Season 3

Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows in The Jackie Gleason Show (1952) Ralph gets chosen for a commercial for a candy bar company that sponsor an opera show for TV. He has some problems learning his lines, but the biggest problem comes when he develops a toothache before the big night. When he bites into the bar during the live broadcast he winds up writhing in pain all over the stage.

Ralph is fighting with Alice about her sisters up coming wedding. It seems Ralph has world series tickets for the day of the wedding. He and Ed cook up a plan to get the bride and groom to elope. The only way the groom to be will go through with it is if Ralph and Ed help with the event.

Sketches: Reggie Van Gleason, the Poor Soul, Mother Fletcher; featuring Art Carney and Zamah Cunningham.

Ralph finds a love letter Norton wrote to Trixie years ago and believes it was sent to Alice by another man.

Ralph spots an escaped criminal on his bus. He gets all the passengers off and helps the police arrest him. While the press is at his apartment taking his picture he finds out that the criminal has escaped. Ralph plans to hide but the police come to his apartment and talk him into acting as bait to recapture the criminal who has vowed to get even with him.

Remake of Halloween Party filmed Oct 31, 1953.

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Following domestic spats, Ed moves in with Ralph and Alice moves in with Trixie.

Ralph and Alice are contestants on Beat the Clock. Featuring Bud Collyer.

Alice's brother Frank comes over for dinner. Ralph and Frank have a history of problems and they spend the evening arguing. As the evening comes to a close Frank as for a loan of $500 since Frank already owes Ralph $500 Ralph throws him out.

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Ralph is intrigued by the potential fame and fortune in writing popular songs. Before long, he and Norton pitch in (by raiding their spouses' Christmas Club funds) and buy a piano; Alice is furious. Desperately working through the night in Ralph's apartment, Ed and Ralph exhaust every lame premise for writing a hit song, until a chance series of disruptive noises sparks Ralph's imagination, and their new masterpiece begins to take shape. Within a day, they are auditioning their new opus "My Love Song to You" for a local publisher, who tells Ralph that he likes Ed's music, but refuses to publish the song with Ralph's amateurish lyrics. Ralph makes the ultimate artistic sacrifice by allowing the publisher to hire a lyricist to replace his own words. Ralph is thus thrust into an emotional funk, which reaches its height on the night Ed's new song makes its radio broadcast debut.

Title: "Santa and the Bookies" (re-staging of episode from 12/12/53)

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Ralph sues Norton over a television set which Norton won in a raffle.

Ralph has bad news and good news. His house is without heat, but he's just been promoted to assistant to the assistant cashier. He catches a cold from his lack of heat in his apartment. And while working at the office Ed came by to see his new office while there Norton becomes interested in the safe and Ralph shows him how easy the door works.

The Raccoon Convention is coming up, and Ralph hopes a hypnotist from the lodge can help him to get the necessary funds from Alice's secret stash.

Ralph tries to set up a lonely friend on a blind date but local gossip leads Alice to believe that Ralph is the one seeking a new relationship.

Mr. Marshall tells Ralph he's crazy (in Ralph's words) and has a problem with his temper, having received complaints from passengers who have traveled on his bus. So he tells Ralph to see a psychiatrist to see if anything can be done about his temper.

A boy (Tommy) in the building Ralph lives in idolizes him, and Ralph can't resist embellishing his abilities to the boy. After talking with Ralph Tommy goes home and writes a paper for school about his "hero" Ralph Kramden. After reading the paper the teacher writes to Ralph asking him to come in for a conference.

Ralph takes up a collection to buy an expensive watch for his boss's daughter but Alice finds it and thinks it's for her.

Ralph can't sleep because fighting going on between Ed and Trixie. Eventually Ed decides to leave and Trixie comes down talk with Alice. Alice gets Ralph to go out and find Ed. By the time Ralph gets back with Ed Trixie wants an apology. They start fighting again, and this time Ed comes down to Ralphs apartment.

Despite not having much to show for their lives, Ralph and Alice decide that they want to adopt a baby. Naturally, Ralph is set on having a son and won't hear of anything else. With the Nortons' help, the Kramdens prepare for the new arrival. When Alice and Ralph go to the adoption agency, they are first shown a girl baby but Ralph insists that they bring a boy.

Ed finds an astrology booklet on the subway, and convinces Ralph to use the booklet and its predictions as a guide to making critical decisions--such as the exact day and time (down to the minute) that Ralph should ask his foreman, Joe Malone, for a raise.

The Kramden's and the Norton's decide to share a bigger nicer apartment in Queens. It doesn't take long before they are at each others throats. After one especially bad fight they get thrown out and have to go back to their old places.

Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows in The Jackie Gleason Show (1952) Ralph comes home in a foul mood. An inspector for the bus company comes on his buss and tells him he is getting too fat and may not be able to continue driving a bus. He comes home and talks with Ed about it and between the two of them, after looking up the rules, they decide he's still underweight for his height.

The wives demand that the husbands spend more time with them and the boys concoct a scheme to change that.

With everything in the apartment breaking down, Ralph decides to exercise a clause in the lease and uses the rent money to fix up the place.

Alice and Trixie enter the contest Ralph and Norton hope to win.

Broadcast on 5/21/55, is "Letter to the Boss (II)", a restaging of the same script first performed on November 14, 1953.

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Remake of sketch originally aired on April 17, 1954. Ralph is offered a phony job as an insurance executive but he is a doppelganger for a mob boss.

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