Note Gleason repertory player Frank Marth on the left as the reporter who is covering Ralph Kramden's city safety award honor. This reporter seems to be all over the place! It seems like only yesterday he was asking "men on the street" about their lives at home:
I give him credit for pounding that old shoe leather and working a beat, even if it seems to be about two blocks or so by the Gotham Bus Company.
I give him credit for pounding that old shoe leather and working a beat, even if it seems to be about two blocks or so by the Gotham Bus Company.
Those last two grabs are from Head of the House, but back to The Safety Award. Also in the opening scene: Eddie Hanley, who appears in multiple 'Mooners episodes, maybe most memorably as the "playboy from the roaring twenties" Pete Woodruff in The Man From Space's costume contest. Here is the photographer getting those glamour shots of Ralphie Boy for the article. Slow news day/week/month in Gotham, I take it.
What IS this reporter's responsibility? Is he a traffic reporter? He has too narrow a focus for the general features guy he purports to be. I like to think that he just covers public transportation in New York City or maybe just in Brooklyn...or even better, maybe just the buses.
Of course, it's possible that he just sticks to a narrow beat because he is so often busy with his other duties as a beat cop:
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