The Honeymooners Intro

[SuuperGoo]

A sweet baby im sorry you do'nt have views like south park

[le238man]

@MeddleOnline Yes, I agree that was a travesty.

[jmjfanss]

@MeddleOnline

Got that right, I Love cedric the entertainer, but the movie was the pits.

[WSenator1]

@MeddleOnline - I figured as much. I saw the trailer and said, No Way I'm Seeing This! That sound you heard was either for the bomb that it was, or Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and Audrey Meadows rolling in their graves - and Joyce Randolph not feeling too hot, either!

[cold732]

the best of all time

[yiassoufile]

watch this every new years eve. classic show.

[crakhadshizzakizza]

king of queens

[trizzy77]

this and the golden girls will always be my favorite!!!

[fromthesidelines]

Yes, Jackie was indeed credited for writing this theme {"You're My Greatest Love"}, with lyricist Bill Templeton, 'oger'. His picture was on the original sheet music cover...

[tohotxox]

classic!

[OgeronimonominoregO]

Didn't Jackie Gleason write this music? I thought I read that somewhere. Great music.

One of the best tv shows ever. Used to watch it at 11:00 pm every night on channel 11 (NY).

[wmbrown6]

The first NYC station to rerun "The Honeymooners" after it entered syndication was WRCA-TV (now WNBC-TV), which ran it on Tuesdays at 7 P.M. from 1957 to 1958. WPIX picked it up thereafter.

[simonesimone2]

gosh i love this music, love the show too. but those horns sound awesome

[MikeLutton]

anyone got clip of original openign with the bus

[rolko52]

@MikeLutton There is a clip on YT, but it looks like a crude copy of a video camera capturing a television image on the screen. Hopefully a cleaner version pops up.

[cmulwee001]

This is the syndicated opening. The original network opening had the fireworks followed by

a bus going down the streen with the actors' names zooming forward.

[powerpop19]

ya i know what you mean with the music i'm 13 and it really transports you back in time

[gazork123]

I know exactly what you mean, powerpop19; even though I'm an old-timer I was still born after this show was on the air, but grew up watching the reruns. There truly is magic to the older music and the TV shows, and especially when I was in my teens, I really wished that I could have come of age in the 40s and 50s.

[Delphi333]

I don't know what it is about this music...and this intro...but it takes me back...somehow...and I'm not even old enough for it to! I just love it!!! :-)

[dmaradona10]

This remindes me of back to the future

[opossumland5]

around 69 early 70s jackie gleason had the color show from miami beach

[russellhughes84]

how sweet it is.

[EarlSnohomish]

I was still in diapers, but I remember those color episodes on CBS back then (American Life shows them on Friday nights now). These episodes were also the only musical ones.

[CloseToYouM]

I watch this at dinner time almost every night with my family.

Love it!

[VerrazanoLover]

I love the theme opening and the show I am 38and love the show I am glad they have the Jackie Gleason Bus depot in brooklyn the one that I like is vacation at freds landing

[brazinbread]

nice post. i grew up in denville nj. remember listening to this when my parents watched it also. thanks for posting.

[ShinbiBelldandy]

I miss the Honeymooners New Year's Marathon!!! I'm only 21 but this is one of my fav shows. Late night tv sucks now..

[EarlSnohomish]

I can remember first watching this show on WPIX during the early Seventies. Been a fan ever since.

"Hello, ball!"

[tanquantwal]

Me too but in the 80s after the Odd Couple

[hazyandlazy]

I remember staying at my grandparents house in the 60's and listening to them watch this show in Belleville NJ. Grand memories.

[notMEbabe]

I hear ya dude/ette. I am from Denville NJ. Great state.

[Delphi333]

I'm from next door! I used to watch it every night at 11:00 - classic T.V. :)

[rolko52]

My father and I would stop at "The Denville Shack" after playing golf for burgers. Around 1966-1970.

[brazinbread]

yeah now its a burger king. still there?? remember china royal! i worked at the grand union forever.

[primeralives]

I'm from Los Angeles ,CA and I remember this theme song from when I was watching these with my parents. Funny how a theme song can rake you back to a certain place and time. Those were great times.

[birdman9594]

the best show in the world

[EarlSnohomish]

If you're picking the greatest sitcom of all-time, "The Honeymooners" has to be on the short list.

[fromthesidelines]

This is the "standard" opening title, seen in syndication after 1957 {featuring CBS announcer Gaylord Avery}. The original title had Jack Lescoulie as announcer, leading into a "Buick" sponsor I.D. [the moon morphs into a "Buick" steering wheel, leading to a Buick traveling down an open road]- "Brought to you by...YOUR BUICK DEALER! And away we go..!"

[143AC]

Great Tune...it's called

"You're My Greatest Love"

and in regards to how "Ralph"felt

about "Alice"..she is his "Greatest Love!".

[prausch65]

How true, he does mistreat Alice at times,but she is the "greatest" always at the end.

[prausch65]

The first ever television sit-com,it has one of the simplest and most identified intros of all time.

[rolko52]

It was not the first sitcom on television ("I Love Lucy" and a score of others preceeded it), but it is certainly one of the most enduring from that era.

[prausch65]

Was I Love Lucy one year before. The Honeymooners intro is better.

[RobinMetrocolor]

"I Love Lucy" started 1951, "The Honeymooners" started 1955, and plenty of sitcoms came before, Such as "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show", "Mary Kay and Johnny", "The Goldbergs", "The Beulah Show" among others.

[prausch65]

Thank you for the correction RobinMetrocolor, indeed the shows you mention were memorable, but The Honeymooners set the standard for its intro and entertainment value.

[EarlSnohomish]

Jackie Gleason's version of "The Life of Riley" was 1949.