The Jackie Gleason Show

Season 4

40 episodes

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  • S4E1

    S04E01

    Sep 29, 1956
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  • S4E2

    S04E02

    Oct 6, 1956
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  • S4E3

    Double Anniversary Party

    Oct 13, 1956

    It's the Kramden's anniversary and Ralph usually forgets so Alice is planning a surprise party. What she doesn't know is that this time Ralph remembered and has an big night out planned to surprise her. Alice has planned to get Ralph to go up to the Nortons where she plans to surprise him, and at the same time Ralph has planned to get Alice out of the house by asking her to go to the movies and then take to a restaurant where he has a big dinner planned. They have an argument trying to get each other to cooperate. Once they figure out what's going on they come up with a sweet way to deal with the problem.

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  • S4E4

    Checkup

    Oct 20, 1956

    Ralph's in line for a promotion. And the bus company wants him to get a physical. Ralph isn't aware of this requirement and isn't there when the doctor comes by the first time. Alice and Trixie have to go out and get Ed to come down and wait around until Ralph gets home, but they forget to tell him why he's getting a physical. When Ralph finds out he needs a physical he thinks it's for some insurance that Alice wants and he thinks is unnecessary. He decides that a way to fail the physical is to pretend to be drunk. The doctor believes what he sees and plans to report his findings to the "company". Ralph thinks he out smarted Alice until she comes home and tells him what was really going on.

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  • S4E5

    Forgot to Register

    Oct 27, 1956

    Ralph & Ed are very involved in a local election campaign, on the day of election Ed tells Ralph that he's not going to vote. Ralph blows a gasket, he gives Ed a history lesson to remind him why he has to vote. After bullying Ed into agreeing to vote Ralph finds out that Alice is going to vote for the candidate that's running against the candidate Ralph's supporting. This leads to a huge argument Ralph feels that a wife has to vote the way her husband votes. As they are getting ready to leave to vote Ralph realizes he forgot to register to vote. He winds up feeling like a fool and apologizes to Alice for trying bully her, and as usual she forgives him and he realizes yet again how lucky he is.

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  • S4E6

    Expectant Father

    Nov 3, 1956

    Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph in The Jackie Gleason Show (1952) Alice has secretly taken a job as an obstetrician's receptionist. But when Ralph sees her going into the doctor's office, he immediately leaps to the conclusion that he's going to be a father --and begins to make ecstatic plans for his son-to-be.

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  • S4E7

    Goodnight Sweet Prince

    Nov 10, 1956

    Ralph has to work third shift and the neighborhood won't let him sleep during the day.

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  • S4E8

    Two Family Car

    Nov 17, 1956

    Ralph finds out he's won a raffle. One problem: Ed Norton paid for half the ticket and the first prize is a car. Alice make Ralph tell Ed even though Ralph doesn't want to. They finally work out a way to share the car. But when the people from the raffle arrive, we find out Ralph won the 26th prize. And since he agreed to use the back half of the prize, this prize will cause him some problems.

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  • S4E9

    Love Letter

    Nov 24, 1956

    Remake of a sketch originally broadcast on Oct 16, 1954. Ralph finds an old love letter Norton wrote to Trixie years ago and mistakenly thinks Alice has a new lover.

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  • S4E10

    Tribute to Tommy Dorsey

    Dec 1, 1956
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  • S4E11

    Finders Keepers

    Dec 8, 1956

    Ralph and Norton try to raise funds to buy a local candy store by entering a radio contest.

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  • S4E12

    Catch a Star

    Dec 15, 1956

    Ralph tells the lodge members he knows Jackie Gleason and can get him for a show at the Raccoon Lodge (of course he doesn't). He comes clean to Norton who helps him come up with a plan to get Gleason to come to the event on the basis that it's a charity, it's not, but they don't plan on letting that get the way. Their plan involves waiting in Gleason's hotel lobby to ask him for help. The scene in lobby revolves around series of exits and entrances by Ralph and Gleason then Ed can Carney and even Joyce Randolf gets involved in playing a different character in that lobby. Gleason and Ralph manage to miss each other in the lobby. On the night of the event Ralph is shaking in his boots because he doesn't know that Alice had managed to get Gleason to show up by make his favorite food and sending it to him with a note asking him to help. Another interesting character swap takes place and everyone is happy at the end

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  • S4E13

    S04E13

    Dec 22, 1956
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  • S4E14

    Guest Host: Art Carney; Guests: Charlton Heston, Fred Waring, Sammy Davis, Jr.

    Dec 29, 1956
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  • S4E15

    Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Gordon MacRae, Roberta Sherwood, Woody Herman

    Jan 5, 1957
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  • S4E16

    At Sixty-Five

    Jan 12, 1957
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  • S4E17

    My Fair Landlord

    Jan 19, 1957

    Ralph wants to move, he finds a two family home in the want ads that has a low down payment. Alice is against it, and when Ralph decides Ed would be a good tenant for the second unit. Against Alice's wishes he gets the house and they move in only to find the place has a lot of problems. After signing a 99 year lease Ed demands that Ralph fix up his place. While repairs are under way Ralph and Ed have a big fight and Ed wants to leave. After Ralph holds him to the lease Ed tries to get thrown out by making lots of noise. Ed finally finds a way to get thrown out.

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  • S4E18

    Johnny Cash, Jonathan Winters

    Jan 26, 1957
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  • S4E19

    Away We Go

    Feb 2, 1957

    The Kramdens and Nortons win a breakfast cereal contest, the prize being a cruise around the world.

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  • S4E20

    Plastered in Paris

    Feb 9, 1957

    While in Paris, Ralph and Ed are arrested for unwittingly passing counterfeit money.

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  • S4E21

    Behind the Iron Curtain

    Feb 16, 1957

    While in Germany, Ralph and Ed accidentally wander into East Berlin and are suspected of being spies.

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  • S4E22

    The Honeymooners: When in Rome

    Feb 23, 1957

    In Italy, Ralph is jealous of Alice's tourist guide, not knowing the guide is a little boy.

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  • S4E23

    Curse of the Kramdens

    Mar 2, 1957

    When visiting Ireland, Ralph and Norton spend the night in the haunted ancestral Kramden Castle.

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  • S4E24

    The Honeymooners: Mad Dogs and Englishmen

    Mar 9, 1957

    The Kramdens and Nortons appear in a Flakey Wakey commercial on an English television show.

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  • S4E25

    Guest Host: Kate Smith; guest stars: Bobby Van, Gene Sheldon, Jonathan Winters, Pat Rooney

    Mar 16, 1957
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  • S4E26

    Guest Host: Kathryn Grayson; guest stars: Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dick Haymes, Joe Williams, Leo DeLyon, Bobby Hackett

    Mar 23, 1957
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  • S4E27

    All Star Circus Revue with guest host: Hugh O'Brian

    Mar 30, 1957
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  • S4E28

    Framed in Spain

    Apr 6, 1957

    Blackmailers fake a photo of Ralph fooling around with a Spanish local in Madrid, making Alice jealous.

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  • S4E29

    I Remember Mau Mau

    Apr 13, 1957

    The Kramdens and the Nortons go on safari in Africa. Partly remade from Fred's Landing Camping Trip in 1953.

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  • S4E30

    Jaye P. Morgan

    Apr 20, 1957
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  • S4E31

    Joey Adams, Al Kelly, Theresa Brewer, Russell Swann

    Apr 27, 1957
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  • S4E32

    June Carter, Helen Forrest, The Amazing Mr. Ballantine

    May 4, 1957
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  • S4E33

    Morey Amsterdam, Jerry Copper, The Sciplina Chimps; The Honeymooners - Six Months to Live

    May 11, 1957
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  • S4E34

    Monica Lewis, Johnny Haymer

    May 18, 1957
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  • S4E35

    Jane Morgan, Jack E. Leonard

    May 25, 1957
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  • S4E36

    Sammy Kaye, Rose Marie; The Honeymooners - Manager of the Baseball Team

    Jun 1, 1957

    Second remake of a sketch originally broadcast on May 16, 1952 and May 9, 1953. Ralph is convinced he's gotten a big time promotion but something is lost in translation.

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  • S4E37

    Guest Host: Johnnie Ray; Guests: Larry Griswold, Louis Jordan, Peggy Lee, Jimmy Nelson

    Jun 8, 1957
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  • S4E38

    Guest Host: Vic Damone; Guests: Peggy Lee, Dave Barry, Betty Kean, Lew Parker

    Jun 15, 1957
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  • S4E39

    Guest Host: Peggy Lee; Guests: Tony Bennett, The Treniers, Jack E. Leonard

    Jun 22, 1957
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  • S4E40

    S04E40

    Jun 29, 1957
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