The Honeymooners

Audrey Meadows was the only cast member to receive residual payments for the show for her entire life. This was a result of her shrewd manager, who predicted the prospect of a "rerun" even in the early stages of television, before precedent was set for it. As a part of her contract, she was told to stipulate that if the show were to air in subsequent time slots in the future, she would be paid royalties, which is an interesting bit of history, because it's now a standard condition for all television work that the involved parties from an episode should get paid for each showing of it. These days it applies to directors, actors, actresses, writers, and voice actors, along with others in different capacities as well.

The background in the Kramden's window changes. This is because of the angles of the different cameras. When the left camera video is being shown, you see just windows through the window. When the middle camera footage is shown, you see buildings with fire escapes. The right camera rarely shows the window, but is slightly different when briefly shown.

Because of this, the math deduces that the minimum distance between the window and backdrop is 2.17m.

Besides the modification to the opening title sequence when prepared for syndication, original announcer Jack Lescoulie's voice was replaced with that of Gaylord Avery, a longtime CBS staff announcer.

Featured in Zenith Presents: A Salute to Television's 25th Anniversary (1972)