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The Abbott and Costello Show

Season 2

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Episode 11953-11-07

The Paper Hangers

To pay back rent, Bud and Lou attempt to wallpaper an apartment. Later, as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.

Episode 21953-11-14

Uncle Bozzo's Visit

Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.

Episode 31953-11-21

In Society

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 41953-11-28

Life Insurance

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 51953-12-05

Pest Exterminators

Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."

Episode 61953-12-12

Killer's Wife

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 71953-12-19

Cheap Skates

Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.

Episode 81953-12-26

South of Dixie

Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.

Episode 91954-01-02

From Bed to Worse

Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.

Episode 101954-01-09

$1,000 TV Prize

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 111954-01-16

Amnesia

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 121954-01-23

Efficiency Experts

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 131954-01-30

Car Trouble

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 141954-02-06

Wife Wanted

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 151954-02-13

Uncle from New Jersey

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 161954-02-20

Private Eye

After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdog Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.

Episode 171954-02-27

The Tax Return

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 181954-03-06

Public Enemies

Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.

Episode 191954-03-13

Bank Holdup

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 201954-03-20

Well Oiled

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 211954-03-27

The Pigeon

Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.

Episode 221954-04-03

Honeymoon House

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.