Fri, Sep 28, 1962
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 sketch, Jackie is joined by Sue Ane Langdon, Art Carney and Patricia Wilson as the Kramdens and the Nortons: for their summer vacation Ralph and Ed decide to turn their apartment building's basement into a air raid shelter leaving their wives to suffer on the beach at Atlantic City. Wayne Newton and his siblings, as The Newton Brothers are the musical guests.