TV Series

Series Name:	The Honeymooners
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1955 - 1956
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Sitcom
Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	11 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden
	Art Carney as Ed Norton
	Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden
	Joyce Randolph as Trixie Norton

Notes

The Honeymooners originated as a series of sketches performed on the DuMont series Cavalcade of Stars and the first CBS iteration of The Jackie Gleason Show between 1951 and 1955. As a standalone series, The Honeymooners only lasted for one season of 39 episodes, however thanks to syndication went on to become one of the most famous early sitcoms of all time.

After cancellation, additional Honeymooners skits (including musical episodes) were produced as part of a revived Jackie Gleason Show during 1956-57. Gleason would revive the characters for sketches in his 1962 series Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine, followed in 1966 by the reunion standalone special The Honeymooners: The Adoption. Between 1966 and 1970 the Honeymooners were also part of another Jackie Gleason Show (now produced in color), and at one point CBS wanted to produce a one-hour Honeymooners series, but discussions fell apart. A further Honeymooners skit aired in 1973, and finally between 1976 and 1978 Gleason produced four one-hour standalone specials after which the characters were retired. Gleason was the only actor appear throughout the various runs.

A big-screen remake of the series, reimagining the lead characters as African-Americans with Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph, was released in 2005.

Producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera later confirmed that their iconic animated series The Flintstones was based upon The Honeymooners.

International remakes of the series (authorized or otherwise) have been produced in Canada, Indonesia, Poland, Netherlands, and Sweden. The Netherlands version ran for 16 years.

A few years before Gleason's death, many of the skits from the 1951-57 era were put back into circulation as "The Lost Episodes" and are sometimes aired alongside the so-called "Classic 39".

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

The Honeymooners: "Classic 39" Episodes - Paramount - USA (2003)

VHS

The Honeymooners: "Classic 39" Collection Volume 1 Of 20 - CBS - USA (1993)

VHS

The Honeymooners: Lost Episodes Volume 3 - MPI Home Video - USA (1997)

Comments and Reviews


BigBadBluesMan 30th Jan 2016



23skidoo ● 28th Oct 2015		@George. That isn't why it ended. Jackie Gleason said they had run out of ideas for the weekly half-hour format and wanted to end the series while the high quality was being maintained. He continued to do Honeymooners skits as part of his 1956 series and beyond. It had nothing to do with Gleason "always arguing". In fact I erred by using the word "cancellation" in the Note section as it was not cancelled at all; Gleason was the most powerful man on TV in 1956 and simply called time.



George Slv ● 28th Oct 2015		As a boy of 9-10 I commented to some friends in Winnipeg that the show had kind of a downer effect because of how Gleason was always arguing. Next season they tell me it was not renewed because of this. It was a hard situation to take for Jackie and everyone.

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