Product Details

• Actors: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Jane Kean
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: May 4, 2010
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0036U0B0U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,457 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Honeymooners Return For Their Final Series Of Long-Lost Specials- In Color!
In 1976, Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney and Jane Kean reunited for the first of four hour-long specials representing the final performances of their classic Honeymooners characters.
 
Alice Kramden secretly plans to buy husband Ralph a suit for Valentine s Day but Ralph thinks she s sizing him up for a coffin after he finds incriminating items, including a life-insurance policy. Believing Alice is seeing another man, Ralph gets pal Ed Norton to join him undercover, dressed in drag.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice special overall, May 28, 2010

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Donald J. Wurzelbacher (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Honeymooners: Valentine Special (DVD)

The Honeymooners aired four specials in the 70s after Gleason's show was off the air. This Valentine Special is one of two that MPI just released. The other was "Second Honeymoon". Out of the two, I think this one is funnier but none can compare to the classic 39. It's great to see Audrey Meadows reprise her role as Alice. I wish that Joyce Randolf would have been willing to fly down to Miami Beach to play Trixie but obviously that didn't happen. I enjoyed watching this video and I am pleased that MPI is releasing them. I understand the next two will also be released later this year. I will purchase them all. The problem for me is that they're pricey when you consider all you get is one 50 minute special. As I mentioned in a previous review, I would rather have had all four specials released in one package with a good price and label it "The Honeymooners specials" or something like that. That's the main reason why I give it only 3 stars. The gags were funny overall even though some of them were reused from other "lost episode" scripts but these newer shows just aren't as hilarious as the originals. The cast is very much showing their age on these specials. Art Carney can't really make any fat jokes at Ralph because he's about the same size as Ralph now. However, it's just nice to have these episodes. I still hope MPI comes out with the rest of the lost black and white episodes with Audrey Meadows in them from the late 50s variety shows as well as even the very originals with Pert Kelton.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The third and last of the 70s Honeymooners specials!, July 26, 2010

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Robert Badgley (St Thomas,Ontario,Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Honeymooners: Valentine Special (DVD)

Despite the blurbs about four specials and all in 1976,this is the third and last special made and broadcast in Feb/78.The others were the Second Honeymoon(Feb/76-see my review on that)and the Christmas Special(Dec/77-yet to be released).
Audrey Meadows returns as Alice,Jane Kean returns as Trixie,Art Carney of course returns as Norton and Jackie as Ralph.The story here involves Alice secretly working part time as a switchboard operator to make enough money to buy Ralph a Valentine's gift.When Ralph finds a piece of paper Alice has stashed that reveals some notes re her work and the name of a man,he thinks she is cheating on him.Furthermore as the plot progresses and Ralph's thoughts get the better of him,he thinks Alice is also trying to kill him!Through alot of miscues and hilarious misunderstandings the truth outs itself and all is forgiven.In a fitting end to the Honeymooner's last appearance on television,Ralph,Alice,Trixie and Ed sit around the Kramden kitchen table surrounded by a bevy of new appliances Ralph has finally bought.There are also as many exposed wires as new gadgets.When Ralph clicks the remote to the TV all his modern conveniences blow up one by one.The Kramdens it seems were just never meant to live in the modern age.Ed gets the last word as he says:"Ralph,I think the toast is burnt!".
Like the TV specials before it this was filmed not in Miami Beach,but in Miami proper at Gusman Hall and is in colour.The show runs in at 50 minutes minus its' opening dialogue but it includes the ending and Gleason's intro-ing of the cast.Also included is a clip from The Kopycats TV show of Jan.20/71.It is a parody sketch of the Honeymooners with Rich Little as Norton,black comedian George Kirby as Ralph and Sheila Macrae as Alice.Interesting but nothing more.One will also notice a "different" opening theme...or not.As it turns out it is a dixieland rendering of his normal theme Melancholy Serenade.And as a kind of perspective on things it was by now that Carney had won his OSCAR for his role in Harry and Tonto and Gleason was well into his roles as the ornery sheriff of the Smokey and the Bandit movies.
All in all this too is another must have DVD for all of the Honeymooners and Gleason fans out there.It's the last of the Honeymooners specials which is impetus enough to buy this DVD but the show is just plain wonderful in and of itself.Get yours today.Let's hope MPI releases the Christmas special sometime soon to complete the collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great to see Gleason & Co. back!!, May 19, 2010

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Marc Siciliano (Ocean, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Honeymooners: Valentine Special (DVD)

Much better than the Second Honeymoon special. This recapture's the magic of the classic 39. A must have for any Honeymooners fan. I can't wait for the two christmas specials to be released.