The Jackie Gleason Show - Season 2

1. Sprained Thumb

Aired: 9/19/1953

Ralph sprains his thumb while driving the bus. When he demands his own doctor examine him instead of following the company doctor's opinion, the doctor also notices something wrong with Alice as well.

2. Lucky Number

Aired: 9/26/1953

While at a ball game with Ed, Ralph wins a $1000 as part of a contest at the ball park. When they get home Ralph tells Alice all about all the things he going to spend the money on but she thinks they should put in the bank. Later when they decide to celebrate they decide to do it at home with some Chinese food. He sends Ed and Trixie leaves obviously upset.

3. Episode S0203

Aired: 10/3/1953

4. Hot Dog Stand

Aired: 10/10/1953

Ralph and Norton try to collect enough money to open a hot dog stand in New Jersey.

5. Two Tickets to the Fight

Aired: 10/24/1953

Ralph has a chance to go to a important fight but Alice's uncle George is coming over. He fakes being ill to get the uncle to leave. This plan fails when Ed asks Uncle George to go since Ralph is sick. So Ralph is left home.

6. Halloween Party

Aired: 10/31/1953

The Kramdens and the Nortons are going to a Halloween party. Alice has made their costumes and Ralph doesn't like his. He decides to go a bum and rips up his only suit. Alice tries to stop him but he insists he won't need the suit again.

8. Champagne and Caviar

Aired: 11/7/1953

Ralph's boss is coming over, and he thinks that if he makes a big impression on him he'll get the next big promotion. So he puts on a suit, and gets champagne, caviar, and Cuban cigars. Mr. Marshall spends only a little time with Ralph and when he leaves he wants Ralph to come to work early to help him show the board how they can cut the other drivers pay because Ralph is getting along so well on his salary.

9. The Honeymooners: Letter to the Boss

Aired: 11/14/1953

10. S02E10

Aired: 11/21/1953

11. Finger Man

Aired: 11/28/1953

Ralph spots a wanted criminal on his bus. He comes up with a story that the bus has broken down to get people off the bus and notifies a cop. The bad guy is caught and Ralph is a hero. The press and the police chief show up at Ralph's house just in time to find out that the bad has escaped and vowed to get the guy who turned him in.

12. Honeymooners Christmas Party

Aired: 12/5/1953

13. Santa and the Bookies

Aired: 12/12/1953

Believing that Alice is pregnant, Ralph takes a job as a sidewalk Santa, with Norton as his helper, in order to earn extra money. But they are unaware of the fact that their new bosses are bookies who are using Ralph and Norton as a front to receive their betting slips.

14. Cottage for Sale

Aired: 1/23/1954

Ralph and Ed spring an idea on their wives to buy a $989.00 cottage. Alice and Trixie are against it, Ralph talks Alice and Trixie into looking at the model. Once they see it the girls love it, Ralph wants to do the negotiating and after finding out the model they were looking at is double the price they expected they take a deal that will supposedly give them the same place minus a "few simple extra's". After they buy it they find out on their first trip to the cottage they were snookered by the salesman and the place they bought is a run down shack. They wind up stuck there the first night and the couples wind up fighting over whose mistake the purchase was. Once they got back to the city and settle their argument they try to unload the cottage to recover their money.

15. S02E15

Aired: 1/30/1954

16. Guest Host: Ed Sullivan

Aired: 2/6/1954

17. Guest Host: Robert Q. Lewis

Aired: 2/13/1954

guest stars: Earl Wrightson, Lois Hunt, Jaye P. Morgan, Jan Arvan, Don Liberto

18. Guest Host: Garry Moore

Aired: 2/20/1954

19. Guest Host: Red Skelton

Aired: 2/27/1954

20. Guest Host: Art Carney

Aired: 3/6/1954

21. Guest Host: Eddie Fisher

Aired: 3/13/1954

22. Guest Host: Jane Froman

Aired: 3/20/1954

23. The Lawsuit

Aired: 3/27/1954

Ralph Kramden attempts to sue his employer the bus company for $10,000 negligence.

24. Fortune Teller

Aired: 4/3/1954

After claiming that all fortune tellers are fake, a fortune teller gives Ralph a free reading. She stops the reading abruptly and refuses to go on. This put Ralph into a panic and he visits the fortune teller the next day only to have her tell him that he will murder someone in the next seven days.

25. The Next Champ

Aired: 4/10/1954

Dynamite Moran a small-time fighter from Altoona comes to New York to make it big, stops by pool room to say hello to Norton through his uncle Herman... Ralph becomes his manager with Norton training him with a promise of getting him fights through Ralph's contact Jack Philbin ( George Petrie) fight promoter, while staying with Ralph and Alice.

26. Stand-In for Murder

Aired: 4/17/1954

A big-time New York mob boss is holed up in his luxury suite, since the rival Barney Hackett gang is intent on rubbing him out. The boss plans to run off to South America, but has no chance of eluding Hackett....that is, until two of his henchmen encounter a certain bus driver named Ralph Kramden, who is an absolute dead ringer for the boss!

27. Move Uptown

Aired: 4/24/1954

The Kramdens have found a nice new place in the Bronx they want to move to; one big problem the landlord won't let them out of their lease. He must sub-let the place first. After an abortive attempt to move without a sub-letting Ralph decides to force the landlord to throw him out by breaking all the rules of the building.

28. The Man in the Blue Suit

Aired: 5/1/1954

Ralph wins $73.85 playing poker. He wants to avoid giving all his winnings to Alice so he hides his winnings in a suit he hasn't worn for 5 years. While he's away a charity comes by and asks for any unwanted items. When Ralph finds out what happened to his suit he gets Ed to help him try to get it back.

29. Hair-Raising Tale

Aired: 5/8/1954

Ralph over hears two men arguing in the park and intercedes on the smaller ones behalf. While trying to calm down the little man he finds out that they were fighting over a "miracle hair restorer." Supposedly the bigger guy wanted to buy the formula for the hair restorer and the little guy wouldn't sell.

30. Jackie Gleason Celebrates 25 years in Show Business

Aired: 5/15/1954

31. Boxtop Kid

Aired: 5/22/1954

Alice gets Ralph to go down to see her sister and brother-in-law off on cruise to Europe. Ralph wasn't very happy about it, he doesn't like his brother-in-law anyway so this was to much to take. While on the boat he sees all the other prizes they won, this leads Ralph to the idea of buying a bunch of foods that are running contests.

32. Two Men on a Horse

Aired: 5/29/1954

Ralph gets elected treasurer of the Raccoon Lodge and as part of his duties he takes home $200 that was collected for the Raccoon Dance. He was supposed to deposit it in the bank. After he's unsuccessful retracing his steps he manages to raise $8.00 that he quickly loses when he tries to double his money playing pinball.

33. Goodbye Aunt Ethel

Aired: 6/5/1954

Alice's Aunt Ethel comes to visit, forcing Ralph to sleep in the kitchen for 3 weeks. Anxious to get rid of her, Ralph tries to set her up to marry one of his single friends.

34. SE02E34

Aired: 6/12/1954

35. Vacation at Fred's Landing: Re-Staging

Aired: 6/19/1954

The Kramdens and the Nortons are about to go on vacation together. The wives want to go to Atlantic City; but the husbands want to go to Fred's Landing for a fishing and camping trip. This is a remake first aired in June 1953

41. Margaret Hamilton, Garry Moore

Aired: 6/26/1954