The Jackie Gleason Show (Season 2)

Sprained Thumb (Episode 1)

Air date: 1953-09-19

Runtime: 12 min

Overview: 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.

Lucky Number (Episode 2)

Air date: 1953-09-26

Runtime: 16 min

Overview: 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.

Episode S0203 (Episode 3)

Air date: 1953-10-03

Runtime: 16 min

Hot Dog Stand (Episode 4)

Air date: 1953-10-10

Runtime: 35 min

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

Two Tickets to the Fight (Episode 5)

Air date: 1953-10-24

Runtime: 10 min

Overview: 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.

Halloween Party (Episode 6)

Air date: 1953-10-31

Runtime: 16 min

Overview: 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.

Champagne and Caviar (Episode 7)

Air date: 1953-11-07

Runtime: 14 min

Overview: 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.

The Honeymooners: Letter to the Boss (Episode 8)

Air date: 1953-11-14

Runtime: 14 min

S02E10 (Episode 9)

Air date: 1953-11-21

Runtime: 14 min

Finger Man (Episode 10)

Air date: 1953-11-28

Runtime: 14 min

Overview: 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.

Honeymooners Christmas Party (Episode 11)

Air date: 1953-12-05

Santa and the Bookies (Episode 12)

Air date: 1953-12-12

Runtime: 31 min

Overview: 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.

Cottage for Sale (Episode 13)

Air date: 1954-01-23

Overview: 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.

S02E15 (Episode 14)

Air date: 1954-01-30

Guest Host: Ed Sullivan (Episode 15)

Air date: 1954-02-06

Guest Host: Robert Q. Lewis (Episode 16)

Air date: 1954-02-13

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

Guest Host: Garry Moore (Episode 17)

Air date: 1954-02-20

Guest Host: Red Skelton (Episode 18)

Air date: 1954-02-27

Guest Host: Art Carney (Episode 19)

Air date: 1954-03-06

Guest Host: Eddie Fisher (Episode 20)

Air date: 1954-03-13

Guest Host: Jane Froman (Episode 21)

Air date: 1954-03-20

The Lawsuit (Episode 22)

Air date: 1954-03-27

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

Fortune Teller (Episode 23)

Air date: 1954-04-03

Runtime: 34 min

Overview: 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.

The Next Champ (Episode 24)

Air date: 1954-04-10

Overview: 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.

Stand-In for Murder (Episode 25)

Air date: 1954-04-17

Runtime: 43 min

Overview: 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!

Move Uptown (Episode 26)

Air date: 1954-04-24

Overview: 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.

The Man in the Blue Suit (Episode 27)

Air date: 1954-05-01

Runtime: 34 min

Overview: 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.

Hair-Raising Tale (Episode 28)

Air date: 1954-05-08

Overview: 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.

Jackie Gleason Celebrates 25 years in Show Business (Episode 29)

Air date: 1954-05-15

Boxtop Kid (Episode 30)

Air date: 1954-05-22

Overview: 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.

Two Men on a Horse (Episode 31)

Air date: 1954-05-29

Runtime: 38 min

Overview: 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.

Goodbye Aunt Ethel (Episode 32)

Air date: 1954-06-05

Overview: 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.

SE02E34 (Episode 33)

Air date: 1954-06-12

Vacation at Fred's Landing: Re-Staging (Episode 34)

Air date: 1954-06-19

Overview: 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

Margaret Hamilton, Garry Moore (Episode 35)

Air date: 1954-06-26