The Color Honeymooners - Collection 1
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Actor: Jackie Lynn Bowen, Judy Jordan, Lanita Kent, Milton Berle, Pat SandyBrand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mpi Home Video
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- The Color Honeymooners (a/k/a The Jackie Gleason Show), a top-rated comedy/variety program aired, from the sun and fun capital of the world Miami Beach! on Saturday night from 1966-70 on CBS-TV. This long-running series marked the final weekly TV show for The Great One. Reprising their famous characters from The Honeymooners, the cast was led by Jackie Gleason (Ralph Kramden) and Art Carney (E
Movie Reviews of The Color Honeymooners - Collection 1
Movie Review: Not bad at all, nostalgia aside
Summary: 5 Stars
Being born in 1964, some of my earliest memories of watching television was of hearing the announcer yell MIAMI BEACH while watching the rapid close-up of the city appear on the scereen and of the closing of this show with the little caricature of JG in his "Away we go" stance at the end of the credits.
So for me and a lot of other small children in the late 60s, THIS is the Jackie Gleason Show that we remember.
Now of course fans of the original 1950s Honeymooners may coomplain about the comparison, but having seen this for the first time since I was a small child, nostalgia aisde it's really good on it's own. Art Carney and JG are in fine form and the later actresses who play Alice and Trixie (who were actually the third to do so) do a pretty good imitation of Joyce Randolph and Audrey Meadows. It does help to avoid any memory or comparison to the 50s episodes to fully enjoy this.
The musical numbers are a tad cornball by modern standards, but interesting as a time capsule of what variety shows were like in the 60s. Look carefully and you'll see Mercedes Ellignton (Graddaughter of the legendary Duke Ellington) among the dancers.
So on it's own, it IS pretty entertaining. Incidentally, the liner notes promise a DVD of the "Jackie Gleason Show" (sans Honeymooners) also from MPI in the near future. Ooh Goody good good (as JG would say). Modern viewers will see JG in FULL form with Crazy Guggenheim, The Poor Soul, Reggie Van Gleason, and Timmie "Oh Yeah" Rogers (a pioneering Black comedian). So look out for that and enjoy this in the meantime.
Summary of The Color Honeymooners - Collection 1
The Color Honeymooners (a/k/a The Jackie Gleason Show), a top-rated comedy/variety program aired, "from the sun and fun capital of the world ? Miami Beach!" on Saturday night from 1966-70 on CBS-TV. This long-running series marked the final weekly TV show for "The Great One." Reprising their famous characters from The Honeymooners, the cast was led by Jackie Gleason (Ralph Kramden) and Art Carney (Ed Norton). Newcomers Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean played long-suffering wives Alice and Trixie. Like popular variety series of the time, the show?s format was a clever combination of new comedy sketches coupled with classic Honeymooners bits. Plenty of big name guest stars and a generous helping of singing and dancing rounded out the hour. Regulars included Gleason?s glamorous Glea-Girls; the June Taylor Dancers; Sammy Spear and His Orchestra, and announcer, Johnny Olson. This 4-disc boxed set includes 10 episodes and bonus features: In 25 Words or Less, Ship of Fools, Poor People of Paris, Confusion, Italian Style, Curse of the Kramdens, The Mod Couple, You?re in the Picture, We Spy, Petticoat Jungle, Mexican Hat TrickSimilar DVD Movies
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