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The Abbott and Costello Show(TV show/series, 1952-1954)

25min per episode | Genres: Comedy, Kids & Family

Scripted Reality in 2 seasons with 52 episodes

The Abbott and Costello ShowRating: 3.6/5 (with 8 votes)
The Abbott and Costello Show is an American television sitcom starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The program premiered in syndication in the fall of 1952 and ran two seasons to the spring of 1954. Each season ran 26 episodes. The series is considered to be among the most influential comedy programs in history. In 1998, Entertainment Weekly praised the series as one of the "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". In 2007, Time magazine selected it for its "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME". Jerry Seinfeld has declared that The Abbott and Costello Show, with its overriding emphasis upon funny situations rather than life lessons, was the inspiration for his own long-running sitcom, Seinfeld. ()
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About 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. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.

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The Abbott and Costello Show Seasons and Episodes

11/07/1953Season 2 - 26 episodes
#1 | 11/07/1953The Paper Hangers
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)
To pay back rent, Bud and Lou attempt to wallpaper an apartment. Later, as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.
#2 | 11/14/1953Uncle Bozzo's Visit
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.
#3 | 11/21/1953In Society
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#4 | 11/28/1953Life Insurance
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#5 | 12/05/1953Pest Exterminators
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."
#6 | 12/12/1953Killer's Wife
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#7 | 12/19/1953Cheap Skates
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.
#8 | 12/26/1953South of Dixie
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
#9 | 01/02/1954From Bed to Worse
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.
#10 | 01/09/1954$1,000 TV Prize
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#11 | 01/16/1954Amnesia
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#12 | 01/23/1954Efficiency Experts
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#13 | 01/30/1954Car Trouble
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#14 | 02/06/1954Wife Wanted
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#15 | 02/13/1954Uncle from New Jersey
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#16 | 02/20/1954Private Eye
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdo Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.
#17 | 02/27/1954The Tax Return
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#18 | 03/06/1954Public Enemies
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.
#19 | 03/13/1954Bank Holdup
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#20 | 03/20/1954Well Oiled
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.
#21 | 03/27/1954The Pigeon
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.
#22 | 04/03/1954Honeymoon House
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#23 | 04/10/1954Fencing Master
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.
#24 | 04/17/1954Beauty Contest Story
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.
#25 | 04/24/1954Fall Guy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
#26 | 05/01/1954Barber Lou
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
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.
12/05/1952Season 1 - 26 episodes
?Specials - 44 episodes

Additional Information

Official websites:
Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 5 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Japanese (JA), Portuguese (PT), Ukrainian (UK)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 12/05/1952
Last episode released on: 05/01/1954
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Sidney Fields, Gordon Jones, Joe Besser, Hillary Brooke, Joe Kirk
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Composer: Raoul Kraushaar
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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