The Abbott and Costello Show
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields' boarding house. Lou's girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Any premise would lead to slapstick, puns, lots of gimmicks from their movies.
- 1952-1957
- 2 seasons
- CBS
- Comedy, Family, Suspense
- TV-G
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields' boarding house. Lou's girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Any premise would lead to slapstick, puns, lots of gimmicks from their movies.
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1953 - 1954
Episode 1
The Paperhangers
Sat, Nov 7, 1953 30 mins
Mr. Fields forces the boys to hang wallpaper to help pay off their rent.
Episode 2
Uncle Bozzo's Visit
Sat, Nov 14, 1953 26 mins
Lou's uncle, an Italian opera singer, visits, and his singing annoys Mr. Fields.
Episode 3
In Society
Sat, Nov 21, 1953 26 mins
Bud & Lou are hired to pose as British noblemen at a swanky party.
Episode 4
Life Insurance
Sat, Nov 28, 1953 26 mins
Mr. Fields demands the boys take out life-insurance policies that name him as beneficiary, but neither can pass the physical.
Episode 5
Pest Exterminators
Sat, Dec 5, 1953 26 mins
The boys exterminate the ants at a rich lady's house, but she thinks they have killed her aunts.
Episode 6
Killer's Wife
Sat, Dec 12, 1953 26 mins
A jealous boxer and his sexy wife rent a nearby apartment and Lou is suspected of carrying on with said sexy wife.
Episode 7
Cheapskates
Sat, Dec 19, 1953 26 mins
The boys accidentally buy a crate of roller skates - which contain ill-gotten gems.
Episode 8
South of Dixie
Sat, Dec 26, 1953 26 mins
Lou overhears a man and girl rehearsing a Civil War play and thinks the danger is real. Inspired by Buster Keaton's The General.
Episode 9
From Bed to Worse
Sat, Jan 2, 1954 26 mins
The boys try to win a prize for having the best backyard garden and wind up angering their neighbor.
Episode 10
$1000 TV Prize
Sat, Jan 9, 1954 27 mins
Lou answers Mr. Fields' phone and inadvertently wins a thousand-dollar prize.
Episode 11
Amnesia
Sat, Jan 16, 1954 27 mins
When Lou prepares to marry a girl he's only corresponded with, Bud convinces him he has amnesia and has already married a shrew.
Episode 12
Efficiency Experts
Sat, Jan 23, 1954 30 mins
The boys are hired to help control a man's daughters, who spend too much money. But they end up losing their money in a casino.
Episode 13
Car Trouble
Sat, Jan 30, 1954 30 mins
Lou wins a car in a contest, but it's a lemon, so they drive to Flint for another.
Episode 14
Wife Wanted
Sat, Feb 6, 1954 27 mins
Lou tries to marry his old girlfriend so he can inherit $10,000 but she's now dating a jealous wrestler.
Episode 15
Uncle from New Jersey
Sat, Feb 13, 1954 30 mins
To avoid eviction, the boys convince Fields that Lou has a millionaire uncle. Lou winds up masquerading as his own uncle.
Episode 16
Private Eye
Sat, Feb 20, 1954 30 mins
Lou takes a correspondence course to become a detective, and then tries to help a girl recover some old bonds.
Episode 17
The Tax Return
Sat, Feb 27, 1954 27 mins
The IRS accidentally sends Lou a check for $1,000,000.13. When he and Bud cash it, they are followed home by thugs who witnessed the transaction.
Episode 18
Public Enemies
Sat, Mar 6, 1954 26 mins
When Lou is mistaken for a fellow safecracker, the boys get involved with crooks planning a robbery.
Episode 19
Bank Holdup
Sat, Mar 13, 1954 30 mins
The boys are hired as bank guards by two robbers masquerading as Brinks guys.
Episode 20
Well Oiled
Sat, Mar 20, 1954 27 mins
Lou poses as a millionaire to help Mr. Fields get out of a breach-of-promise suit.
Episode 21
The Pigeon
Sat, Mar 27, 1954 30 mins
Lou is set up by his sexy neighbor to take the fall for her infidelity, so that Lou is the one who gets killed by her jealous mobster boyfriend.
Episode 22
Honeymoon House
Sat, Apr 3, 1954 27 mins
Abbott builds a prefab house for Costello who is about to be married. Unknown to him, two drunk college students alter the numbers on the crates. The house is built according the incorrect numbers and ends up being a disaster, with slanted floors, missing walls, and a whole host of other comical problems. When Costello, his fiancee, and future in-laws come to visit, the slapstick comedy begins.
Episode 23
Fencing Master
Sat, Apr 10, 1954 26 mins
Bud volunteers Lou for a science experiment that makes him immune to pain.
Episode 24
Beauty Contest
Sat, Apr 17, 1954 30 mins
After Bud and Lou are appointed as judges of the Miss Mud Turtle Beauty contest, they are pressured by Mr. Fields to pick the landlord's niece and a gangster to choose his moll as the winner and are faced with losing either their apartment or their lives.
Episode 25
Fall Guy
Sat, Apr 24, 1954 26 mins
After Bud and Lou fail miserably as door-to-door salesmen, their landlord recruits them to earn $100 as "beards" by taking out a beautiful pair of sisters on behalf of a couple hoodlum types. In order to please their father, an eccentric ornithologist, the boys try to install a birdcage-shaped TV antenna on the chimney, where they run into conflict with a feisty roofer, the two impatient toughs, and the inescapable law of gravity.
Episode 26
Barber Lou
27 mins
After helping out their neighbor, Mrs. Bronson ('Renie Riano (I)'), in an amateur play directed by her, Bud (Bud Abbott) decides that he needs needs a relaxing rubdown and makes the mistake of enlisting Lou (Lou Costello)to give him the massage.
