For the show's premiere episode, Jackie portrays Reginald Van Gleason in a musical spoof of violent TV cop dramas and plays Joe the Bartender to Frank Fontaine's Crazy Guggenheim. In the Honeymooners ...

Jackie Gleason was "must-see TV" ages before anyone coined the phrase. In 1952, "The Great One" began hosting his own weekly CBS variety series, which included a fanciful array of characters of his ...

When Jackie Gleason suddenly up and announced his retirement from CBS television last winter, he got a wire of “appreciation” from an NBC vice president. The telegram was ill timed. In the first place ...

After the June Taylor dancers hoof their way through "Lollipops and Roses," Jackie discusses "the greatest aggravation in history." Barbara Heller introduces sketches: Rum Dum gives his pet a bath; ...