The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners is a 1950s situation comedy and one of the most-loved (and most-imitated) television comedies of all time. In the early 1950s, Jackie Gleason hosted a variety show, originally titled Cavalcade of Stars and airing on the DuMont Television Network. On the show (which moved to CBS in 1952 as The Jackie Gleason Show), Gleason enacted a number of recurring characters in comedic skits; the most popular of these involved featured Gleason as a Brooklyn bus driver named Ralph Kramden; Pert Kelton (and later Audrey Meadows) as his long-suffering wife, Alice; and Art Carney as Ralph's sewer-worker pal, Ed Norton. The skits became so popular that CBS offered Gleason an opportunity to produce and star in a half-hour sitcom with the characters, titled The Honeymooners. Meadows and Carney (along with Joyce Randolph as Norton's wife Trixie) followed Gleason to the new show, and the first episode aired on October 1, 1955. In all 39 episodes were created by the time the series ended in 1956. Gleason retained the rights to the reruns, which became extremely popular with an almost cult-like following. He later sold the series to CBS for a reported sum of $1 million.

Episodes

List of the 'classic 39' episodes:

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• 1 - TV or Not TV
• 2 - Funny Money
• 3 - The Golfer
• 4 - A Woman's Work is Never Done
• 5 - A Matter of Life and Death
• 6 - The Sleepwalker
• 7 - Better Living Through TV
• 8 - Pal O' Mine
• 9 - Brother Ralph
• 10 - Hello Mom
• 11 - The Deciding Vote
• 12 - Something Fishy
• 13 - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
• 14 - The Man from Space
• 15 - A Matter of Record
• 16 - Oh My Achin' Back
• 17 - The Babysitter
• 18 - The $99,000 Answer
• 19 - Ralph Kramden, Inc.
• 20 - Young at Heart
• 21 - A Dog's Life
• 22 - Here Comes the Bride
• 23 - Mama Loves Mambo
• 24 - Please Leave the Premises
• 25 - Pardon My Glove
• 26 - Young Man with a Horn
• 27 - Head of the House
• 28 - The Worry Wart
• 29 - Trapped
• 30 - The Loudspeaker
• 31 - On Stage
• 32 - Opportunity Knocks
• 33 - Unconventional Behavior
• 34 - The Safety Award
• 35 - Mind Your Own Business
• 36 - Alice and the Blonde
• 37 - The Bensonhurst Bomber
• 38 - Dial J for Janitor
• 39 - A Man's Pride