Three things: sketches on Jackie Gleason's early-50s variety show; it then became a sitcom. It was revived in the late 60s as musical-comedy sketches on Gleason's last series. The tales of the Kramdens (Ralph and Alice) and the Nortons (Ed and Trixie), NYC tenement-dwellers, it was one of the more popular shows in the first decade of US TV. Gleason and Art Carney's Ralph-and-Ed were the template for a series of Warner toons (they were mice), and for Fred and Barney.