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Every time I issue this correction I hope somebody will pay attention...hope springs eternal I guess:
The Honeymooners did not air on Du Mont. I should qualify that statement since the sketch was introduced on Cavalcade of Stars in 1951: if Audrey Meadows is in it, it didn't air on Du Mont. Gleason was lured away from Du Mont by CBS in 1952 and it was on his CBS show that Audrey Meadows first played Alice Kramden. When Gleason produced the "classic 39" episodes of The Honeymooners in 1955-56 there was no Du Mont network programming grid, all its shows other than Boxing having either ceased production or moved to other networks by the late summer of '55.
The Du Mont Electronicam was prominently featured in the show's credits, that and Gleason's previous association with Du Mont makes the conclusion easy to jump to...but The Honeymooners as we all remember it aired on CBS.
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05-13-2010, 05:17 AM
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