Let's face it, there will never be a show like The Honeymooners with the great, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph again. Gleason plays bus driver, Ralph Kramden, and Meadows plays his long-suffering, loving, and supportive wife, Alice. Carney is the dim-witted sewer neighbor and best friend with Randolph as his loving wife, Trixie. The episodes were always excellent and it is shown annually in a marathon on New Year's Day in the New York City area. I still think the writing, the acting, the comic genius timing of the cast, and the chemistry is what made it unforgettable. While it only lasted a season or two, even then network executives did not know the brilliance and canceled it after forty episodes maybe because of Gleason or whatever. The show is a brilliant legacy of New York City television in the golden age where shows were filmed in New York City. The Honeymooners will be forever immortal with DVD collections. For those of us, my father was one of the show's biggest fans and would watch it religiously at 11:30 every night. The channel stopped showing it at that time. It was replaced repeatedly with more colorized shows but the magic was gone. The Honeymooners will live forever in the hearts and minds of us who have grown up with it and were thrilled to find the lost episodes. This show is a classic because it has transcend time. It relates to the same problems as the working class of the 1950s for the 21st century. Even in Black and White, it's still gorgeous, unforgettable, timely, classic, and just brilliant comedy.
Review of The Honeymooners
