Product Details

• Actors: Art Carney, Sheila MacRae, Jane Kean Jackie Gleason, Frank Fontaine June Taylor Dancers
• Directors: Seymour Robbie
• Producers: Jack Philbin
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Goodtimes Home Video
• Run Time: 53 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002ZL1H4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,748 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The first show of 1962 with guest Art Carney. Wayne Newton and his brothers are guest stars. Frank Fontaine is Crazy Guggenheim and tells Joe the Bartender about "The Hustler". This program features a special "Honeymooners" sketch where they argue about vacationing in Atlantic City or a fallout shelter. The AMERICAN SCENE ran from September 29, 1962 to June 1966 on CBS. This is classic Jackie Gleason television at its finest. "How sweet it is!"

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars O.K. but not outstanding, August 15, 2007

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Ed "Prophecy Reader" (Eielson AFB, AK) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Jackie Gleason American Scene (VHS Tape)

If you are a Jackie Gleason fan, this tape may well be worth the purchase. I think Gleason hit his highest moments in the 50s vs. the 60s. Still, it was funny nontheless. I only bought this tape because it included a skit of The Honeymooners. It was funny but not the same; the 60s Honeymooners did not include Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph so I did not find the skit as good. (Sue Ann Langdon played Alice and Patrica Wilson played Trixie; note the cover on the video is wrong.) Buy a used copy as I did and you are better off.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Correction on cast, December 9, 2006

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P. N. Kerner "what's my line junkie" (cleveland, ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Jackie Gleason American Scene (VHS Tape)

Note that Patricia Wilson and Sue Ann Langdon played Trixie and Alice in the Honeymooner's skit not Jane Kane and Sheila MacCrae as noted on the box.

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality, November 20, 2009

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Morgan Leigh (New York) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Jackie Gleason American Scene (VHS Tape)

Too bad the quality of this great television show and the June Taylor Dancers is so poor. These shows should be remastered so we can really see Jackie and the dancers instead of the fuzzy, flipping, scratched film.