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...past four years, I Love Lucy has been No. 1 on just about every rating poll. Last week, in the Trendex ratings for December, Lucy sagged to sixth place, and the No. 1 spot went to television's fastest rising comic, Jackie Gleason, who has abandoned most of his longtime characterizations (Reggie Van Gleason, Joe the Bartender, The Loud Mouth) to concentrate on The Honeymooners (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS), in which he is the embodiment of bustling inefficiency...
Drama, Comedy. In his first straight dramatic role, TV Comic Jackie Gleason gave a taut and convincing portrait of an unscrupulous politician on Studio One, in a play by Carey Wilbur called Short Cut. Gleason not only looked the part, with his suety face and alderman's stomach, but for most of the play he put aside the comic's tools of obviousness and loudness in order to make his character dramatic and believable...
...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...