Episodes
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1. Sprained Thumb
19 Sept 1953 · 12 min
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.
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2. Lucky Number
26 Sept 1953 · 16 min
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.
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3. Episode S0203
3 Oct 1953 · 16 min
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4. Hot Dog Stand
10 Oct 1953 · 35 min
Ralph and Norton try to collect enough money to open a hot dog stand in New Jersey.
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5. Two Tickets to the Fight
24 Oct 1953 · 10 min
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.
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6. Halloween Party
31 Oct 1953 · 16 min
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.
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8. Champagne and Caviar
7 Nov 1953 · 14 min
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.
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9. The Honeymooners: Letter to the Boss
14 Nov 1953 · 14 min
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10. S02E10
21 Nov 1953 · 14 min
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11. Finger Man
28 Nov 1953 · 14 min
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.
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12. Honeymooners Christmas Party
5 Dec 1953
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13. Santa and the Bookies
12 Dec 1953 · 31 min
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.
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14. Cottage for Sale
23 Jan 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.
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15. S02E15
30 Jan 1954
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16. Guest Host: Ed Sullivan
6 Feb 1954
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17. Guest Host: Robert Q. Lewis
13 Feb 1954
guest stars: Earl Wrightson, Lois Hunt, Jaye P. Morgan, Jan Arvan, Don Liberto
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18. Guest Host: Garry Moore
20 Feb 1954
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19. Guest Host: Red Skelton
27 Feb 1954
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20. Guest Host: Art Carney
6 Mar 1954
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21. Guest Host: Eddie Fisher
13 Mar 1954
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22. Guest Host: Jane Froman
20 Mar 1954
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23. The Lawsuit
27 Mar 1954
Ralph Kramden attempts to sue his employer the bus company for $10,000 negligence.
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24. Fortune Teller
3 Apr 1954 · 34 min
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.
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25. The Next Champ
10 Apr 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.
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26. Stand-In for Murder
17 Apr 1954 · 43 min
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!
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27. Move Uptown
24 Apr 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.
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28. The Man in the Blue Suit
1 May 1954 · 34 min
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.
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29. Hair-Raising Tale
8 May 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.
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30. Jackie Gleason Celebrates 25 years in Show Business
15 May 1954
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31. Boxtop Kid
22 May 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.
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32. Two Men on a Horse
29 May 1954 · 38 min
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.
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33. Goodbye Aunt Ethel
5 Jun 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.
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34. SE02E34
12 Jun 1954
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35. Vacation at Fred's Landing: Re-Staging
19 Jun 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
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41. Margaret Hamilton, Garry Moore
26 Jun 1954
The Jackie Gleason Show Season 2: quick answers
How many episodes are in The Jackie Gleason Show Season 2?
Season 2 of The Jackie Gleason Show has 35 episodes, about 6 hours in total.
When did The Jackie Gleason Show Season 2 come out?
Season 2 premiered on 19 Sept 1953.