Thursday, January 1, 2009

Best night of TV ever

So im going back and forth in my New Years tv watching this year, There is a Spider-Man animated series marathon on and the classic The HoneyMooners marathon on ch 11 wpix. so im going back an forth in tv goodness as I type this.

For it era The Honeymooners reflected the blue collar existence of its characters. The Kramdens' and the Nortons were dirt poor. I think thats what appealed to viewers , relatable characters Ralph and Alice would fight constantly, but at the end of the day there was an unspeakable love. After just one season, Gleason and CBS agreed to cancel The Honeymooners, after 39 episodes (this is taken from wiki so i don know how true it is )explaining his decision to end the show with $7 million remaining on his contract Gleason said, "the excellence of the material could not be maintained, and I had too much fondness for the show to cheapen it" Gleason subsequently sold the films of the "Classic 39" episodes of the show to CBS for $1.5 million.The Honeymooners gained its greatest fame in syndication, where it has aired almost continually since its cancellation. for more than four decades, there is a marathon on ch 11... fyi the flintstones, king of queens are lossly based on The Honeymooners.




Spider-Man: The Animated Series ran for five seasons (65 episodes) the series tells the story of a nineteen year old Peter Parker in his first year at Empire State University, and his alter-ego Spider-Man. the only real issue i have with this series is, it doesnt go with the comic books. There was a heavy censorship being enforced by Fox

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