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The Amos 'n Andy Show Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

27 Episodes 1951 - 1952

Episode 1

Kingfish Gets Drafted

Thu, Jun 28, 195130 mins

The local draft board mixes up the Kingfish with another George Stevens.

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Episode 2

Kingfish's Secretary

Thu, Jul 5, 195130 mins

Sapphire becomes jealous over Kingfish's new lodge hall secretary.

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Episode 3

The Young Girl's Mother

Thu, Jul 12, 195130 mins

In spite of his friends' advice, Andy plans to marry a girl much younger than himself.

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Episode 4

The Rare Coin

Thu, Jul 19, 195130 mins

The Kingfish swindles Andy out of a rare nickel. Later, he unthinkingly drops it in the slot of a lunchroom's phone booth and places a call. It's now up to Andy and him to figure out how to retrieve the valuable coin without getting caught.

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Episode 5

Kingfish Has a Baby

Thu, Jul 26, 195130 mins

The Kingfish decides to reform because he thinks he is about to become a father.

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Episode 6

Counterfeiters Rent Basement

Thu, Aug 2, 1951

Kingfish rents the lodge hall's basement to a printing company. Unbeknownst to him, the only thing being printed is counterfeit money.

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Episode 7

Sapphire Disappears

Thu, Aug 9, 195130 mins

After Sapphire and her Mama go missing, the Kingfish fears the worst.

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Episode 8

The Winslow Woman

Thu, Aug 16, 195130 mins

Kingfish has Andy pose as a baron to trick a rich widow into marrying him.

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Episode 9

The Gun

Thu, Aug 23, 195130 mins

The Kingfish purchases a gift for Sapphire for their anniversary and inside the gift is a gun that some crooks have hidden. Kingfish decides to pawn the gun so he can buy Sapphire a nicer gift, but things don't work out as planned.

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Episode 10

Call Lehigh 4-9900

Thu, Aug 30, 195130 mins

Sapphire tells Kingfish to burn some old clothes; rather, he tries to pawn them off on Andy. An old telephone number in a pocket reads, "The Best in Town." This leads to a few predicaments beyond Kingfish's control.

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Episode 11

Leroy Lends a Hand

Thu, Sep 6, 195130 mins

Sapphire's brother, LeRoy comes to live with them. He goes to work for Kingfish and Andy at their parking lot. Thinking it is a used car lot, he inadvertently sells one of the cars.

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Episode 12

The Fur Coat

Thu, Sep 13, 195130 mins

When Sapphire visits Mama in Chicago, Kingfish gets a job as a delivery boy for a department store. He tries to deliver a fur coat, but he gets no response and ends up bringing it home. Sapphire returns, finds the coat, and believes it's a present for her.

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Episode 13

Jewelry Store Robbery

Thu, Sep 20, 195130 mins

Andy inadvertently shoots a photograph of a jewelry store robber, and the Kingfish tries to gyp him out of half the $1,000 reward.

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Episode 14

Kingfish's Last Friend

Thu, Sep 27, 195130 mins

Feeling that he hasn't a friend in the world, the Kingfish wants to turn over a new leaf by becoming honest.

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Episode 15

Andy Buys a House

Thu, Oct 4, 195130 mins

Kingfish goes to work for a real estate company. He sells a house to Andy, without informing him that it must be moved because the underlying lot has been condemned to make room for a new highway.

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Episode 16

Amos Helps Out

Thu, Oct 11, 195130 mins

Feeling that he's unappreciated by his wife, Kingfish concocts a scheme to cause Sapphire to believe they were never legally married.

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Episode 17

Getting Mama Married: Part 1

Thu, Oct 18, 195130 mins

Kingfish's attempt to marry off Sapphire's mother puts him in dire financial straits.

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Episode 18

Getting Mama Married: Part 2

Thu, Oct 25, 195130 mins

Having learned his mother-in-law's suitor is a con-artist, Kingfish digs himself ever deeper trying to fix things.

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Episode 19

The Happy Stevenses

Thu, Nov 1, 195130 mins

The Kingfish and Sapphire are faithful listeners to The Happy Harringtons radio program, and they wish some of Harry and Harriet's happiness would rub off on their marriage.

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Episode 20

Traffic Violation

Thu, Nov 8, 195130 mins

Kingfish and Andy are sharing weekly driving privileges of a used car. After a traffic court judge warns the Kingfish that his next court appearance will land him in jail, he wrecks the car and hands the attending police officer Andy's license as identification. Next step: Fool Andy into thinking that he's suffering from amnesia.

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Episode 21

Quo Vadis

Thu, Nov 15, 195130 mins

When an old school chum visits New York, the Kingfish poses as a millionaire in order to perpetuate a hometown myth that he's an extremely successful New York businessman.

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Episode 22

The Diner

Thu, Nov 22, 195130 mins

While out for a Sunday drive with Sapphire and Mama the Kingfish sees a diner for sale so he and Andy go in together to buy it. Of course things don't work out as planned thanks to a new highway that has routed traffic away from said diner.

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Episode 23

The Turkey Dinner

Thu, Nov 29, 195130 mins

The Kingfish figures there's a profit to be made, if he can insert himself as the middleman in acquiring the twenty turkeys that Sapphire needs for her woman's club dinner.

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Episode 24

Ready-Made Family

Thu, Dec 6, 195130 mins

The Kingfish must put together a phony family quickly to convince his visiting Uncle Clarence to keep him in his will after he lied to him in a letter that he had a baby to scam him out of a $500 baby gift.

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Episode 25

Relatives

Thu, Dec 20, 195130 mins

After Sapphire's mama moves in with the Kingfish and Sapphire a domestic court judge orders Mama to remain nuetral and to stay out of all arguments between man and wife. Naturally the Kingfish uses this order to his advantage

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Episode 26

Andy Gets a Telegram

Thu, Dec 27, 195130 mins

Andy gets a job opportunity in Brazil. Kingfish seeks to steal the opportunity from Andy, but is foiled when it is discovered that that opportunity was fake, designed by Sapphire to keep Kingfish away from Andy's "bad influence."

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Episode 27

Hospitalization

Thu, Jan 3, 195230 mins

Kingfish sells Andy a phony hospitalization insurance policy. The con goes awry when Andy winds up in the hospital and wants to file a claim.

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