{"id":27342,"date":"2014-02-20T06:51:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27342"},"modified":"2016-10-26T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T23:16:17","slug":"reliving-history-more-of-the-eddie-brinkmann-papersthe-jackie-gleason-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27342","title":{"rendered":"Reliving History&#8230;More Of The Eddie Brinkmann Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliving History&#8230;More Of The Eddie Brinkmann Papers<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Jackie Gleason Show&#8217; debuted on CBS September 20, 1952. Less than three months into his new show, he wrote this letter to his Studio 50 stage manager&#8230;Eddie Brinkmann. At the time, Eddie was also stage managing Ed Sullivan&#8217;s &#8216;Toast Of The Town&#8217; from CBS Studio 51, which was the Maxine Elliot Theater. (Sullivan did not move to 50 until late in 1953.) Notice Jackie says &#8220;we have our NBC competition on the run&#8221;. Who was that? NBC&#8217;s &#8216;All Star Review&#8217;. In the next post, I&#8217;ll link to a rare full episode. Thanks to Eddie&#8217;s granddaughter Dee Wexler for sharing this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/637837662920453\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Reliving-History...More-Of-The-Eddie-Brinkmann-Papers-The-Jackie-Gleason-Show\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/637842452919974\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliving History&#8230;More Of The Eddie Brinkmann Papers &#8216;The Jackie Gleason Show&#8217; debuted on CBS September 20, 1952. Less than three months into his new show, he wrote this letter to his Studio 50 stage manager&#8230;Eddie Brinkmann. At the time, Eddie was also stage managing Ed Sullivan&#8217;s &#8216;Toast Of The Town&#8217; from CBS Studio 51, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,822,851,782,725],"class_list":["post-27342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-ed-sullivan","tag-jackie-gleason","tag-nbc","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}