Cavalcade of Stars, a variety show hosted by Jackie Gleason, was the birthplace of The Honeymooners ( Gleason took his variety show to CBS in 1952 but filmed the Classic 39 Honeymooners episodes at DuMont's Adelphi Theater studio in 1955-56 ).

The 39 syndicated episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed using Electronicam ( as well as the daily five minute syndicated series Les Paul & Mary Ford At Home in 1954 – 55 ), but with the introduction of a practical videotape recorder only one year away, the Electronicam system never saw widespread use.

During the 1954 – 55 season, most episodes consisted entirely of The Honeymooners.

It called for Gleason to produce 78 filmed episodes of The Honeymooners over two seasons, with an option for a third season of 39 more.

As a result of the superior picture and sound quality afforded by the Electronicam system, episodes of The Honeymooners were much more suitable for rebroadcast than most other " live " shows of the era.

All 39 episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed at the DuMont Television Network's Adelphi Theater at 152 West 54th Street in Manhattan, in front of an audience of 1, 000.

" At least three other Honeymooners episodes referenced Question: In A Woman's Work Is Never Done Ralph proposes to Alice that he go on the show because he's an expert in the " Aggravation " category.

Another episode of The Honeymooners, delivered one of the best known Question references – a parody of the show itself, in one of the so-called " Original 39 " episodes of the timeless situation comedy.

One program on their schedule in 1952 was Jackie Gleason's variety show on which he once performed a Honeymooners sketch on the Beat the Clock set with himself and Art Carney as contestants ( this sketch, titled " Teamwork: Beat the Clock ", was considered one of the " lost " Honeymooners episodes but has since been available on home video ).

A component during this period was the musical Honeymooners episodes, which had first been tried on Gleason's variety show during the 1956-1957 season.

To gracefully incorporate Gleason's weight loss into the show, especially in the Honeymooners episodes, it was explained that Ralph Kramden also had gone on a diet and lost weight.

Beginning in late December, 1970, CBS began airing selected reruns of The Jackie Gleason Show ( featuring only the color Honeymooners episodes ) in prime time on Sunday nights at 10 p. m. ( EST ), thereby replacing the short-lived Tim Conway Comedy Hour.

He is referenced in one of the Honeymooners episodes ( from Art ' Ed Norton ' Carney to Jackie ' Ralph Kramden ' Gleason ): " They wouldn't-a won that except some guy slipped in a Spade Cooley record.

La Rosa appeared on a range of television shows including The Honeymooners in 1953, What's My Line ?, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, The Polly Bergen Show ( two episodes, including the 1957 premiere ), The Merv Griffin Show and Laverne and Shirley in 1980.

The " classic 39 " episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed in this facility by DuMont using their Electronicam system for broadcast on CBS at a later date during the 1955-56 television season.

She played Alice Kramden, the long-suffering but sassy wife of bus driver Ralph Kramden ( played by Jackie Gleason ) on the musical-comedy colour episodes of " The Honeymooners " on The Jackie Gleason Show from 1966 to 1970 ( a role originally played by Pert Kelton and then, when Kelton was blacklisted, by Audrey Meadows and later Sue Ane Langdon ).

Their episodes have included Chuck Versus the Tic Tac, Chuck Versus the Honeymooners, Chuck Versus the First Fight, and Chuck Versus the Push Mix

Before he got that job, Jackson appeared in one of the best-loved among the so-called " original 39 " episodes of The Honeymooners.

The success of these skits resulted in the famous filmed situation comedy The Honeymooners, and the Honeymooners revivals that followed.

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

The Honeymooners was filmed using three Electronicam s.

These were so popular that in 1955 Gleason suspended the variety format and filmed The Honeymooners as a regular half-hour sitcom ( television's first spin-off ), co-starring Carney, Audrey Meadows ( who had replaced the blacklisted Kelton after the earlier move to CBS ), and Joyce Randolph.

Parks also had a recurring role as Little Tommy Manacotti ( the kid from upstairs ) on Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners.

In 2003, after an absence of more than 30 years, the color musical versions of The Honeymooners from the 1960s Jackie Gleason Show in Miami Beach were returned to television on the GoodLife TV ( now ALN ) cable network.

* Ed Norton, TV series character from The Honeymooners

His segments are also largely played for laughs, and at one point includes a scene alluding to his character Ed Norton from The Honeymooners, where an Imperial officer demands that he " get on with it " while Carney dallies with a prop.

In an episode of The Honeymooners, Ed Norton has a sleepwalking problem, and needs help from Ralph, Alice, and Trixie to stop it.

Fred's personality was based on that of Ralph Kramden of the 1950s television series The Honeymooners and Chester A. Riley from The Life of Riley.

This arose from a gag in episode 203, Jungle Goddess, in which Joel referred to " Art Crow " in a skit centered on the sitcom The Honeymooners ; after Best Brains received a letter from a child who had evidently missed the cultural reference and labeled a drawing of Crow as " Art ", the show's writers turned the name into a recurring joke.

Wendall Wittler from NBC News website called Cliff a " classic " character but found his friendship with Norm Peterson " superficial " and nothing compared to Ralph Kramden ( Jackie Gleason ) and Ed Norton ( Art Carney ) from the television sitcom The Honeymooners.

( A sidenote: most modern television viewers are aware of Captain Video only by his mention by Art Carney on The Honeymooners ; by the time the episode was aired, the show had already been cancelled, and the space helmet Carney wore was a commercially available toy marketed from Space Patrol.

In part, this was due to its unorthodox programming — in the 1980s, it carried on Saturday and Sunday mornings sitcom reruns such as Leave it to Beaver, and The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Honeymooners on weekday afternoons, and on Saturday nights ran science-fiction series such as Star Trek which ran on WVIA from 1984 to 1994, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, plus Lost in Space on Saturday mornings.

Burns and Smithers ' attempt to steal Bobo from the Simpsons mirrors Mission: Impossible, and their sitcom is similar to The Honeymooners.

Episodes varied from superhero type stories to parodies of shows like The Honeymooners (" Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy ") and the 1960s Batman series (" Night of the Bat-Bat " and " Bat With a Golden Tongue "), movies like Fantastic Voyage (" Mundane Voyage ") and Japanese monster films ( the opening of " Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy "), comic books (" See You in the Funny Papers "), and even lampooned other cartoons (" Don't Touch That Dial!

The FCC censors various television shows, such as Ralph Kramden's threats of physical violence in The Honeymooners, two-thirds of Dick Van Dyke's name in The Dick Van Dyke Show, Archie Bunker and wife Edith dressed as Ku Klux Klan members from All in the Family, The Waltons and Chrissy Snow's bikini in a Three's Company commercial.

In 1966, Coote appeared with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in an episode of " The Honeymooners " entitled " The Honeymooners in England ", broadcast on CBS-TV from Miami.

* The Honeymooners ( 1952 – 1970 ).

* The Honeymooners ( 1952 – 1970 ).

* The Honeymooners ( 1952 – 1970 ).

* The Honeymooners ( 1952 – 1970 ).

* The Honeymooners ( 1952 – 1970 ).

The Honeymooners ended again when The Jackie Gleason Show was canceled in 1970, the result of a disagreement in direction between Gleason and the network.