Fri, Jan 22, 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. Ralph puts and ad in the paper and finds a buyer who pays $1000.00 for the property. With the money in hand Ralph has to know why anyone would pay that much for that property only to find out their customer had inside information that there is road coming through that property and the buyer will be selling it for $4000.00
Fri, Apr 2, 1954
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. Ralph goes into even more of a panic leading to him trying to get Alice to visit her mother's, staying with Ed and finally asking the police to arrest him before something horrible happens.
Fri, Apr 9, 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.
Fri, Apr 16, 1954
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! They hatch their plan----set up Kramden within their establishment as a decoy; the Hackett gang then knocks off the wrong guy (Kramden), and the real boss escapes New York unnoticed.
The henchmen (Nick and Frank) visit Ralph and offer him a high-paying managerial position with their fictitous insurance company. Ralph must take up residence at the boss' suite/hangout for his "job training", and is told that Alice may only join him after a month. However, Norton manages to tag along, as the henchmen hurredly try to set Ralph up as the victim of a Hackett-style gangland killing.
As the plot thickens, our unsupsecting hero (Ralph) manages to elude every trap set for him. Ultimately, Alice shows up at the hangout to track down her clueless husband, and the mob plot begins to unravel. NOTE-- this episode, which ran overtime and thus was broadcast without its final moments, was RE-STAGED and broadcast again on June 4, 1955.
The henchmen (Nick and Frank) visit Ralph and offer him a high-paying managerial position with their fictitous insurance company. Ralph must take up residence at the boss' suite/hangout for his "job training", and is told that Alice may only join him after a month. However, Norton manages to tag along, as the henchmen hurredly try to set Ralph up as the victim of a Hackett-style gangland killing.
As the plot thickens, our unsupsecting hero (Ralph) manages to elude every trap set for him. Ultimately, Alice shows up at the hangout to track down her clueless husband, and the mob plot begins to unravel. NOTE-- this episode, which ran overtime and thus was broadcast without its final moments, was RE-STAGED and broadcast again on June 4, 1955.
Fri, Apr 23, 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. The plot back fires on Ralph when the landlord shows up at his apartment.
Fri, Apr 30, 1954
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. Their plans all fail. But only after he feels he'll never see the money again that Alice tells him the man who picked up the suit found the money and returned it. But not before she tortures him a little to get him for hiding how much he had actually won from her.
Fri, May 7, 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. The little guy claims to have invented the product and had wanted investors but didn't want to sell. Ralph sees a chance to make some money, and the little guy sees a sucker. For just $500 he can get the rights to all of New York City which the inventor claims should make him a million dollars. Ralph cashes in his insurance policy and gets Ed to kick in two hundred dollars. The inventor drops a bag full of bottles of chemicals and a copy of the formula so they can mix their own. Shortly after they start mixing Ralph's boss comes by and since he losing his hair Ralph convinces him he can help him. Big surprise, it doesn't work in fact it removes what little hair the man had. Ralph finds himself out of a job and down $300 so he decides to try the same scan in the park with Ed helping him. After Ed's little part in the scam is complete and he leaves Ralph tries finishing up the scam. As he starts explaining that he's an inventor the man in the park tells him he's invented an electric zipper. We leave Ralph with the inventor getting more information on the electric zipper
Fri, May 21, 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. When comes home with a lot of groceries Alice demands he take everything back. Ralph ignores her demands and he and Ed work on entering all the contests on the packages. As luck would have it, Ralph does win one of the contests. The contest was one put on by a dog food company, he won a great Dane from the Happy Hound Dog Food Company. While trying to figure out what to do with the dog Ralph finds out that he's won a trip to Europe, from on of the other contests he entered. There's one big catch. The contest he won was for Slimo Bread and to claim his prize he has to prove he lost 50 pounds. Ralph comes up with the idea of Ed pretending to be him. And since he needs to have a picture of himself before losing the weight Ed uses some of Ralph's clothing with padding to take a before picture. Ralph's plan falls apart and Ralph is left with the dog.
Fri, May 28, 1954
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. While he's hanging around the diner he over hears the owner getting a sure thing tip on a horse and they raise another $10.00 to take advantage of the tip he just got. When he gets there he tries to keep the odds on the horse from dropping by convincing even one he can to bet on other horses. This winds up back firing on him in a big way.
Top-rated
Fri, Sep 24, 1954
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.
Fri, Oct 1, 1954
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. They show up with the ladder and help the bride with all her baggage, and there's a lot. After the bride is outside and all the bags are down stairs, the bride and groom get in a fight and call off the elopement, and stomp off in a huff. Ralph and Ed throw all the bag back inside just in time for the bridge and groom to show back up to say they've made up and need the bags back. Ralph refuses and sends them on their way with what they have. Just as he's taking down the ladder a beat cop shows up and listens to their tale about the tickets and wedding. He proceeds to tell Ralph the Giants won the game earlier in the day (the 4th in a row) and had already won the Pennant. He also doesn't believe their story and arrests them, adding insult to injury.
Fri, Oct 22, 1954
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. After the police recapture the escapee in Ralph's apartment he becomes even more famous. Shortly there after one of the local political boss's comes to him and gets him to run for local assembly man.
Fri, Nov 26, 1954
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. But Ralph decides that the inside information his brother-in-law had about a new highway going past a closed hotel was a good idea. He gets Norton involved and they buy the place. Needless to say the hotel is a dump. They actually manage to do a nice job of rehabilitating the hotel only to find out that the road is going to be an elevated highway.
Top-rated
Fri, Dec 10, 1954
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.
Sun, Mar 21, 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. When comes home with a lot of groceries Alice demands he take everything back. Ralph ignores her demands and he and Ed work on entering all the contests on the packages. As luck would have it, Ralph does win one of the contests. The contest was one put on by a dog food company, he won a great Dane from the Happy Hound Dog Food Company. While trying to figure out what to do with the dog Ralph finds out that he's won a trip to Europe. There's one big catch. The contest he won was for Slimo Bread and to claim his prize he has to prove he lost 50 pounds. Ralph comes up with the idea of Ed pretending to be him. And since he needs to have a picture of himself before losing the weight Ed uses some of Ralph's clothing with padding to take a before picture. Ralph's plan falls apart and Ralph is left with the dog.