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The Honeymooners

★ 8.6 7K votes 1955–1956 1 season · 39 episodes Ended CBS
SitcomClassic comedy rhythm, multi-camera or single.This show: 10/10Working classOrdinary people, ordinary money, real stakes.This show: 9/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 9/10NostalgicTrades on longing for a past era, in the story or around it.This show: 8/10Warm humorAffectionate comedy that genuinely loves its characters.This show: 8/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 8/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 8/10Comfort rewatchThe kind of show people return to endlessly.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Jackie GleasonArt CarneyAudrey MeadowsJoyce RandolphRay BlochEddie Kane
Written by
Jackie Gleason
Starring
Jackie GleasonArt CarneyAudrey MeadowsJoyce RandolphRay BlochEddie Kane
Written by
Jackie Gleason
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Big dreams, small apartment, bigger arguments"

A New York City bus driver and his best friend, a sewer worker, live with their wives in cramped Brooklyn apartments, forever scheming to get rich quick or win some petty argument. Each half hour is basically a two-hander sitcom stage play, built on blustery bravado, wounded pride, and a wife who always sees through the scheme first. It's loud, broad, and stagebound, but the writing is tight and the performances are so committed that the small-scale bickering feels enormous. Watching it feels like classic theater squeezed into a sitcom format, funny and oddly touching.

Watch it for

the performances, which turn cramped apartment squabbling into some of sitcom history's most enduring comic acting.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-moving plots or modern production values rather than stagey, dialogue-driven comedy.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 11955
8.514K3919h 30m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1TV or Not TV8.6
51330 min
▶2Funny Money8.4
35830 min
▶3The Golfer8.8
39330 min
▶4A Woman's Work Is Never Done8.5
35130 min
▶5A Matter of Life and Death8.6
33830 min
▶6The Sleepwalker8.5
41330 min
▶7Better Living Through TV8.9
41530 min
▶8Pal O' Mine8.4
32130 min
▶9Brother Ralph8.6
35330 min
▶10Hello Mom8.2
32130 min
▶11The Deciding Vote8.3
29930 min
▶12Something Fishy8.2
32230 min
▶13'Twas the Night Before Christmas9.1
48130 min
▶14The Man from Space8.9
35530 min
▶15A Matter of Record8.5
33130 min
▶16Oh, My Aching Back8.4
32730 min
▶17The Babysitter8.3
30930 min
▶18The $99,000 Answer9.1
48030 min
▶19Ralph Kramden, Inc.8.2
30630 min
▶20Young at Heart8.5
37530 min
▶21A Dog's Life8.7
34630 min
▶22Here Comes the Bride8.1
31330 min
▶23Mama Loves Mambo8.6
38030 min
▶24Please Leave the Premises8.2
32530 min
▶25Pardon My Glove8.3
31730 min
▶26Young Man with a Horn8.2
32030 min
▶27Head of the House8.6
32430 min
▶28The Worry Wart8.3
32230 min
▶29Trapped8.7
34230 min
▶30The Loudspeaker8.0
30130 min
▶31On Stage8.3
31130 min
▶32Opportunity Knocks But8.3
31530 min
▶33Unconventional Behavior8.6
30130 min
▶34The Safety Award8.2
31530 min
▶35Mind Your Own Business8.3
31330 min
▶36Alice and the Blonde8.7
39430 min
▶37The Bensonhurst Bomber8.8
40330 min
▶38Dial J for Janitor8.6
31230 min
▶39A Man's Pride8.6
30130 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Jackie Gleason Ralph Kramden
Art Carney Ed Norton
Audrey Meadows Alice Kramden
Joyce Randolph Trixie Norton
Jack Lescoulie Self - Announcer
The June Taylor Dancers Themselves
Ray Bloch Bandleader
Eddie Kane Mr. Monahan, Mr. Peck
Charles Eggleston August Gunther, Old Counterfeiter
Suzanne Miller Judy Connors

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