I'm used to the B&W eps of the Honeymooners and really don't want to buy the Color eps since I never saw them before. Are the Color eps worthing watching? Is there any difference at all from the B&W eps besdes the COLOR?

Loads of differences, the main one being it is more like a variety show (since it is) with singing. Also Aurdrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph aren't in it. They are an hour long and they were made roughly ten years latter after the C39. They are still quite enjoyable though. I noticed similar plots in them. If you get American Life it will air tomorrow at 8 PM. I think 7 PM as well and then a repeat at 11 PM.

Loads of differences, the main one being it is more like a variety show (since it is) with singing. Also Aurdrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph aren't in it. They are an hour long and they were made roughly ten years latter after the C39. They are still quite enjoyable though. I noticed similar plots in them. If you get American Life it will air tomorrow at 8 PM. I think 7 PM as well and then a repeat at 11 PM.


Well thanks for letting me know now I know for a fact I'm not buying them-lol

Watch it on TV first, I am sure you will like it. They are still very funny. If I knew you wanted to see it I would have thrown one on your DVD.

I saw one episode of the Color Honeymooners and hated it. No Alice,(Audrey Meadows) why bother

I saw one episode of the Color Honeymooners and hated it. No Alice,(Audrey Meadows) why bother


Then I wonder why they have Audry Meadows on the front Cover of the Color Honeymooners DVD? False Advertisement?-lol

Then I wonder why they have Audry Meadows on the front Cover of the Color Honeymooners DVD? False Advertisement?-lol

They don't.
You might be looking at a 'Lost Episodes' box.

Here is the 'Color' box. It has Sheila MacRae (Alice) and Jane Kean (Trixie) on it.

Did they end each Color Episode by saying-"Good Night Everybody?"

See Post #6 of this thread:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=173858

I just don't feel like typing the same thing over again. :)


The only way I would watch if it was given to me as a gift. But like you said the different wives and the color probably would make it hard to watch

I was always under the impression that the episodes in the 1969-1970 season were, for the most part anyway, brand new Honeymooners shows. Can anyone tell for sure?

I was always under the impression that the episodes in the 1969-1970 season were, for the most part anyway, brand new Honeymooners shows. Can anyone tell for sure?

Ben, I believe you are right. I don't think any of the episodes during that final season were remakes of earlier shows. They started out the season winning a song-writing contest and winning a trip to the west coast. They were the final bunch of original shows made.

That's what I thought, Rob. I haven't seen any of these shows (yet anyway) but I know that one episode has the Kramdens and Nortons on I think the Tonight Show or the Mike Douglas Show (not sure which one) and then the last few episodes they were back in the apartment. The last episode has to do with Alice's nephew protesting the bus company. That's about all I know about the shows from that year.

That's what I thought, Rob. I haven't seen any of these shows (yet anyway) but I know that one episode has the Kramdens and Nortons on I think the Tonight Show or the Mike Douglas Show (not sure which one) and then the last few episodes they were back in the apartment. The last episode has to do with Alice's nephew protesting the bus company. That's about all I know about the shows from that year.

Yup, it was the Mike Douglas Show. Incidentally, Gleason co-hosted the Mike Douglas Show (in reality) for 2 weeks when Mike brought his show to Miami Beach in 1972 or 1973 (I forget exactly). I've been trying to find tapes of those 10 shows...but no luck yet.

Yup, it was the Mike Douglas Show. Incidentally, Gleason co-hosted the Mike Douglas Show (in reality) for 2 weeks when Mike brought his show to Miami Beach in 1972 or 1973 (I forget exactly). I've been trying to find tapes of those 10 shows...but no luck yet.
There's an important detail I note about "The Honeymoon Is Over" (the episode which guested Mike Douglas): In the first of the scenes that took place on the set of Mr. Douglas' show, Norelco PC-60 cameras (used by the Miami studio where Gleason taped his show the last four years it was on the air) were in view at the start. However, Mike's daytime gabfest, mostly taped at the time at KYW-TV studios in Philadelphia, used RCA TK-42 cameras from c.1966-67 to about 1973 when they upgraded to TK-44A's.

But back to the actual Douglas show: It wasn't just in 1972. Gleason also co-hosted Douglas' show for a spell in the great outdoors in 1976, on which such stars as Sean Connery and Michael Caine appeared as guests.