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The Abbott and Costello Show on IMDB
First Aired: December 5th, 1952
Status: Ended
Genre: Family, Comedy
Network: Syndication
Summary: Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.
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# of Episodes: 52
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Season 2
Episode 1: The Paper Hangers
Air Date: November 7th, 1953
Summary: To pay back rent, Bud and Lou attempt to wallpaper an apartment. Later, as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.
Episode 2: Uncle Bozzo's Visit
Air Date: November 14th, 1953
Summary: Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.
Episode 3: In Society
Air Date: November 21st, 1953
Summary: A wealthy society matron pays Bud to attend a formal reception and impersonate the Duke of Gluten. Lou comes along pretending to be his cousin, the Earl of Waldo.
Episode 4: Life Insurance
Air Date: November 28th, 1953
Summary: Mr. Fields takes out an insurance policy on Lou. Later, Bud takes Lou on a hunting trip, and Lou suspects Bud and Mr. Fields have plotted to kill him for the insurance money.
Episode 5: Pest Exterminators
Air Date: December 5th, 1953
Summary: Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."
Episode 6: Killer's Wife
Air Date: December 12nd, 1953
Summary: When a heavyweight prize fighter named Killer thinks that Lou is having an affair with his wife, Bud attempts to get Lou trained and fit in a gym.
Episode 7: Cheap Skates
Air Date: December 19th, 1953
Summary: Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.
Episode 8: South of Dixie
Air Date: December 26th, 1953
Summary: Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
Episode 9: From Bed to Worse
Air Date: January 2nd, 1954
Summary: Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.
Episode 10: $1,000 TV Prize
Air Date: January 9th, 1954
Summary: Lou wins a $1,000 dollar prize pretending to be Mr. Fields. He then has to get Mr. Fields out of the way so he can collect it.
Episode 11: Amnesia
Air Date: January 16th, 1954
Summary: Lou is in love with a girl he has never met. As a gag, Bud and his friends convince him that he has already married the girl. The woman who poses as his wife then makes his existence miserable.
Episode 12: Efficiency Experts
Air Date: January 23rd, 1954
Summary: Bud and Lou land jobs as efficiency experts, and are assigned to restrain their client’s daughters from spending money. The young women, however, get the boys to buy them expensive dresses and take them to a casino, where they end up in a brawl.
Episode 13: Car Trouble
Air Date: January 30th, 1954
Summary: When Lou wins a car, Bud sells it to buy a cheaper one, using the profits to try to finance a vacation in Flint, Michigan.
Episode 14: Wife Wanted
Air Date: February 6th, 1954
Summary: When Lou finds out he will inherit $10,000 provided that he has a wife, he tries to marry a former girlfriend—who is dating a man named Bonebender Brodsky.
Episode 15: Uncle from New Jersey
Air Date: February 13rd, 1954
Summary: When Mr. Fields is just about to evict the boys, Bud convinces him that Lou's Uncle Ruppert is a millionaire and Lou is the sole heir. Complications arise, however, when Mike the Cop begins to believe that the visiting uncle (Lou in disguise) has been murdered.
Episode 16: Private Eye
Air Date: February 20th, 1954
Summary: After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdo Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.
Episode 17: The Tax Return
Air Date: February 27th, 1954
Summary: Lou receives a tax refund check for $1,000,000. He takes the check to a bank and demands cash. He is subsequently followed by home by crooks.
Episode 18: Public Enemies
Air Date: March 6th, 1954
Summary: Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.
Episode 19: Bank Holdup
Air Date: March 13rd, 1954
Summary: Bud and Lou unwittingly take jobs as armed bodyguards for a couple of hoodlums and assist in a bank robbery. They use their share of money to pay their rent, and later try to get it back from Mr. Fields' safe.
Episode 20: Well Oiled
Air Date: March 20th, 1954
Summary: Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.
Episode 21: The Pigeon
Air Date: March 27th, 1954
Summary: Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.
Episode 22: Honeymoon House
Air Date: April 3rd, 1954
Summary: When Bud and Mr. Fields help Lou put together a prefab house in order to impress his fiancée and her parents, a jealous former boyfriend sabotages their work.
Episode 23: Fencing Master
Air Date: April 10th, 1954
Summary: A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.
Episode 24: Beauty Contest Story
Air Date: April 17th, 1954
Summary: When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.
Episode 25: Fall Guy
Air Date: April 24th, 1954
Summary: Bud and Lou want to take two sisters on a date but their father convinces the boys to put an antenna on his roof instead.
Episode 26: Barber Lou
Air Date: May 1st, 1954
Summary: Lou tries to give Bud a rubdown following instructions from a radio show, but he's tuned into a program explaining how to paint a car at home.
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