Color Honeymooners on Hallmark

[Pavan]

Also new on the schedule for fall is the series acquisition The Color Honeymooners, which premieres Saturday, October 6 (7-8 p.m. ET/PT). New episodes will be broadcast on Sundays beginning Sunday, October 7 (11 p.m.-Midnight ET/PT). Known as the Miami episodes, the forty-three rare and newly discovered one-hour, color episodes star TV legend Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean in sketches based on a perennial cornerstone of classic television The Honeymooners.

The Color Honeymooners, Saturday, October 6 (7-8 p.m. ET/PT) and Sunday, October 7 (11 p.m.-Midnight ET/PT) Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean star in color sketches of The Honeymooners. These color episodes, most which have not been seen in more than 30 years, are from the personal archive of Jackie Gleason Enterprises. Basic Cable Premiere.

[Sean Snow]

THis makes Hallmark even better- so far they've aired since it's premire this August: "Here Come the Brides", "Roots", "Bewitched", "I Dream of Jeannie", "My 3 Sons", and "Happy Days"! Hallmark should become a all classic station IMO. They also air a western called "Rifleman" and a drama: "Hart to Hart"

[TV Guy]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Aaron Barnhart's TV Barn (www.tvbarn.com) is reporting today that a Hallmark spokeswoman told him today that plans to air these episodes, which were going to start this weekend, have been "shelved indefinitely".

I wonder what happened. My guess is that there were royalties issues (some former cast member or relative of a former cast member turned up and demanded residual payments).