TWO FOR TUESDAY - PERT ALERT

Telegenetics are very strong in the greater TV Universe, stronger than even in the Trueniverse.  The exact same combination of chromosomes can echo down through a family tree several times over and now we have seen that they can be duplicated in alternate TV dimensions.

‘The Honeymooners’ exist in several TV dimensions.  The “Classic 39” episodes are located in the main Toobworld, Earth Prime-Time.  But there was an earlier version of Ralph and Alice Kramden in which Alice was played the flinty Pert Kelton rather than Audrey Meadows.

Because the Classic 39 will be better remembered and repeated, that gives it preeminence in Toobworld.  Those original sketches have been relegated to Prequel Toobworld.  That DNA combination provided by Pert Kelton for Alice were not lost, however; they resurfaced in another TV dimension in Alice’s family – as Alice’s mother, Mrs. Gibson. 

During the mid-sixties 'The Honeymooners' returned to prime-time as part of a variety show hosted by Jackie Gleason.  In this incarnation, Alice was now played by Sheila MacRae and there's Pert Kelton as Mama Gibson.

BCnU!