The only known copy of a previously lost episode of the classic sitcom, “The Honeymooners” has turned up in the Peabody Awards Archive at the University of Georgia. The episode, titled “Love Letter,” originally aired on Oct. 16, 1954, on “The Jackie Gleason Show,” where “The Honeymooners” ran as a series of 10-minute sketches starting in 1952.
Archivist Margaret Compton discovered the “Love Letter” episode during a preservation review of the archives’ kinescopes and videotapes. She said plans are being made by Gleason Enterprises to release the never-rebroadcast episode on home video.
The Peabody Awards Archive at UGA holds more than 40,000 titles, including radio programs dating from 1940 and television from 1948.
Read the AP story of the “Love Letter” episode at MyWay News.
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