For the show's premiere episode, Jackie portrays Reginald Van Gleason in a musical spoof of violent TV cop dramas and plays Joe the Bartender to Frank Fontaine's Crazy Guggenheim. In the Honeymooners ...

The prodigiously talented Gleason became a TV icon after he joined CBS from DuMont, where his work on `Calvalcade of Stars' had established many of his trademark characters, including Reginald Van ...

Generations of television viewers know The Honeymooners best for the "classic 39" episodes of the show that originally aired during the 1955 to 1956 television season and have been rerun ever since.

When Jackie Gleason suddenly up and announced his retirement from CBS television last winter, he got a wire of “appreciation” from an NBC vice president. The telegram was ill timed. In the first place ...