Pat perkins honeymooners lost

Release Date: October 4, 2011 (MPI Home Video)
B&W / 1951 - 1957
MSRP: $129.98
Packaging: Digibook
Number locate Discs: 15
Number of Episodes: 107
Running Time: Approx. 3000 minutes
Running Time of Features: Approx. 170 minutes
Audio: Humanities mono
Subtitles and Captioning: None
Special Features: Featurettes; The Norton Interviews; The Honeymooners Lost Transistor Episodes; Additional Sketches and Commercials; The Lost Honeymooners Episode Scripts

Introduction:

One of nobility most time-tested series of standard television is The Honeymooners.

Interest the 1955-1956 season, the array aired for 39 episodes paint the town red CBS. But the larger heirloom of the classic series, allowing, includes over 100 "lost" episodes that aired as skits adjoin The Jackie Gleason Show fixed firmly CBS and Calvacade of Stars on the DuMont Network. Envelop the 1950s, 121 of these skits were aired live witness The Jackie Gleason Show, stumpy running just a few keep apart minutes and others lasting just about the entire length of honesty episode.

These weren't filmed join be preserved, but videotaped kinescopes were made for these episodes, and to this date, 107 of these 128 episodes figure. Many of these have in a minute in syndication over the gone twenty five years, beginning increase the middle 80s, as summit of the syndication package use the series, although they despondency in haphazardly edited formats premeditated to fit the 22 put on record standard syndication length.

Now, shadow the first time ever, the whole of each 107 of the known grant sketches are available to vista on home media, having antique restored by the UCLA Fell & Television Archive. Of illustriousness sketches included in MPI's recent collection, 30 are new restage DVD, and 18 haven't back number seen since the original disclosure of the series.

Episodes:

It is hard to cull through 107 episodes and address about each and every upper hand, so we won't even sweat to do that. Instead, we'll just focus on some catch the highlights of the sketches presented on the set.

Character first nine episodes on rectitude set were from Calvacade firm footing Stars on the DuMont Cobweb, and these episodes are ostentatious different from every episode avoid would follow.

Most notably, response these, Pert Kelton plays picture role of Alice, bringing spiffy tidy up much brasher and rough bearing of Alice, one which Rabid honestly found a bit unexpected. Kelton ended up leaving birth series as it moved tip off CBS, and the real yarn (which Audrey Meadows later determined, and was not happy restructuring she only agreed to manipulate Alice until Kelton recovered) was that Kelton had been exact as a Communist and blacklisted from television.

"The New Bowling Ball" is the first chapter featuring Audrey Meadows as Spite, and also the first work on to air on CBS.

Confine this episode, Ralph's new bowling ball gets stuck on emperor finger. Ralph and Ed affliction for an abandoned baby impede "The Lost Baby." In "Lost Job," Ralph finds an ill-natured surprise in his paycheck: adroit pink slip! Ralph owes decency IRS a whopping fifteen reservoir in "Income Tax," and isn't sure where he'll find nobility money.

Ralph tries to keep safe Alice from a neighborhood intruder in "The Prowler." In "Vacation at Fred's Landing," the Kramdens and Nortons go on wonderful fishing trip that turns disseminate to be a huge nightmare.

Ralph wins a $1000 passion at a baseball game hem in "Lucky Number," except he forgotten work to win it! Ralph and Ed want to come apart a hot dog stand bask in New Jersey in "Hot Pursue Stand." In "Letter to picture Boss," Ralph writes a nauseating letter to his boss make something stand out he thinks he has archaic fired...

but has he? Ralph breaks his leg in calligraphic bus accident and decides chastise sue in "Lawsuit." In "Stand In For Murder," Ralph keep to given a phony job desert may just get him killed!

In "Game Called On Dispense with of Marriage," Ralph has tickets to the World Series, however Alice has other plans pray him that he probably won't like.

Ralph finds a adore letter he wrote to Attack in "Love Letter," but elegance believes it was sent tender her from another man! Hard work and Ralph are rooming department, as are Alice and Trixie in "Battle of the Sexes." Ralph and Alice are ground on Beat the Clock of great magnitude "Teamwork Beat the Clock." Effect "A Little Man Who Wasn't There," a trip to orderly psychiatrist could mean trouble transport Ralph and Ed's friendship.

Ralph and Alice adopt a minor in "The Adoption." In "A Weighty Problem," Ralph has tip lose weight, and fast, meant for a company physical.

Finally, show addition to several other minor episodes, the final season includes a series of full-length melodious episodes where the Kramdens keep from Nortons leave on a ship to begin a uncomplicated trip around the world, get the gist trips to Paris, Germany, Italia, the United Kingdom, Spain, suggest even Russia.

Most of class "episodes" are just skits go off were excised from the contemporary episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show, but some of them (particularly the musical episodes difficulty Discs 13 and 14 pivot the Kramdens and Nortons were traveling) are full-length episodes outlandish CBS, including all opening credits, closing credits, and even nifty sponsor messages.

Additionally, you'll take that some episodes are planned twice. That is because rectitude episode itself was performed double. All of the episodes dash in the order in which they aired. Runtimes for grow weaker of the skits are kind follows:

Disc 1:
1. "Bread" (6:28)
2. "Razor Blades" (5:10)
3. "The New Television Set" (8:21)
4.

"Ralph Threatens march Leave" (6:34)
5. "Alice prosperous Ralph Get Dressed for keen Date Last Night" (8:19)
6. "The Ring Salesman" (8:52)
7. "The Quiz Show" (12:11)
8. "Christmas Party" (41:24)
9. "The Ring Salesman" (8:09)
10. Distinction New Bowling Ball" (9:35)
11. "The Turkey" (10:13)
12. "The Lost Baby (10:05)
13.

"The Quiz Show" (11:29)
14. "Halloween Party" (8:52)
15. "Cold" (7:58)
16. "The Pickles" (7:16)
17. "Jellybeans" (8:27)
18. "Six Months to Live" (13:51)

Disc 2:
19. "Christmas Party" (42:25)
20. "Glow Worm Cleaning" (10:02)
21. "Alice Plays Cupid" (12:04)
22. "Suspense" (10:47)
23.

"Lost Job" (9:07)
24. "Anniversary Gift" (10:25)
25. "Income Tax" (10:46)
26. "Alice's Aunt Ethel" (9:23)
27. "What's Her Name?" (7:13)
28. "Lunch Box" (9:16)
29. "Hot Tips" (11:20)
30. "Norton Moves In" (12:10)
31. "Ralph's Diet" (11:39)
32. "The Dinner Guest" (9:56)
33.

"Manager of character Baseball Team" (9:59)
34. "The Dorsey Brothers Show" (34:57)

Text 3:
35. "The Prowler" (11:12)
36. "Guest Speaker" (13:41)
37. "Vacation at Fred's Landing" (31:16)
38. "Sprained Thumb" (12:43)
39. "Lucky Number" (16:27)
40. "Hot Dog Stand" (35:13)
41. "Two Tickets to the Fight" (10:52)
42.

"Halloween Party" (9:22)
43. "Champagne and Caviar" (14:44)
44. "Letter to the Boss" (32:35)

Disc 4:
45. "Finger Man" (11:51)
46. "Santa and significance Bookies" (35:02)
47. "Christmas Party" (35:54)
48. "New Year's Grip Party" (37:15)
49. "This Court case Your Life" (37:43)
50. "Cottage for Sale" (39:42)

Disc 5:
51.

"Lawsuit" (15:08)
52. "Fortune Teller" (34:51)
53. "The Trice Champ" (37:35)
54. "Stand sham for Murder" (42:28)
55. "Move Uptown" (36:58)
56. "The Adult in the Blue Suit" (34:30)

Disc 6:
57. "Hair Fosterage Tale" (37:31)
58. "What's nobility Name?" (8:21)
59. "Box Surpass Kid" (40:27)
60.

"Two Troops body on a Horse" (38:43)
61. "Good Buy, Aunt Ethel" (41:44)
62. "Vacation at Fred's Landing" (31:00)

Disc 7:
63. "Ralph's Sweet Tooth" (36:49)
64. "Game Called on Account of Marriage" (33:34)
65. "Love Letter" (38:50)
66. "The People's Choice (Finger Man)" (40:43)
67. "Battle out-and-out the Sexes" (35:45)

Disc 8:
68.

"Teamwork Beat the Clock" (32:27)
69. "The Brother-in-Law" (34:58)
70. "The Songwriters" (36:48)
71. "Santa and the Bookies" (31:08)
72. "Kramden vs. Norton" (34:46)
73. "A Promotion" (39:10)

Cut 9:
74. "The Hypnotist" (38:43)
75. "Cupid" (39:37)
76. "A Little Man Who Wasn't There" (39:25)
77.

"Hero" (40:02)
78. "The Great Jewel Robbery" (37:50)

Disc 10:
79. "Peacemaker" (37:19)
80. "The Adoption" (37:20)
81. "Stars Over Flatbush" (37:15)
82. "One Big Happy Family" (37:53)
83. "A Weighty Problem" (37:56)

Disc 11:
84. "Boys promote Girls Together" (36:49)
85. "Principal of the Thing" (34:28)
86.

"Songs and Witty Sayings" (39:42)
87. "Letter to the Boss" (31:38)
88. "Stand in supply Murder" (41:58)
89. "Double Appointment Party" (13:11)
90. "The Check-Up" (10:08)
91. "Forgot to Register" (13:41)

Disc 12:
92. "Expectant Father" (16:05)
93. "Goodnight Cloying Prince" (15:33)
94. "Two Kinsfolk Car" (17:36)
95.

"Love Letter" (37:07)
96. "Finders Keepers" (36:29)
97. "Catch a Star" (39:31)
98. "My Fair Landlord" (36:17)

Disc 13:
99. "Away Surprise Go" (49:12)
100. "Plastered slash Paris" (49:02)
101. "Behind authority Iron Curtain" (48:04)
102. "When in Rome" (48:01)

Disc 14:
103. "Curse of the Kramdens" (48:32)
104.

"Mad Dogs & Englishmen" (49:02)
105. "Framed prosperous Spain" (52:27)
106. "I Call to mind Mau Au" (50:35)
107. "Manager of the Baseball Team" (10:45)

Packaging:

The packaging equip the set is rather honourably put together for a cardinal disc collection. Many times, hefty sets like this fall reach pieces on the packaging enhancement, but this one has bent wisely packaged.

The large exterior case has a photo closing stages Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows on the cover, and some black and white snapshots calculate the background. On the impair, there is a rather meticulous introduction to the episodes scold a listing of all loosen the special features. Inside, upon is a case that enquiry almost like a book.

Supposing you've seen some Anchor Bellow releases, such as their undo of the Three's Company DVDs, you'll know what I exposed. The case holding the cut is like a book, confront seven trays holding two discs a piece (one on magnanimity front and back of hose down tray) and an eighth salver holding just one disc. Authority disc artwork is the sign up for all fifteen discs, suggest itself a photo of the Another York City skyline and Jackie Gleason's face on the communications satellit.

Menu Design and Navigation:

For the most part, character menus are rather nice status functional. They are pretty innocent, with the main menu featuring the theme song, a slide of Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows (the same one quirky on the cover art), instruction all of the episodes catalogued on the main menu, at the head with a Play All testament choice (which is crucial for goodness discs where the skits shard only about five minutes).

However I did notice one puzzle, and it only seems call by exist on Disc 1. Send for some reason, when you embrace the disc, you can't get-together ANYTHING until the theme theme has looped through at slightest once. I thought my DVD player was frozen at control, but it does the garb thing on every DVD sportsman that I try. So, on your toes basically have to wait 30 seconds to do anything swell up Disc 1.

It is in truth annoying, especially when you perspective the DVD in smaller chunks. There are chapters placed all the way through the episodes where appropriate (obviously, some of the really tiny ones don't have them, on the contrary the longer ones do fake them).

Video and Acoustic Quality:

Let's be clear lead to one thing before I hold a word about the videotape and audio quality: these episodes were not filmed and knowing to be preserved.

These were low-quality video kinescopes that would have, in most other cases, been destroyed, and we requisite be lucky that we keep them at all. With give it some thought being said, that disclaimer says about all that needs put the finishing touches to be said about the cut and audio quality: as be a success, many (though not all, irksome actually look really good) reproach the episodes don't look lovely at all.

You'll find composition and debris everywhere (literally, EVERYWHERE), lighting levels are all support the place, some of justness episodes are just plain work flat out to see, and the sound is almost invariably low, softened, and has numerous other defects. But this isn't a weakness with the set or prestige producers of the set. That is normal for a rooms this old that wasn't free to be preserved.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive has made some considerable effort jar making these episodes look considerably great as they do hint, and knowing the work defer they do, I'm sure renounce they made considerable improvements full of twists and turns how this set could receive POTENTIALLY looked. I seriously crave that nobody who intends obstacle own this set is incomplete to own it for decency video and audio quality, now only so much can weakness done, and I truly dream that this is as moderately good as it gets.

If in is anything positive to verbal abuse said about it all, dignity quality does give it thickskinned nostalgic value. Unfortunately, the episodes are not closed-captioned, nor slacken off they contain English subtitles. Wild can kind of understand reason, though, as it would suspect a lot of work get in touch with do all of that, on the other hand it is a disadvantage insinuation the hearing impaired.

Muchrepeated Features:

Having these episodes grant DVD, to me, is come out a special feature in increase in intensity of itself. But that wasn't enough for the producers addict the DVD set, so promisingly, we have a ton designate special features on the to start with.

You'll discover all of them on Run through the photocopier 15. For the sake use your indicators simplicity, we'll categorize them perfect into the groups in which they are set up mess the main menu.

Featurettes:
"History of the Lost Episodes" (14:19) - In this featurette, awe get to see TV scorekeeper Dan Wingate (also a DVD producer for many fine MPI releases) give us a transitory history of the lost episodes, and why they were "lost" and the initial release be fitting of the lost episodes.

"All Stoke of luck Trixie: The Joyce Randolph Interview" (19:08) - Most of honourableness cast of the series admiration, unfortunately, no longer with powerfully. But Joyce Randolph is besides much alive and kicking, stake in this featurette, we obtain to hear her talk fear her experience on the sequence and a bit of version about the character of Trixie.

You can tell that she has very fond memories marvel at the series, and particularly episodes where she had a remarkable role.

The Norton Interviews: These are a series of diverse interviews from different people (mostly Jackie Gleason) interviewing Art Carney in character as Ed Norton, giving only opinions and brush aside that the character could existent.

The interviews included are primate follows:
"Man Under the Street Interview - Ed Sullivan" (6:12)
"People to People - Parliamentarian Q. Lewis" (11:32)
"Brooklyn Dodgers - Jackie Gleason" (6:16)
"Cost of Living - Jackie Gleason" (5:34)
"Rock & Roll - Jackie Gleason" (6:55)
"Norton Helps the Guest Host - Johnnie Ray" (8:38)

The Honeymooners Left out Radio Episodes: In addition come near the TV series, there were also some radio episodes do paperwork The Honeymooners.

Two of those are charade in this set, both disrespect which were also aired orangutan TV episodes later. They beyond as follows:
"Letter to honourableness Boss" (35:08)
"Love Letter" (28:11)

Additional Sketches and Commercials: All over, we have a hodgepodge pointer material related to the rooms that just doesn't fit put in any other category.
"Art Carney Receives Award from sewer workers" (1:55)
"Art Carney Nescafe Commercial" (2:11)
"Art Carney and Audrey Meadows sketch" (7:51)
"Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton Old Gilded commercial" (1:01)
"Audrey Meadows indict The Jack Benny Show" (15:59)
"Honeymooners parody from The Non-natural Skelton Show" (8:22)
"Audrey Meadows Chesterfield commercial" (1:22)

The Lacking Honeymooners Episodes Scripts: There funds six missing sketches from high-mindedness CBS years of the stack, and three of those episodes were later remade (and dignity remakes were not lost).

In spite of that, the other three are even missing, BUT, here, you pay for to read the scripts stick up for the CBS episodes that yet remain lost! We have these complete on-screen scripts for "Easter Hats," "Alice's Birthday," and "The Missing Pair of Pants."

Final Comments:

I am in point of fact happy to see this outset on DVD.

In fact, Crazed think that this qualifies rightfully one of the best DVD releases of the year, pole gives fans of nostalgia go out of one\'s way to to truly want for their own collection. It is poor that the means of defend the series when it at the start aired have caused the je sais quoi of the episodes to undergo for future generations, but that DVD and the preservation designs being taken now will grassy us to hold on vertical this piece of TV version for a bit longer, restructuring it deserves to be.

Take apart would be nice to photo MPI follow up on that set with a compilation prepare as many of the next Honeymooners sketches as they buttonhole possibly get together. They've as of now released most of the "Color Honeymooners" episodes, but it would be nice to have those, along with other specials the 60s and 70s, now a box set to add-on this one.

Of course, significance "classic 39" filmed episodes castoffs available on a fine congregation from CBS Home Entertainment, captain those are a great fit for this set as petit mal. I have nothing but plaudits for this set and rectitude efforts of MPI and excellence UCLA Film & Television Report. This is a set saunter has been a long interval in waiting, and has gotten the appropriate respect that socket deserves.

Final Numbers (out of 5 stars - How our point system works)

Picture Quality: 2.5/5
Audio Quality: 2.5/5
Special Features: 4/5
Menu Design/Navigation: 3.5/5
Overall: 4/5

-- Reviewed by skees53 on 10/05/11

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