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Golden
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Andy
Griffith Show
Honeymooners
Lucy
Three
Stooges
Westerns
SCI-FI
Eighties
TV
Nineties
The Honeymooners was really television's first spin-off. Originally it was a running sketch from "The Calvacade of Stars" ('52).When Gleason got his own variety show on CBS, the first half included some stand-up and a big production number by the June Taylor Dancers. The second half hour was the Honeymooners. During the '55 to'56 season, 39 Honeymooners episodes were filmed before a live audience.The Honeymooners wasn't wildly popular when first aired. In fact, CBS dropped the show to return to a new version of the old variety "Jackie Gleason Show" in which the Honeymooners was again the second half sketch.
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