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All good material; not all Honeymooners
This is very enjoyable if only for all the hard to find footage it has...all the Honeymooners material is from lost episodes, nothing from the classic 39. I noticed that some of the themes used in lost episodes here were repeated later in the classic 39, such as Alice attempting to "seduce" Ralph by dressing up and offering up a fancy dinner, and Ralph getting laid off and arguing with Alice about her working. This video contains some of Jackie Gleason's best anger bits which he made so funny. Also the live audience's reactions make such a difference for the viewing experience when you hear individual people in the audience cracking up (check out the aforementioned skit when Ralph gets laid off, there is a guy in the audience who must have hurt himself laughing so hard).
My only complaint is that only about half the material on this 50 or 55 minute tape is Honeymooners; the rest are skits of Jackie Gleason's other characters such as Reggie von Gleason III, the hilarious Rudy the Repairman, and others. They are great in their own right, but I wanted HONEYMOONERS. And the skits with non-Ralph Kramden characters are not "Greatest Battle" skits, they are simply funny situations but not the world wars that Ralph was so funny with. For that reason, the small presence of Honeymooners material, I rated this three stars - very good considering. By the way, if you WANT the skits with other Gleason roles, this is the perfect video for you! Buy it, don't overpay for it.