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Here are (mostly) TV comedy classics: the very best from the "Golden Age of Television" (primarily the 1950's). Back then, each network had its own array of live prime-time comdey variety shows like THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR, TEXACO STAR THEATRE, THE RED SKELTON SHOW, CAVALCADE OF STARS and YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS. These programs served to showcase the most brilliant comedic talent of the decade, including Red Skelton, Cid Caesar, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle and Jackie Gleason. It was also a golden age of classic TV sitcoms, starring George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny (with his crazy crew) and Lucille Ball, the "First Lady of Television" - as she was at her very best on "I Love Lucy". Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the laughs were often live (and unplanned) and the brightest stars in the TV galaxy were these LEGENDS OF COMEDY. This tape contains: JACKIE GLEASON: "The Great One" - with Art Carney in The Honeymooners; SID CAESAR: master mime and comic supreme on YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS; MILTON BERLE: "Uncle Miltie" the "Thief of Bad Gags" who became famous as "Mr. Television"; JACK BENNY: was he really vain, stingy and forever 39 years old? Well!!!; EDDIE CANTOR: bright 'n' breezy, ever energetic "ol' banjo eyes"; GEORGE BURNS & GRACIE ALLEN: cigar-flicking George and that gentle, zany, scatterbrained Gracie; DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS: comedy classics from the crooner and the cretin; LUCILLE BALL: at her very best with Ricky, Fred & Ethel on I LOVE LUCY; RED SKELTON: sight gags and seltzer, pantomime and pratfalls from TV's most beloved buffoon.....and more!