The honeymooners

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Television series
German title The honeymooners
Original title The honeymooners
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1955-1956
Production
company		 Jackie Gleason Enterprises
length 25 minutes
Episodes 39 in 1 season
genre Comedy
production Jack Philbin,
Stanley Poss,
Jack Hurdle
music Sammy Spear
First broadcast October 1, 1955 (USA) on CBS
occupation

The Honeymooners one was (English for honeymooners) American Comedy - Sketch -Show 1950s.

The show took place at 328 Chauncey Street, Bensonhurst in Brooklyn , New York , fifteen years after the Great Depression . Married couples Kramden and Norton live in a tenement house there. Ralph Kramden, a bus driver, and his wife Alice and their friends and neighbors Edward L. Norton, a sewer worker, and his wife Thelma Trixie struggle through life in short, sketch-like episodes.

The Honeymooners ran in 1951 as a sketch series on the DuMont Television Network Cavalcade of Stars show and in 1952 with Ralph Kramden's lead Jackie Gleason on The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS. The series is considered the forerunner of the Flintstones family ( The Flintstones ) and is often quoted and parodied, for example in The Simpsons , Family Guy and King of Queens . Based on the series, the comedy film Honeymooners , released in 2005, starring Cedric the Entertainer , Mike Epps , Gabrielle Union and Regina Hall was filmed. Jackie Gleason, who is considered the developer of the series and whose character Ralph Kramden was the template for Fred Flintstone from the Feuerstein family , wanted to sue the producers of the animated series Hanna-Barbera for this. Friends and colleagues advised him not to become "the man who killed Fred Feuerstein".

The Dutch series Toen Was Geluk Heel Gewoon is also based on The Honeymooners .

literature

  • Katsigeorgis, John: To The Moon: The Honeymooners Book of Trivia - Official Authorized Edition . Metrobooks, 2002, ISBN 1-58663-694-4 .
  • McCrohan, Donna and Crescenti, Peter: The Honeymooners Lost Episodes . Workman Publishing, 1986, ISBN 0-89480-157-0 .
  • Meadows, Audrey: Love, Alice: My Life as a Honeymooner . Crown Publishers, 1994, ISBN 0-517-59881-7 .

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