Posted on 07/25/2015 7:19:29 PM PDT by shineon
My Dad and I used to watch the Jackie Gleason Show. Dad turned 90 last June, but his memory is not so good and I don't have anybody to share these memories with anymore. So I thought someone on free republic might have some.
I found a large collection of old TV guides while cleaning out the old family farmstead, many of which date from about the 1957-1960 era. What a fantastic time for TV back then (I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and many shows from that era now look like “Masterpiece Theatre” compared to what is on now). I love seeing the Westerns that were on most nights of the week with the obvious ones like “Bonanza” and “Gunsmoke”, along with “The Texan”, “Maverick”, “Riverboat”, and “The Rebel”. The variety shows too must have been grand entertainment as well with Gleason and I would have loved to have watched the Dinah Shore Chevy Show and to have been able to have watched it in colour, as it was one of the first colour shows NBC made back then.
Pls see my posts... co u ld not agree more.
Hate auto correct...
Yes, I remember that. Then there was this ...
They built their stages on a turntable so they could rotate from one bit to the next. The show was telecast live, and one night, the turntable stuck between two sets. So Jackie had to come out from behind the curtains and free lance for what may have been the rest of the hour. He was chain smoking and sweating bullets.
I had a friend Peter Muchmore. One day he called himself Littleless. I always thought that was a nice bit of self deprecating humor.
Great series of movies...
Johnny Yumah was a Rebel. I believe that was sung by Johnnie Cash.
Swanne River
“It’s fun playing with Gleason....He has the only cart with a bartender”! Bob Hope.
Wow!!
They are probably worth something...or perhaps a museum would be interested. Actually...that is history...
Battery dying now... take care all.
Crazy Guggenheim and Joe discuss the movie The Hustler. Crazy says he remembers the guy who played Minnesota Fats used to be on the Art Carney show
clip..1960s / The Jackie Gleason Show
Two thumbs up...
My favorite is the scene where Norton is going through a pre-swing routine that goes on and on and finally Gleason starts screaming “Just hit the ball”.
I think it takes place at the golf course.
Norton: Reading, It says “Address the ball”!
Norton: Hello ball!
Ralph: Will you- ( goes nuts)
Joe the bartender would talk to Mr. Dennehy, an invisible character. My history teacher told me years ago that Mr. Dennehy took in Gleason when his mother passed , leaving him an orphan at 16. Mr. Dennehy lived in Bayonne. Gleason always referred to Bayonne in his shows and he often stopped in several Bayonne gin mills because he loved the town.
sweet
We saw Jackie Gleason at the Miami Airport, but were respectful and didn’t approach him.
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