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Ed has somnambulism and this is disrupting life for the Norton family and the Kramdens. It falls on Ralph to do something. What follows is a pretty predictable bit of stuff based on sleepwalking comedy. Ralph ends up sleeping with Norton to monitor him. There's lots of really funny physical comedy. The premise is almost too ludicrous to work very well, but Gleason and Carney are really quite funny. I really felt sorry for Ralph because I know what sleep deprivation can do to one.

Average episode, which means still pretty funny. Norton's getting plenty of sleep even if he is walking all over the tenements, including the ledges. Meanwhile, Ralph's getting none because guess who Trixie comes to to rescue hubby Norton from his sleepwalking. So tie a bell to the sleepwalker and put light-sleeper Ralph next to him. Plus, lock the bedroom door and hide the key. That's got to work. Sure it does, that is, as long as Dick Tracy's not on the job. But the real question is where's that doggone Lulu.

Gleason gets to do his usual blustery arm-waving, while Carney's as funny sleepwalking as he is awake. Poor Ralph, it seems his whole life is one petty annoyance after another. And a good thing too, that way we get all-time funny TV.

Watch too for George Petrie in makeup as the doctor. He was the series' all-purpose utility actor, and turns up in many different parts.

AJ Russell wrote this goofy episode, who all of us kids saw a million times, and would you believe it, he later became a long time writer of dramatic material for GENERAL HOSPITAL!

The story goes that Norton is plagued with sleepwalking, wandering all over the apartment building in the middle of the night, and likely to get himself killed.

This is very relatable, as it happens to a lot of people, even in my own family. It's just one of those cases where it's as serious as it is funny, and naturally making a great sitcom story.

Ralph decides its best for all, especially as life long friends, he keeps an eye on him, also calling in a specialist in sleep disorders. George Petrie plays the wise, old doc here. Petrie was both a radio actor for years and announcer on many game shows, plus a regular on the series in various roles.

He kind of looks like Albert Einstein in this one!

Always fun, and with some eerie music... Note the big change in apartment settings. Norton's place is actually quite 50s fashionable, while Ralph's apartment is soooo dreary. Actually, it should be Ralph who is doing the sleepwalking so he could leave that place once and for all.

And do Norton and Trixie have leopard skin blankets???

FROM SEASON 1EPISODE 6 restored dvd box set.