Topper

Episode 1

Topper Tells All

Fri, Oct 8, 1954 30 mins

Topper gets a parking ticket, and lands in the drunk tank after telling the officer about the ghosts.

Episode 2

Topper's Ransom

Fri, Oct 15, 1954 30 mins

Topper unwittingly lets two robbers in the bank and is held for ransom. It's up to the Kerbys to rescue him.

Episode 3

County Fair

Fri, Oct 22, 1954 30 mins

Topper is left in charge of his boss's beloved prize chicken.

Episode 4

The Seance

Fri, Oct 29, 1954 30 mins

Episode 5

Topper Strikes Gold

Fri, Nov 5, 1954 30 mins

Topper, Henrietta and their maid Maggie go to Alaska to prospect a gold mine. Two prospectors know the mine is phony. Thanks to the ghosts, real gold is discovered. Topper and the prospectors are stuck in the mine due to an avalanche.

Episode 6

The Chess Player

Fri, Nov 12, 1954

Topper is expecting a visit from his pen pal chess partner, whom he has never met. However, he is surprised when the chess player turns out to be a young boy genius -- who also doesn't believe in ghosts.

Episode 7

Topper Goes to Washington

Fri, Nov 19, 1954 30 mins

Topper takes his idea for a 7-cent dime to Washington.

Episode 8

Jury Duty

Fri, Nov 26, 1954

Episode 9

Topper Lives Again

Fri, Dec 3, 1954

An X-ray examination leads Topper to believe he's near death. The Kerbys coach him for his imminent demise.

Episode 10

The Army Game

Fri, Dec 10, 1954

Marion feels that Topper needs more backbone and enlists him in the army. He runs afoul of a sergeant and thanks to the ghosts is mistaken for a general.

Episode 11

Topper's Accident

Fri, Dec 17, 1954 30 mins

The Toppers are quarantined after a hunter with a rare disease visits.

Episode 12

Topper's Quiet Christmas

Fri, Dec 24, 1954

Topper plans to have a quiet Christmas Eve. It is interrupted by a handyman who wants to work on the house, Mr. Schuyler who wants Topper to foreclose on a turkey ranch and a bunch of turkeys from the turkey ranch, courtesy of Marion.

Episode 13

Topper's Happy New Year

Fri, Dec 31, 1954

George, Marion and Neil have to recharge their ectoplasm for the New Year. Neil did not get enough ectoplasm and is fading away. The Kerbys must find a suitable replacement to make Neil to return.

Episode 14

Topper's Deception

Fri, Jan 7, 1955

Maggie the maid's father is visiting and she has written him and told him that the Toppers work for her instead of the other way around. They agree to be Maggie's butler and maid.

Episode 15

Topper's Guest

Fri, Jan 14, 1955

Mr. Schuyler asks Topper to house a very rich Spanish guest, who has inherited a fortune. The "guest" is a chimpanzee.

Episode 16

Topper's Rejuvenation

Fri, Jan 21, 1955

When client Mr. Dillingham feels that Topper and the bank are too old to handle his account, Topper becomes depressed. Mr. Schuyler hires a younger man who is intent on taking Topper's job with his new fangled ideas.

Episode 17

Topper in Mexico

Fri, Jan 28, 1955

A bank clerk has absconded with a half million dollars of the bank's bonds. He calls Topper and tells him if they want the bonds back, Henrietta must deliver a ransom in Mexico. The Toppers, Mr. Schuyler and the ghosts head to Mexico.

Episode 18

Topper Hits the Road

Fri, Feb 4, 1955 30 mins

Topper is assigned by the bank to find a wealthy but unknown depositor of railroad stock now worth six-and-a-half million dollars.

Episode 19

Topper at the Races

Fri, Feb 11, 1955 30 mins

Topper gets an unusual assignment from the bank, betting a fortune at the races.

Episode 20

Topper's Racket

Fri, Feb 18, 1955

A bookie moves in next door to the Toppers. Topper makes a bet for George and inadvertently wins $600. Topper is appointed to a citizen's committee to run him out of the neighborhood and is arrested for being the leader of the bookies.

Episode 21

Topper's Amnesia

Fri, Feb 25, 1955 30 mins

Topper's memory fades when he's hit on the head, and he loses all contact with the ghosts. The ghosts take him to the airport to catch a flight Vienna to see a psychiatrist, but he's mistaken for Lord Boomer, a professional wrestler.

Episode 22

Topper's Arabian Night

Fri, Mar 4, 1955

An oil scam takes Topper and the ghosts, as well as his wife and boss, to the Middle East, where a misunderstanding has Henrietta set to marry a phony sheik.

Episode 23

The House Wreckers

Fri, Mar 11, 1955 30 mins

Topper discover the house has been sold to the city and is to be moved to make way for a new highway, but the movers cause as much damage than if the house were knocked down.

Episode 24

Topper Makes a Movie

Fri, Mar 18, 1955 30 mins

While on assignment to protect the bank's financial interest in a film production, Topper goes undercover as the movie's stuntman.

Episode 25

King Cosmo the First

Wed, Mar 23, 1955 30 mins

Topper is called upon to impersonate a lookalike king marked for assassination.

Episode 26

Topper's Double Life

Wed, Mar 30, 1955

George enters Marion's picture as Topper's wife to win pigeons after seeing the movie On the Waterfront. Topper rents an apartment to get the pigeons. The apartment is next door to Elsie Worbel, Mrs. Topper's nosey friend.

Episode 27

Topper Fights a Duel

Fri, Apr 8, 1955 30 mins

Topper embarks on a business deal involving truffles and winds up in a duel with a French envoy.

Episode 28

Topper Egyptian Deal

Fri, Apr 15, 1955 30 mins

Topper is marked for assassination after he comes into possession of an ancient Egyptian mummy, complete with its own curse.

Episode 29

Topper's Uranium Pile

Fri, Apr 22, 1955 30 mins

A piece of uranium in planted in Topper's yard as part of a real estate scam.

Episode 30

Topper's Spring Cleaning

Fri, Apr 29, 1955 30 mins

A big bank deal and spring cleaning occurring on the same day make for confusion enough. But when George Kerby adds his ghostly invention to the general chaos, Topper doesn't have a chance.

Episode 31

Topper Goes to School

Fri, May 6, 1955

Henrietta's old school needs a loan of because of embezzlement. Topper gets his bank to make the loan on false premises and then delivers the check to the school with George interfering. While hiding in a closet, the 'lost' money is found.

Episode 32

The Blood Brother

Fri, May 13, 1955 30 mins

A criminal friend of George's returns to Kerbys' former home to look for a ruby he hid there before going to Alcatraz.

Episode 33

Topper's Highland Fling

Fri, May 20, 1955 30 mins

Topper takes a drastic step after getting the news of his inheritance from a great-great-uncle in Scotland.

Episode 34

Topper's Desert Island

Fri, May 27, 1955 30 mins

Topper, Henrietta and Mr. Schuyler are offered a trip to Bali by a client. When the client's pilot doesn't show up, George decides to fly them there.

Episode 35

The Neighbors

Fri, Jun 3, 1955 30 mins

A highly obnoxious family from Texas moves in next-door to the Toppers.

Episode 36

Topper's Counterfeiters

Fri, Jun 10, 1955 30 mins

Two counterfeiters are secretly printing money in Topper's basement.

Episode 37

Topper's Insurance Scandal

Fri, Jun 17, 1955

The Kerbys devise a scheme for Topper to collect on his new accident policy.

Episode 38

Topper's Other Job

Fri, Jun 24, 1955

Mr. Schuyler has sold the bank and Henrietta's cousin has lost their savings. Topper agrees to take a job (with the help of the ghosts) being shot out of a cannon into a lion's cage.

Episode 39

Topper's Vacation

Fri, Jul 1, 1955

Henrietta and Mr. Schuyler thing Topper is getting "seedy" and suggests that he and Henrietta join him at his lodge. However, he has Topper going over bank records for the father of Marion's old college flame.