"Jackie Gleason Show" filming "Honeymooners" at Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino 1966 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

ChrisTV · 10-20-2013, 10:54 PM

Some very nice photos from a special outdoor filming of the Jackie Gleason Show.

Looks like filming was Sept. 1966 for the Oct. 8, 1966 - "Honeymooners":
"Poor People of Paris" broadcast at the Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino in Miami.

Link to story:
http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/58634

There is incorrect info in the list, under title of work, based on the dates, this is not American Scene Magazine.

Link to Florida Memory site:

http://www.floridamemory.com/solr-se...ckie%20Gleason

The text of the article reads:

Nearly 6,000 people jammed into Gulfstream Park in Miami to watch the taping of a Jackie Gleason Show which will be televised October 8. A huge band shell was built on the famed horse track for this Gleason spectacular.

ChrisTV · 10-20-2013, 10:56 PM

Additional photos.

comedyfreak · 10-21-2013, 01:09 AM

Very cool!

Marvo301 · 10-21-2013, 01:42 PM

Cool pictures! Thanks for sharing!!

W.B. · 08-05-2025, 08:50 AM

Oct. 8 was the originally scheduled date, but I wonder if this - the first "variety" show of the 1966-70 color era - was postponed to either Oct. 22 or Nov. 26 (the latter date of which had a host of big bands, and I see from these photos that he was presiding over the orchestra bearing his name). Is there any record of who the guests were on this Gulfstream Park-taped show?

There are two photos of Gleason that may have dated to this show, as his hair and what he wore checked out. Both are from Alamy:

https://www.alamy.com/jackie-gleason...f&searchtype=0

https://www.alamy.com/jackie-gleason...f&searchtype=0

Both are misdated circa 1970, but based on the curtain behind him it was definitely of this vintage. That and his weight, which based on his 5' 9-1/2" frame would have been ~300 pounds at that point. (William Henry III's bio which cited a maximum weight of 335 lbs. pre-supposed that he was 6' tall, as his publicity machine kept insisting for years.)

Incidentally, those cameras were Norelco PC-60's, which likely came from the New York studios; they likely became surplus as the first PC-70's arrived at the Broadcast Center and other New York studios they had.

W.B. · 08-05-2025, 09:27 AM

P.S. This Gulfstream Park show actually turned out to have aired as the last of that first color season - on May 27, 1967. On that show were crooner Dick Roman (who later married Gleason's then-girlfriend Honey Merrill), The Flying Armors, The Great Bruno, Gleason's mood-music trumpeter Bobby Hackett, saxophonist Charlie Ventura, and The Kimris Duo. It must have had a LONG postponement. Though IMDb listed it as #1.28, it was actually #1.27. (28 episodes were actually taped that season; the other, the "Color Honeymooners" installment "Hair To A Fortune," aired in the next season.)

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W.B. Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 23, 2005 Location: New York, New York, USA Posts: 389	Oct. 8 was the originally scheduled date, but I wonder if this - the first "variety" show of the 1966-70 color era - was postponed to either Oct. 22 or Nov. 26 (the latter date of which had a host of big bands, and I see from these photos that he was presiding over the orchestra bearing his name). Is there any record of who the guests were on this Gulfstream Park-taped show? There are two photos of Gleason that may have dated to this show, as his hair and what he wore checked out. Both are from Alamy: https://www.alamy.com/jackie-gleason...f&searchtype=0 https://www.alamy.com/jackie-gleason...f&searchtype=0 Both are misdated circa 1970, but based on the curtain behind him it was definitely of this vintage. That and his weight, which based on his 5' 9-1/2" frame would have been ~300 pounds at that point. (William Henry III's bio which cited a maximum weight of 335 lbs. pre-supposed that he was 6' tall, as his publicity machine kept insisting for years.) Incidentally, those cameras were Norelco PC-60's, which likely came from the New York studios; they likely became surplus as the first PC-70's arrived at the Broadcast Center and other New York studios they had.
	Last edited by W.B.; 08-05-2025 at 08:52 AM. Reason: Camera info.

08-05-2025, 09:27 AM	#6
W.B. Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 23, 2005 Location: New York, New York, USA Posts: 389	P.S. This Gulfstream Park show actually turned out to have aired as the last of that first color season - on May 27, 1967. On that show were crooner Dick Roman (who later married Gleason's then-girlfriend Honey Merrill), The Flying Armors, The Great Bruno, Gleason's mood-music trumpeter Bobby Hackett, saxophonist Charlie Ventura, and The Kimris Duo. It must have had a LONG postponement. Though IMDb listed it as #1.28, it was actually #1.27. (28 episodes were actually taped that season; the other, the "Color Honeymooners" installment "Hair To A Fortune," aired in the next season.)
	Last edited by W.B.; 08-17-2025 at 02:08 PM.

10-20-2013, 10:54 PM	#1
ChrisTV Member Forum Regular Join Date: Aug 25, 2004 Posts: 773	"Jackie Gleason Show" filming "Honeymooners" at Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino 1966 Some very nice photos from a special outdoor filming of the Jackie Gleason Show. Looks like filming was Sept. 1966 for the Oct. 8, 1966 - "Honeymooners": "Poor People of Paris" broadcast at the Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino in Miami. Link to story: http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/58634 There is incorrect info in the list, under title of work, based on the dates, this is not American Scene Magazine. Link to Florida Memory site: http://www.floridamemory.com/solr-se...ckie%20Gleason The text of the article reads: Nearly 6,000 people jammed into Gulfstream Park in Miami to watch the taping of a Jackie Gleason Show which will be televised October 8. A huge band shell was built on the famed horse track for this Gleason spectacular. Attached Images