Posted on 01/14/2024 8:02:46 AM PST by Libloather
“The Honeymooners, which aired from 1955 until 1956.”
Uh!! Just one year?
I was watching it in the 60’s.
You are perhaps conflating it with the "Honeymooners" segment of the (hour-long, in full color) "Jackie Gleason Show" from Miami Beach.
By then, the actresses who had placed Trixie and Alice in the 1950s had been replaced.
Regards,
It had 39 episodes.
Typically, shows had more episodes then than now.
Some streaming shows have as few as 5 or 6 per year. Others typically have 10 to 12. Some have more.
Even the episode numbers have dropped on network TV; 22 is a common number now.
RIP
As an aside I recall my grandmother stories about Jackie Gleason. Gleason was dirt poor. He played in some NJ taverns before getting fame. She recalled one evening wherein he was done with his evening act and went to sleep on a pool table as he had nowhere else to go. His shoes had holes in the soles.
I don’t know much about Joyce but that show was, and still is on one of the internet sites, simply funny. My favorite episode was Ralph’s appearance on a name that tune similar styled show.
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Had no idea she was still alive. 99 ain’t bad. Like everyone else, I loved the Honeymooners.
Gleason came from extreme poverty. His childhood has been described as Dickensian.
RIP.
The same concept has been made nonstop and continues to this day.
The premise? Blue collar white guy = fool; their wives = wise.
It's also been expanded to white = fool; black = wise.
All in the Family and Sanford and Son had those plus; old = fool; young = wise.
The Jeffersons. White collar black guy = successful fool; wife = wise
And on and on with various twists with white guy, especially blue collar, being the bottom of the wisdom/intelligence rung and/or evil.
In your face today but considered comedy in B&W TV days when it started.
The premise? Blue collar white guy = fool; their wives = wise.
It's also been expanded to white = fool; black = wise.
All in the Family and Sanford and Son had those plus; old = fool; young = wise.
The Jeffersons. White collar black guy = successful fool; wife = wise
And on and on with various twists with white guy, especially blue collar, being the bottom of the wisdom/intelligence rung and/or evil.
In your face today but considered comedy in B&W TV days when it started.
All true. The big difference is The Honeymooners are actually funny.
She looked sort of like Benedict Cumberbatch.
If and when the they put a woman on the Moon they gotta nickname the landing module ALICE 😀😀😀
One of Jackie Gleason’s last TV appearances was on the Today Show where he explained how Amos n Andy gave him the inspiration for the Honeymooners. Similar plot, but with a couple of White working stiffs from, as Norton called it “the Garden spot of the woild, Brooklyn, USA”😀😀
Maybe after the seriousness of WW2, the self deprecation was healing.
Amos and Andy was another funny show. Better than any sitcom on TV today.
There’s a very good documentary, Amos n Andy, Anatomy of a Controversy narrated by George Kirby. Jesse Jackson, of all people said he never had a problem with that show because it opened doors for Sidney Potier, Sammy Davis Jr, Diahann Caroll and other Black entertainers. He also stated the characters in that show reminded him of some of the people he grew up around in Chicago.
She was acting from 1944 up to 2000. What a life and career. RIP.
Median salary of a NYC bus driver today is around $ 70,000 . Not great but not bad . Surely the Kramdes could have afforded a nicer apartment . Norton couldn’t have made that much more money .
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