it for her. NOTE: This sketch includes the 1st appearance of Carney as Ed Norton & Elaine Strich as Trixie. Running time: 8:24.
4) "Ralph Threatens To Leave" (11/16/51). Alice mocks Ralph being a bus driver and he threatens to leave. Alice apologizes and Ralph stays. Running time: 6:24.
5) "Ring Salesman" (12/7/51). Ralph thinks Alice is having an affair with a ring salesman who really is helping her with a ring for Ralphs Christmas gift. NOTE: Joyce Randolph joins the cast as Trixie. Running time: 8:43.
6) "Quiz Show" (12/14/51). Ralph blames Alice for blowing their chance at the big prize on a radio quiz show. After, when the producers realize they made a mistake and that Alice was right, it's Ralph himself who is put on the spot when it's his chance to save the day. NOTE: This episode was remade on 10/18/1952 (See season 1). Running time: 12:09.
Disney Channel.
Total running time: 50 minutes.
Audrey Meadows hosts this 35th anniversary special featuring a mix of clips from "The Classic 39" and 'The Lost Episodes. This special saw the premiere of 2 "Lost Episodes": "Lost Baby" (10/11/1952) & "Quiz Show" (10/18/1952). Featured interviews with Art Carney and Joyce Randolph.
CBS
Running time: 60 minutes.
This the last of 3 "Best Of Gleason" specials. Penny Marshall hosts. With guest hosts Sandy Duncan & Jason Bateman. Sketches include:
1) Gleason fumbles a joke and squirms his way through.
2) Special Guest host Ed Sullivan's monologue.
3) "Reggie Van Gleason III": Reggie and his band Rock the house.
4) "Fenwick Babbitt": Fenwick takes a job in an automat.
5) "The Honeymooners": “Six Months to Live”. From 10/4/1952 (See season 1). A doctors note has Ralph beleiving he only has 6 months to live.
6) Jackie brings out an impersonator. Guests include Charles Laughton, Rudy Vallee, Edward G. Robinson & Hop Along Cassidy.
7) Jackie weighs in.
8) "The Poor Soul": The Poor Soul rents a room and has nothing but trouble).
9) "Charlie Bratton": Loudmouth Charlie gets Clem into more trouble when they rehearse for a show.
10) "Rudy The Repairman": Rudy wrecks more havoc when he moves a piano to clean a carpet.
11) "The Honeymooners": "When In Rome". From 2/16/1957 (See season 5). In Italy, Ralph overhears Alice on the phone which leads him to believe that she is having an affair with Harry Vederchi.
NOTE: The 2 "Honeymoners" episodes seen in this special are not seen in syndication or available on VHS or DVD. We can only hope MPI will release these episodes on the future repackaged "Lost Episodes" DVD due out in 2005-2006.
Syndicated.
Running time: 2 hours.
This 26, 1/2 hour episode series airing on Showtime, hightighted all of Jackie Gleason's famous TV characters including: Rudy the Repairman, Reggie Van Gleason III, Joe the Bartender, Charlie Bratton, The Poor Soul and Ralph Kramden.
Showtime.
Total run time: 13 hours.
This special party celebrating Jackie Gleason is hosted by John Candy, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph, Jane Kean, Sheila MacRae, Sue Ane Langdon, Jane Curtin, Teri Garr, Burt Reynolds, Red Buttons & John Larroquette. Teriffic vintage clips from "The Jackie Gleason Show", talk shows, movies, and countless specials. Includes footage of one of Gleason's very rare characters, Rum Tum.
CBS.
Running time: 2 hours.
This the 2nd of 3 "Best Of Gleason" specials. Ed McMahon hosts. With guest host Steve Allen. Sketches include:
1) Jackie interviews Art Linkletter, Robert Wagner, and Terry Moore.
2) Gleason mishaps & bloopers.
3) "Reggie Van Gleason III": Reggie works as a shoe salesman.
4) "Fenwick Babbitt": Fenwick is a contestant on Can You Do This?.
5) "The Honeymooners": “The New Bowling Ball”. From 9/20/1952 (See season 1). Ralph, set to go to a bowling tournament with his new bowling ball, winds up with his thumb caught in the ball after an argument with Alice. NOTE: This complete sketch is the very 1st Gleason, Carney, Meadows & Randolph sketch broadcasted on CBS.
6) Talent contest between The Hines Brothers (a young Gregory & brother Maurice) and Jack "Jackie" Benny.
7) "Rudy The Repairman": Rudy & Whitey wreck havoc when they try to catch a mouse.
8) "The Poor Soul": The Poor Soul finds himself pushed around at an automat.
9) "Charlie Bratton": Loudmouth Charlie talks Clem Finch into losing 2 shares of stock.
10) Steve Allen recalls when he, Gleason, Gary Moore, Jack Carter, Phil Silvers and Audrey Meadows perform "Make Love To Me".
11) "The Honeymooners": "Framed In Spain". From 3/9/1957 (See season 5). From Madrid, Ralph gets blackmailed by a young woman who threatens to give a photo of him with her to Alice.
Syndicated.
Running time: 2 hours.
The 2 "Honeymoners" episodes seen in this special are not seen in syndication or available on VHS or DVD. We can only hope MPI will release these episodes on the future repackaged "Lost Episodes" DVD due out in 2005-2006.
This the 1st of 3 "Best Of Gleason" specials. This first special is hosted by Harry Anderson. With guest hosts Valerie Harper & Sally Struthers. Sketches include:
1) Gleason mishaps & bloopers.
2) "Reggie Van Gleason III": Reggie entertains his fiancé, played by Audrey Meadows).
3) "Fenwick Babbitt": Fenwick takes a job at a bakery involving conveyer belts.
4) "The Honeymooners": “Sprained Thumb”. From 11/15/1952 (See season 1). A bus accident leaves Ralph's sprained thumb driving Alice crazy.
5) Jackie interviews Jonathan Winters.
6) "Rudy The Repairman": Rudy & Whitey lay out a carpet in restaurant.
7) Jackie does a little soft shoe, some cartwheels and an array of imitations.
8) "The Poor Soul": The Poor Soul has a disasterous date at a roller rink.
9) "Charlie Bratton": Loudmouth Charlie doops Clem out of a $1.00 & tries to cure him of his hiccups.
10) "The Honeymooners": "Away We Go". From 2/2/1957 (See season 5). In Paris, Ralph & Ed find themselves overboard on a lifeboat with only a bottle of wine and each others friendship. Ralph & Ed sing "Goodbye, Old Pal, Goodbye".
Syndicated.
Running time: 2 hours.
The 2 "Honeymoners" episodes seen in this special are not seen in syndication or available on VHS or DVD. We can only hope MPI will release these episodes on the future repackaged "Lost Episodes" DVD due out in 2005-2006.
This special hosted by different people, depending on the city that aired it (for example: Bobby Rivers in NY - WPIX & Don Bleu in San Francisco - KTVU), presented portions of the following "Lost Episodes":
"Teamwork: Beat The Clock", "Pickles", "Alice Plays Cupid", "The Songwriters", "The Adoption", "Kramden Vs. Norton", & "Ralph's Sweet Tooth".
Syndicated.
Running time: 2 hours.
Even though MPI didn't do the greatest job with bringing the "Lost Episodes" to DVD the first go around, they did do a fantastic job with this special honoring the 35th anniversary of "The Jackie Gleason Show". Vintage clips of all of Jackie's characters are shown.
This special is available on MPI home video.
Runing time: 100 minutes
Highlights From His Career.
ABC News special from the night Jackie Gleason passed away.
This special is available on MPI Home Video.
Running time: 24 minutes.
Bobby Rivers hosts this special in which the 4 stars of "The Honeymooners" choose their favorite "Classic 39" episodes. They are:
Joyce Randolph's: "The Sleepwalker".
Art Carney's: "The Man From Space".
Audrey Meadow's: "Alice And The Blonde".
Jackie Gleason's: "A Matter Of Life And Death".
Syndicated.
Running time: 2 hours.
Jackie Gleason hosts this holiday special. Includes the premieres of 3 Lost Episodes "Santa And The Bookies", "Honeymooners Christmas Party" and "New Year's Eve Party".
Syndicated.
Running time: 2 hours.
Jackie Gleason hosts "The Honeymooners Anniversary Celebration". Celebrating 33 years of the "Lost Episodes". Clips shown include the premieres of "The Adoption" and a colorized "Glow Worm Cleaning". Guests include Art Carney, Audrey Meadows & Joyce Randolph. Syndicated. Running time: 2 hours.
"The Honeymooners: The Lost Episodes" makes their premiere on cable. Showtime launches "The Honeymooners: The Lost Episodes" Marathon on Labor Day, Monday, 9/2/1985. In the 3 & 1/2 hour marathon, 8 complete episodes are aired including: "Ralph's Sweet Tooth", "The Cold", "Pickles", "Suspence", "Brother-In-Law", "Alice's Aunt Ethel", "Norton Moves In" and "Glow Worm Cleaning".
NOTE: Beginning Thursday, 9/5/1985 "The Honeymooners: The Lost Episodes" begins it's regular series run on Showtime with "Ralph's Sweet Tooth".
Showtime.
Running time: 3 & 1/2 hours.
The Honeymooners Reunion is hosted by Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows on the recreated original set. Features clips of the "Lost Episodes" in groups: Ralph's diets, Ralphs low threshold for pain, bloopers, arguements, jumping to conclusions, Ralph vs. Ed, get rich quick schemes, apartment mishaps & of course Ralph's love for Alice.
NBC.
Running time: 60 minutes.
20/20 celebrates Jackie Gleason's 60th birthday with exclusive interviews with friends and clips of his work.
ABC.
Running time: 60 minutes.
This Jackie Gleason special contained a couple of Gleason's famous characters including Joe the Bartender and the "Honeymooners" sketch "Women's Lib". (See season 11). This is the only information known about this sketch.
CBS.
Running time: 60 minutes.
Art Carney hosts a special edition of "American Scene Magazine" to celebrate Jackie Gleason's 35 years in show biz.
CBS.
Running time: 60 minutes.
