Honeymooners in September

Looks like the orginal Honeymooners will be out on dvd in September or October. I hope they do this right.

 

*bang zoom...to the moon Alice*

 

Can you post a link for your source?..Thanks!

 

When I was a junior in high school, me and a buddy of mine saw Billy Joel in concert in 1986. The running gag of the show was that Billy would start nearly every song with the chorus to 'Swanee River' followed by DA DA DA.....DA...Da......Da......and then launch into whatever song he play next.

I didn't realize 'til about 6 years later that this was taken from that classic Honeymooners episode where Ralph enters a 'name that tune' type of contest on a TV show. Because, of course, Billy Joel never acknowledged this fact, but I'm sure many of the older people and Honeymooner's fans in the audience got the joke. Me and my friend just thought it was damn funny. Great memory.

 

Forget the source link request...I found it at the Digital Bits..Looks like separate DVD releases and not a BOX SET??? Hmmm, I wonder how many episodes per DVD? Columbia House has 6 per DVD...I believe in the proper run order.

 

Oh! You mean that song Ed Norton wrote?

Actually you didn't have to be older back in '86. For a long time, and I mean a long time probably from the mid 70s to mid 80s, the Mooners were on every night on our local NY station WPIX at 11 or 11:30 pm or after the Yankee game. Those same 53 (54?) episodes over and over. This was follwed by the orginal Star Trek. Considering Joel is a New Yorker, and a Yankee fan, its not hard to see how this happened.

 

"If I could just forget about the ball I could play a great game"

 

Yes, growing up in NY the great, late 70's schedule was:

11PM - The Odd Couple
11:30 - The Honeymooners
12AM - Star Trek (The only series, at least back then)
1AM - The Twilight Zone

This schedule ran for years & years...

Todd

 

You betcha! I'd love Season DVD Box sets of the Odd Couple! I already have all the Twilight Zones...and i'm waiting on the Honeymooners! Great shows indeed!

 

Holy Cow! I remember that schedule, watched everynight...

 

I wonder how many *complete* episodes of "The Jackie Gleason Show"/"Cavalcade Of Stars" are extant. It'd be very interesting to see some of those make their way to DVD.

 

Gleason: "Norton, address the ball!"
Carney: "Hello, ball!"

Great stuff, that and Lucy are practically the only TV stuff from the '50's that still holds up today. Gleason and Carney were the Laurel and Hardy of their day. I look forward to seeing the DVD's. BTW, our CBS affiliate here in Vermont still shows the Honeymooners every morning from 9-10AM.

Evan

 

Hey Evan,

Please stop telling me things like that........ i'm already having a hard enuf time not packing my bags and moving to Vermont!

-Jeffrey

 

That, and OTHER things, eh Jeffrey!

Evan