WHEN ANNOYED at his wife, bus driver Ralph Kramden had the same choice words for her: "To the moon, Alice!" Sometimes he got even more demonstrative, yelling, "One of these days, Alice. Bang! Zoom! To ...

That was how fictional television character Ralph Kramden used to threaten his wife, Alice, on the old “Honeymooners” TV show. He never actually hit her. That wouldn't have been funny, not if he hit ...

The story of bus driver Ralph Kramden and wife Alice was an unfancy celebration of unfancy people. The episodes—most of them sketches within The Jackie Gleason Show—were limited to sparse sets, ...

But Meadows nearly missed her chance to play Mrs. Ralph Kramden. In a 1993 interview with The Los Angeles Times, the actress revealed that while the network wanted her, Gleason initially rejected her ...

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What was America’s favorite sitcom of the 1950s? After “I Love Lucy,” perhaps ... That would probably be “The Honeymooners” starring Jackie Gleason. It spent 10 seasons on television between 1951 and ...

Remember that old TV program The Honeymooners? In it, Ralph Cramden (Jackie Gleason) and his pal Norton, shining exemplars of the working class, provide some of the brawn but little of the brain in ...