The comedic duo engages in humorous scenarios.
Original title
The Abbott and Costello Show
Released
12/5/1952
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Family
Production companies
Television Corporation of America
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
52
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.
Chris and Paddy Costello's opinions on Season 1.
Famous comedic skit performed perfectly by Abbott and Costello!
A Short Film on a Youth Foundation set up in Lou's Son's Honor
All of the bonus material from season 1!
Short intro to the bonus material.
Costello's daughters talk about the characters on the show.
Costello's daughters talk about their dad's foundation built in LA.
Costello's daughters talk about their dad's love of cameras and his use of it for their home movies!
Costello's daughters narrate over some of their old childhood home movies.
Old home movie clips of Patty Costello's birthday.
Costello's daughters talk about Christmas and new years with the family.
Costello's daughters show home movies from Christmas day in 1949.
Costello's daughters talk about their trip to Europe.
Costello's daughters show footage from their trip to Europe.
Costello's daughters talk about their father's friend Joe Buzzo.
Costello's daughters talk about their father as a conclusion to the season 1 bonus features.
End credits for the season 1 bonus features.
Promo video for the season 2 DVD.
Chris and Paddy Costello's opinions on Season 2.
Costello's daughters talk about how their mom met their dad.
Costello's daughters talk about their grandparents.
Costello's daughters talk about when their dad met Bud Abbott.
Costello's daughters talk about their times on the Universal sets as kids.
Costello's daughters talk about their dads dividing relationship with Bud.
Costello's daughters talk about their dads love for gambling.
Costello's daughters talk about his coworkers allegiance and his love for America.
Costello's daughters talk about his relationship with the police.
Costello's daughters talk about what their dad would've done if he hadn't died so young.
Costello's daughters talk about their dads love of capturing the home and his love for entertaining Christmas goers.
Costello's daughters show home movies from Christmas in 1946.
Costello's daughters show home movies from Easter in 1947.
Costello's daughters show home movies of Chris from 1947 to 1949.
Costello's daughters show home movies from Easter in 1949.
Costello's daughters show home movies of Chris' 2nd birthday party in 1949.
Costello's daughters show home movies of Patty's' 13th birthday party in 1949.
Costello's daughters show home movies of their mother.
Costello's daughters show home movies from Christmas in 1950.
Costello's daughters show home movies of Chris' 4th birthday party in 1951.
Costello's daughters show home movies of their trip to Hawaii.
Costello's daughters show home movies of Patty's wedding in 1953.
Costello's daughters talk about their dad's foundation built in LA.
Famous comedic skit performed perfectly by Abbott and Costello!
Promo video for the season 1 DVD.
This is technically not a movie, but a movie-length TV special that originally aired in the late 1970's. Milton Berle introduces a series of very well-chosen excerpts from Abbott & Costello's TV series (not their movies). Additional commentaries by Joe Besser and Steve Allen are also included. Many of the best burlesque comedy skits ever performed are featured in their entirety: "Slowly I Turn", "Herd of Cows", "Floogle Street", "Who's On First", and many others. The narration is by Milton Berle. This tape is a non-stop laugh riot all the way through! Abbott & Costello made many good movies through the 1940's and 1950's, but in my opinion even the best of them fall short of the laugh quotient of this superb compilation. With this tape, you don't have to sit through plot-advancing scenes or musical numbers while you wait for the funny parts. Pretty much the whole thing is the funny parts!
Bud and Lou find jobs in Fields' drugstore and nearly wreck the place. This episode opens with the famous "Jonah and the Whale" routine.
When Lou gets a toothache he attempts to get arrested so he can receive free treatment while incarcerated.
Lou damages Mrs. Crumbcake's waterpail and she drags him into court claiming .79 cents in damages. In jail, Lou's crazed cellmate becomes enraged whenever he hears "Niagara Falls."
Bud and Lou head off to the Biltmore Hotel near Phoenix for a vacation. "Hertz U-Drive" and the "Pack-Unpack" routines are performed.
Lou throws a birthday party for himself, but nearly poisons his guests when he puts ant paste on his hors d'oeurves instead of anti pasto. Bud throws him out and Lou consoles himself by ordering a giant decorated cake.
When news arrives that Lou's uncle has struck gold in Alaska, Bud and Lou plan to help him spend it.
Bud and Lou visit an employment agency run by Mr. Fields' brother, who gives Lou a job selling vacuum cleaners door to door.
Bud and Lou join the Army, where they recreate their routines from the feature film 'Buck Privates.' "Drill Routine" and "Dice Game" are performed.
Working as a door-to-door cookware salesman, Lou prepares a dinner for his friends in hopes of moving some product. However, his honest culinary efforts are met with disaster.
Bud and Lou participate in Hillary's charity bazaar, raising money with the "shell game." Lou blows his money at the kissing booth.
Bud and Lou accept Hillary's invitation to visit her uncle's B-Bar-Bop ranch.
Hillary will inherit a castle if she spends one night there. Bud and Lou come along with her for protection and Lou is scared out of his mind by frightful encounters.
Lou sleeps all day but can't sleep at night. Bud takes him to see a psychiatrist. Eventually Bud checks him into a sanitarium for a night's rest. "Crazy House" is performed.
Bud and Lou visit a couple of restaurants. In one they become involved with twin waitresses. In the other, Lou has a battle with an oyster.
Lou attempts to impress Hillary and her father with his musical abilities. While pretending to perform, Bud falls asleep and ruins the scheme.
Bud coaches Lou on running for public office, a political campaign that ends with Lou delivering a disastrous speech in a neighborhood park.
Lou and Stinky agree to settle their differences with a wrestling match. When Stinky becomes ill, his little brother Ivan the Terrible takes his place.
Bud and Lou are hired to deliver hats to the Susquehanna Hat Company on Floogle Street and encounter several lunatics on the way. Also, Stinky attempts to kill Lou by backing him into traffic. The "Loafing" routine is performed.
Mike the Cop tells Lou that he must have a license for his pet chimp. But Lou accidentally applies for a marriage license.
While shopping for Hillary's birthday present, Lou nearly destroys a grocery store. Later, at her party, Mr. Fields becomes upset about the noise.
Lou is a contestant on a TV quiz show where he wins a pack of bubblegum. Their neighbor slips on a piece of gum and takes them to court.
Bud and Lou pay $90 for a car and head for Las Vegas, where Lou takes part in a violent game of billiards. The "mudder/fodder" routine is performed.
Bud and Lou attempt to help an old lady who has been evicted. They raise $300 and she uses the money to bet on a racehorse.
Bud is taken away to an old actors' home where he and Lou perform their famous "Who's on first?" routine.
Mike the Cop helps Bud and Lou enroll in the Police Rookie School, where Lou blows up the gymnasium while playing with a hand grenade.
When Bingo gets sick, the whole gang travels to Africa to find his parents.
To pay back rent, Bud and Lou attempt to wallpaper an apartment. Later, as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.
Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.
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.
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.
Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."
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.
Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.
Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdog Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.
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.
Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.
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.
Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.
Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.
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.
A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.
When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.
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.
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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