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I just picked up the color Honeymooners collection #3
Amazon.com: The Color Honeymooners Collection 3: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney: Movies TV
For that don't know, this is the series Gleason did from Miami Florida. The Honeymooners done here were remakes of the what we know now as the 1950's lost episodes (really believed to be lost back in the 60's.) with Sheila Macrae and Jane Kean as Alice and Trixie with musical numbers and dancing numbers with the June Taylor Dancers.
While they don't top the greatness of the 1950's Honeymooners they are still great and a lot of fun.
One of the fun things is the updated references.
There is a scene where Ralph is trying to butter up Alice to get some money she has hidden (she's ready for bed, with her hair in curlers). Ralph asks Norton what she looks like and he says something like " Well, with those curlers in her hair, she looks like the third Engineer on Star Trek".
It was a geek out moment for me because if it wasn't for Star Trek, I probably wouldn't have started watching The Honeymooners.
In the 80's WPIX would show The Honeymooners (classic 39) before Star Trek at Midnight. Before that, I saw the Honeymooners off and on but it didn't click with me until I started to see them all the time on the lead up to Star Trek.
Before long, the Honeymooners had me hooked as good as Star Trek.
Anyway, besides the Star Trek reference, guess who is on one of the shows?
Zira herself. Yes, Kim Hunter is on one of the shows. These shows were done in 66 or 67 so this was around the time she would be putting on the ape mask.
Also Richard Deacon (Mel from Dick Van Dyke) was on one of the shows. What was funny is that Gleason messed up his name on the roll call at the end of the show. "Robert Deacon..." Gleason said... followed by an immediate wince when he realized he screwed up the name.
Amazon.com: The Color Honeymooners Collection 3: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney: Movies TV
For that don't know, this is the series Gleason did from Miami Florida. The Honeymooners done here were remakes of the what we know now as the 1950's lost episodes (really believed to be lost back in the 60's.) with Sheila Macrae and Jane Kean as Alice and Trixie with musical numbers and dancing numbers with the June Taylor Dancers.
While they don't top the greatness of the 1950's Honeymooners they are still great and a lot of fun.
One of the fun things is the updated references.
There is a scene where Ralph is trying to butter up Alice to get some money she has hidden (she's ready for bed, with her hair in curlers). Ralph asks Norton what she looks like and he says something like " Well, with those curlers in her hair, she looks like the third Engineer on Star Trek".
It was a geek out moment for me because if it wasn't for Star Trek, I probably wouldn't have started watching The Honeymooners.
In the 80's WPIX would show The Honeymooners (classic 39) before Star Trek at Midnight. Before that, I saw the Honeymooners off and on but it didn't click with me until I started to see them all the time on the lead up to Star Trek.
Before long, the Honeymooners had me hooked as good as Star Trek.
Anyway, besides the Star Trek reference, guess who is on one of the shows?
Zira herself. Yes, Kim Hunter is on one of the shows. These shows were done in 66 or 67 so this was around the time she would be putting on the ape mask.
Also Richard Deacon (Mel from Dick Van Dyke) was on one of the shows. What was funny is that Gleason messed up his name on the roll call at the end of the show. "Robert Deacon..." Gleason said... followed by an immediate wince when he realized he screwed up the name.
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