Reliving History…More Of The Eddie Brinkmann Papers

‘The Jackie Gleason Show’ debuted on CBS September 20, 1952. Less than three months into his new show, he wrote this letter to his Studio 50 stage manager…Eddie Brinkmann. At the time, Eddie was also stage managing Ed Sullivan’s ‘Toast Of The Town’ from CBS Studio 51, which was the Maxine Elliot Theater. (Sullivan did not move to 50 until late in 1953.) Notice Jackie says “we have our NBC competition on the run”. Who was that? NBC’s ‘All Star Review’. In the next post, I’ll link to a rare full episode. Thanks to Eddie’s granddaughter Dee Wexler for sharing this.

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