Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years past as co-stars of Your Show of Shows. Imogene seems hopelessly bogged down in inferior material. Caesar has been saddled with a story line that succeeds in making him a good deal more cantankerous than comic. Perhaps unconsciously, his show appears designed as a replay of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners on a considerably higher income level. Caesar's continuing sketch, The Commuters, deals with suburbanites. In this framework, he plays a grown-up juvenile delinquent whose temper tantrums and general unpleasantness make him the despair of his wife (Nanette Fabray) and his friends. Writers...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Jackie Gleason in Peacock City...
...Jackie Gleason Show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS). With Audrey Meadows, Art Carney...
...hands did well enough. Balloon-shaped Jackie Gleason (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS) growled, grinned and blustered his way through a refreshingly lively one-hour situation comedy. Red Buttons (three Fridays a month, 8 p.m., NBC) returned with a hatful of new routines and old Bronx-accented characterizations. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC) was as agile as ever. Groucho Marx was again quizmaster on You Bet Your Life (Thurs. 8 p.m., NBC) and insulting his guests while paying them money...
...comics came back, too, Milton Berle continued to subject his brash bounciness to the restrictions of a story line. Jackie Gleason returned with even more beautiful girls (36) and, with the expert help of Art Carney and Audrey Meadows, reeled off another good slapstick episode of The Honeymooners...