Fan Favorites: The Best of the Honeymooners - DVD

Since it's premiere on October 1, 1955, The Honeymooners has established itself as a cornerstone of American television. Amazing... considering that only 39 full-length classic episodes were filmed, all included in this collection! The brilliant and hilarious interplay between Ralph, Alice, Ed and Trixie set the tone for countless situation comedies through the years but none have quite captured the sheer magic of the Kramdens and the Nortons struggling to carve out their piece of the American Dream in Brooklyn. This comprehensive DVD collection is an everlasting monument to one of the funniest and most enduring TV shows of all time.

In 1951, film actress Lucille Ball and her musician husband Desi Arnaz spent $5,000 to produce a TV sitcom pilot about a Cuban-born bandleader named Ricky Ricardo, his zany, starstruck wife Lucy, and their madcap life in a Manhattan apartment. The result was the decade's biggest show and a landmark in TV history that ran until 1957. William Frawley and Vivian Vance co-star as the Ricardos' best friends and neighbors, Fred and Ethel Mertz. Two-disc set includes the colorized episodes InchPioneer Women,Inch InchLucy Does a TV Commercial,Inch InchJob Switching,Inch InchThe Million Dollar Idea,Inch InchBonus Bucks,Inch InchL. A. at Last,Inch InchLucy Gets in Pictures,Inch InchThe Fashion Show,Inch InchThe Dancing Star,Inch InchHarpo Marx,Inch InchLucy Visits Grauman's,Inch InchLucy and John Wayne,Inch InchLucy Goes to Scotland,Inch InchLucy's Italian Movie,Inch InchChristmas Show,Inch and InchLucy and Superman.Inch 6 3/4 hrs. Total. Standard; Soundtracks English Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles English (SDH), Spanish; audio commentary; featurette.

One of television's most influential and beloved comedy programs, the Honeymooners first appeared in 1951 as a series of skits on television's InchCavalcade of StarsInch before comic great Jackie Gleason was given his own program a year later. From 1952-1955 and 1956-1957, InchThe Jackie Gleason ShowInch featured dozens of classic Honeymooners productions broadcast live nationwide on CBS-TV, airing only once. For decades, these early Honeymooners telecasts were lost until Jackie Gleason began releasing them from his private film vault. Now, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the very first Honeymooners skits, MPI Home Video and Jackie Gleason Enterprises present the most complete collection possible of these rare gems, many of which have not been seen anywhere in 50 years or available previously on DVD. It's a treasure trove of the hilarious antics of hapless Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason), his long-suffering but loving wife Alice (Audrey Meadows), Ralph's neighbor and pal, sewer worker Ed Norton (Art Carney) and Norton's wife Trixie (Joyce Randolph). This is a must-have collection for any fan of classic television comedy which appeals to laugh-loving viewers of all ages.