{"id":27727,"date":"2014-01-10T05:48:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27727"},"modified":"2016-10-27T07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T11:38:27","slug":"jackie-gleasons-first-television-appearancemost-of-us-that-remember-the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27727","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Gleason&#8217;s First Television Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jackie-Gleasons-First-Television-Appearance-Most-of-us-that-remember-The-Life.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Jackie Gleason&#8217;s First Television Appearance<\/p>\n<p>Most of us that remember &#8216;The Life Of Riley&#8217; think of William Bendix as the star, but actually, Jackie Gleason played &#8220;Riley&#8221; from October 4, 1949 to March 28, 1950. This video is the first episode of the show which ended first runs in March of &#8217;50. Bendix had played &#8220;Riley&#8221; on the radio show and in the 1949 film but his RKO contract kept him from the role till 1953.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ywYMJfyC6LU&#038;list=PLB009D73A5B870D96\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ywYMJfyC6LU&#038;list=PLB009D73A5B870D96<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S1E01-Life_Of_Riley-10_04_49-Tonsils_512kb.mp4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ywYMJfyC6LU?list=PLB009D73A5B870D96\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Life of Riley &#8211; Jackie Gleason &#8211; Tonsils &#8211; 1949 &#8211; Public Domain<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/10201543007403196\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Gleason&#8217;s First Television Appearance Most of us that remember &#8216;The Life Of Riley&#8217; think of William Bendix as the star, but actually, Jackie Gleason played &#8220;Riley&#8221; from October 4, 1949 to March 28, 1950. This video is the first episode of the show which ended first runs in March of &#8217;50. Bendix had played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27728,"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":[851,725],"class_list":["post-27727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-jackie-gleason","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27727","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=27727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}