The Jackie Gleason Show - Time Life's 'In Color' 10-DVD and 'Deluxe Collection' 25-DVD Sets Both now available as direct-sale items from the TL website
Posted by David Lambert	10/09/2017
This past week, Time Life released a pair of online-exclusive items for sale, centered around The Jackie Gleason Show. The first one, a 10-DVD set sold for $99.95 SRP (broken into "5 Easy Payments of $19.99 [each]"), focuses on the 1966 show of that name, which was in color. The other, a deluxe release with 25 DVDs that sells for $199.90 SRP ("5 Easy Payments of $39.98 [each]") has all the same material, plus additional material that includes lots of laughs from the black-and-white '50s TV show of the same name! Below is the breakdown on what you'll find in each set. Our thanks to longtime reader Greg Brobeck for being the first to email us about these items: The Jackie Gleason Show - In Color From the sun and fun capital of the world, Miami Beach... The time has come for the triumphant return of "The Great One"! Jackie Gleason was our working-class hero, and his smash-hit show brought us an hour of non-stop entertainment every week. The singing, the dancing, the hilarious comedy, the huge stars, and best of all, The Honeymooners, all in brilliant color! Now you can let Jackie entertain you any time you like with 27 incredible full-color episodes on 10 DVDs of The Jackie Gleason Show including 7 Honeymooners sketches that haven't been seen in nearly 50 years! So take your television, and your family, back to the good ole days. And away we go! You'll get 10 DVDs including: 27 never-before-released episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show IN COLOR Including 7 Honeymooners sketches that haven't been seen since they first aired! Guest stars include Milton Berle, Jack Benny, George Burns, Lucille Ball, George Gobel, Bob Newhart, Tony Bennett, Gene Kelly, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, and many more! Plus the rare TV special with Jackie and Julie Andrews - Julie & Jackie: How Sweet It Is. Julie even plays Ed Norton in a Honeymooners sketch! A Bonus DVD of Dean Martin's Celebrity Roast of Jackie. His good friends team up to take him down and Jackie loves every minute of it. And a 20-Page Collectible Book with rare photos and original scripts! All episodes have been beautifully restored from the original masters and closed captioned. 20 hours of hilarious, heart-warming humor! The Jackie Gleason Show - In Color: Deluxe Collection 50 more hours of classic Jackie Gleason comedy! The time has come for the triumphant return of the Great One! Jackie Gleason was our working-class hero, entertaining audiences for decades. Now you can enjoy Jackie any time you like with this deluxe DVD collection - the complete set of lost Honeymooners episodes from 1951-1957 plus the best of The Jackie Gleason Show IN COLOR from 1966-1970. The singing, the dancing, the hilarious comedy, the huge stars, and best of all, The Honeymooners! So take your television, and your family, back to the good ole days. And away we go! You'll get 25 DVDs including: The complete existing collection of all 107 Honeymooners live episodes! Plus 27 never-before-released episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show IN COLOR including 7 color Honeymooners sketches that haven't been seen since they first aired! Guest stars include Milton Berle, Jack Benny, George Burns, Lucille Ball, George Gobel, Bob Newhart, Tony Bennett, Gene Kelly, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, and many more! Plus hours of extras including: Original curtain calls, cast commercials, and color home movies from set! The rare TV special with Jackie and Julie Andrews - Julie & Jackie: How Sweet It Is. Julie even plays Ed Norton in a Honeymooners sketch! A Bonus DVD of Dean Martin's Celebrity Roast of Jackie. His good friends team up to take him down and Jackie loves every minute of it. And two Collectible Memory Books with rare photos, original scripts, and a history of The Honeymooners. 70 hours of hilarious, heart-warming humor!