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« on: April 10, 2008, 09:15:26 pm »

Years ago, in the Golden Age of TV, there was CBS, NBC, ABC...and The DuMont Network. The DuMont Network was home to such classics as Captain Video and Wrestling from War Memorial Arena...it was also the network that a little show called THE HONEYMOONERS, starring Jackie Gleason, got it's start. In the future, I hope to post some clips from some of the old DuMont shows.

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« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2008, 06:03:31 am »

How cool you learn something new every day
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2008, 11:07:42 am »

Before Monty Hall became "TV's Big Dealer" on "Let's Make a Deal", he had a game show on the DuMont Network


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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2008, 12:51:20 pm »

That was great!  You easily forget how grainy and how poor the lighting was in those early days.  But man did they rely heavely on their sponsers or what?  Huh   It was like 1 min of show for every 3 of in show-commericals.  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2008, 05:48:43 pm »

Moons, first I want to say WELCOME to the Island! I know ther had to be some Bingo game in there somewhere...but it's certainly true that the old shows relied heavily on their sponsors!
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2008, 08:34:31 pm »

In July 1950, Jackie Gleason took over as the host of Cavalcade of Stars, a variety show that aired on the DuMont Television Network. After a few episodes, Gleason and his writing staff developed a sketch that drew upon familiar domestic situations for its material. Gleason wanted a realistic portrayal of life for a poor husband and wife living in Brooklyn. The couple would fight constantly, but ultimately show their love for each other. After rejecting titles such as "The Beast", "The Lovers", and "The Couple Next Door", Gleason and his staff settled on "The Honeymooners" for the name of the new sketch. Gleason took the role of Ralph Kramden, a blustery bus driver, and he chose veteran comedy movie actress Pert Kelton for the role of Alice Kramden, Ralph's acerbic wife."The Honeymooners" made its debut on October 5, 1951, as a six-minute sketch. Castmember Art Carney made a brief appearance as a police officer who gets hit with a pie Ralph had thrown out the window. The tone of these early sketches was much darker than the later series, with Ralph exhibiting extreme bitterness and frustration with his marriage to an equally bitter and argumentative middle-aged woman (Kelton was nine years older than Gleason). The Kramdens' financial struggles mirrored those of Gleason's early life in Brooklyn, and he took great pains to duplicate on set the interior of the apartment where he grew up (right down to his boyhood address of 328 Chauncey Street).The Kramdens (and later the Nortons) are childless, an issue never explored, but a condition on which Gleason insisted.Early additions to the cast of later sketches were upstairs neighbors Ed and Trixie Norton. Ed (played by Carney) was a sewer worker and Ralph's best friend, although his innocent and guileless nature was the source of many arguments between the two. Trixie Norton (maiden name unknown), Ed's wife, was originally portrayed as a burlesque dancer by Elaine Stritch, but was replaced by the more wholesome looking Joyce Randolph, after just one appearance. Trixie is a foil to Ed, just as Alice does for Ralph, but derivatively, and almost always off-screen. Due in part to the colorful array of characters that Gleason invented (including the cast of "The Honeymooners"), Cavalcade of Stars became a huge success for DuMont. It increased its audience share from nine to 25 percent. Gleason's contract with DuMont expired in the summer of 1952, and the financially struggling network was unable to re-sign him.

In later years, the first prime-time cartoon was loosely based on the "The Honeymooners"...the modern stone-age family, "The Flintstones".


Enjoy this clip of Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners, originally aired on The DuMont Network in 1951.

Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners, 1951, DuMont Network
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« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2008, 07:06:03 am »

I loved the flintstones
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« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2008, 08:58:18 am »

I always tell my hubby that he has Fred Flintstone feet and laughs like Barney Rubble!!  lol
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