Ralph and Alice Kramden argue over the fact there is no bread to go with Ralph's dinner. NOTES: This is the first "Honeymooners" sketch, featuring Pert Kelton as Alice and Art Carney as a policeman.
Ralph has his face lathered up and ready for a shave but cannot find his razor blades.
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Ralph relents in and buys Alice a television set. NOTES: Debuts of Ed and Trixie Norton, played by Carney and Elaine Stritch.
Ralph does not like the vegetable meat loaf Alice has prepared for dinner and starts an argument.
Ralph and Alice argue on a night they are to join the Nortons on a night on the town. Norton comes down and tells them the dance was the night before.
Ralph is jealous of Joe the jeweler, who he believes Alice is having an affair with. NOTE: First sketch featuring Joyce Randolph as Trixie Norton.
Ralph and Alice come home with a year's supply of Krinkly Krax cereal that they have won as a consolation prize on a radio quiz show.
After Alice sends Ralph back out for buying potato salad at the wrong delicatessen, the Kramden apartment is visited by five of Jackie Gleason's colorful characters (in order of appearance): Fenwick Babbitt, Joe The Bartender, The Poor Soul, Rudy The Repairman and Reggie Van Gleason III. Featuring performances by guest stars Jane Pickens (appearing as a Vaudeville friend of Trixie's) and juggler Rudy Cardenas. This is the first of three versions of this holiday episode, remade under the same episode name on December 20, 1952 and December 19, 1953.
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Ralph has a cold and Alice is nursing him back to health. She lets it be known to Ralph that she took out a life insurance policy on him. Ralph has a fit and accuses her of wanting him to die, but when Alice tells Ralph that she also took one out on her own life, he feels like a dope and apologizes. * PROGRAM LOST
last existing DuMont "Honeymooners" sketch.
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