The Honeymooners
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
TV Flash files “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” as hour 166 of 225 in the TV Flash guide — The Honeymooners (1955–1956) on CBS, season 7, episode 6, aired 1967-11-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E06: listed hour 166 of 225 in the The Honeymooners guide, hour 6 of 9 in season 7. It aired 1967-11-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Nephew of the Bride” (S07E05). Next is “Two Faces of Ralph Kramden” (S07E07).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Out of Sight, Out of Mind sit in the The Honeymooners guide?
S07E06 is listed hour 166 of 225 — hour 6 of 9 in season 7, season 7 episode 6.
When did The Honeymooners S07E06 air?
Out of Sight, Out of Mind aired 1967-11-04 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the Classic 39 — season four in this pack, beginning with TV or Not TV. The earlier sketches show the characters forming; the 1955–56 half-hours are the form at full voltage.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Thirty-nine half-hours in a kitchen the size of a conscience: Gleason’s volume, Meadows’s spine, Carney’s devotion. Watch working-class pride as sitcom architecture — then notice how little furniture a great comedy needs, and how quickly later revivals became souvenirs.
Before the Classic 39 had a Saturday all to themselves, Ralph Kramden was already yelling in a kitchen the size of a conscience. The Honeymooners begins, in this catalog, as 1952 sketch voltage on Gleason’s variety empire: a bus driver’s pride, a wife with the only working bullshit detector in Bensonhurst, a sewer worker as best friend and chaos engine. Television did not invent working-class marriage as comedy. It did, for one tight season of half-hours, freeze it in a set so spare it still looks like a dare. No…
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