Abott and Costello Series
Written by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Narrated by Full Cast
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Titles in the series (100)
- Abbott and Costello: Featuring Cary Grant
25
Lou needs to get to his radio station. Abbott and Costello do a Watt is Voltage routine. Cary Grant shows up at Lou's radio station. Cary introduces Don Barcley. They do juggling act. Cary has a writer for Lou's radio station. Lou does an all night record program.
- Abbott and Costello: Knights in Shining Armor
5
Merle does the voices of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, an electric organ and hiccups. Lou wants to play the romantic lead in Merle's next picture. The cast does, The Brave Knight Cut Off The Dragon's Tail, or, The Dragon Isn't Waggin' Anymore. Costello plays, Sir Porterhouse, Abbott plays, Sir Loin.
- Abbott and Costello: English Butler
9
Abbott and Costello visit the Hugo Gessit Employment Agency to hire a butler. Treacher visits Costello before the visit of Lynn Bari next week.
- Abbott and Costello: Dance Lessons
2
Bud and Lou go to a dance school. Bud gets a job at the school and tries to get Lou to dance. Lessons are 3 for a dollar. Then they discuss how last week they formed the Wacky film company. Next Bud and Lou do a bit about Christopher Columbus. Lou is Columbus. Bud mistakenly calls Lou instead of Columbus.
- Abbott and Costello: Lion Hunting
1
Bud and Lou set out for their safari, and will meet Skinny and Marilyn at the lodge later. But first, let the jokes about hunting reign. Marilyn pops in to help with the jokes, then Lou runs into the Game Warden. He has a special job for Lou, capture the lion that has been roaming the woods. Marilyn sings, Blue Skies.`The big moment arrives, and Lou has the lion trapped in a cave. When his bravery pays off there’s a big musical finale to end the show.
- Abbott and Costello: Making a Movie
19
The boys are trying to get guest Dorothy Lamour to appear in their new picture. Dorothy reads one of her lines as, Bing Hope and Bob Crosby. Abbott and Costello rescue Dorothy from a desert Sheik.
- Abbott and Costello: The Lawyer
13
Costello tries to get paid his year's wages. Mrs. Niles is going to sue Abbott, so the boys hire a lawyer...Bert Gordon as The Mad Russian (who has trouble reading his script and cracks up Costello).
- Abbott and Costello: Sports Equipment
4
Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s. The show mixed comedy with musical interludes and special guests.
- Abbott and Costello: Featuring Alan Hale
8
Guests Sally Eilers and Alan Hale join Abbott and Costello at the circus. Costello is the target at a baseball throwing concession, then wrestles Alan Hale.
- Abbott and Costello: Job at a Department Store
33
Costello has just returned from his uncle's farm, where he's been working. Costello gets a Mother's Day job at Beaglebottom's Department Store. Guest Claire Trevor visits the store to buy perfume.
- Abbott and Costello: Hunting Guide
6
Abbott and Costello talk about the butter and meat shortages. Abbott and Costello go hunting in the north woods with guest Claire Trevor as a guide.
- Abbott and Costello: Bank Robbery with Marlene Dietrich
3
Abbott and Costello ride into Dead Pan Gulch on the trail of Black Pete, the bank robber. Black Pete turns out to be guest Marlene Dietrich!
- Abbott and Costello: Trip to Palm Springs
7
The boys plan to visit guest Veronica Lake, but first have to stop by the U-Drive car rental agency.
- Abbott and Costello: Nylon Stockings
10
Lou tries to get a pair of nylons for Connie Haines from guest Lucille Ball. Two flubbed lines cracks up almost everyone.
- Abbott and Costello: Playing the Piano
16
Costello plans to play a Rachmaninoff piano concerto at Janet Blair's party. Professor Nazarro arrives to give Lou a quick piano lesson.
- Abbott and Costello: Thanksgiving 1943
11
Abbott and Costello talk about football, Uncle Mike and Aunt May and thanksgiving dinner. They say Thanksgiving day is almost over. Lou talks to Veola Vonn about dating and marriage. Lou writes a play for Thanksgiving and they perform it.
- Abbott and Costello: Lou Is Not Feeling Well
14
Abbott teaches Costello to flee the flu! A visit to Peter Lorre's sanitarium...at midnight!
- Abbott and Costello: Basic Training
44
The program originates from Davis Monthan Air Base, Tucson, Arizona and features a routine about horses, and another about army life.
- Abbott and Costello: Football Game
15
Costello takes on The Great Gildersleeve, on and off the football field.
- Abbott and Costello: Date with Connie Haines
23
Bud teases Costello about getting married. Abbott goes on a date with Connie, despite a threat from tough-guy (guest) John Garfield.
- Abbott and Costello: A Psychiatrist for Costello
21
Lou is acting strange as though he is sick. Abbott and Costello do Vitamin B1 routine. Bud takes Lou to a psychiatrist. The nurse is Linda Darnell. Nurse Darnel takes Lou to a rest home. Lou has to do Connie Haines' lines since she was not ready.
- Abbott and Costello: Robinson Crusoe
30
Joe Somer has committed suicide by jumping off the roof. The suicide note he left behind is legit, but Vance suspects that the case is a murder.
- Abbott and Costello: The Wild West
12
The opening routine is about Costello's wardrobe. Abbott and Costello are working in Meyer's Butcher Shop. Guest Lynn Bari joins Abbott and Costello in a western drama about Buffalo Bill.
- Abbott and Costello: Circus
28
Costello wants to join the circus. Abbott loses his place in the script.
- Abbott and Costello: Lou Goes to Jail
31
Costello has to get rid of $38,000 before the income tax is due, so the boys visit the race track.
- Abbott and Costello: Running a Newspaper
17
An excellent story about the last voyage of an old freighter, her sick captain, and the strange Dr. Percival. You are trapped aboard an ill-fated ocean liner, captained by a dying man, whilst a mysterious stranger, haunting you, menacing you, seems intent on sending you to destruction...
- Abbott and Costello: Lou's Engaged to Judy Canova
24
The opening routine is about leap year and Costello's romance. He's against marriage. Will Costello marry guest Judy Canova?
- Abbott and Costello: Lou Shoots an Orange Picker
38
Mrs. Beanbag is suing Costello for shooting at her. He tries to settle for fifty cents, but Abbott hires Mr. Kitzel, the lawyer to defend Costello.
- Abbott and Costello: Christmas Shopping for Lou's Girlfriend
36
Bud and Lou take a trolley downtown to go Christmas shopping.
Bud Abbott
William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, best known for his film comedy double act, as straight man to Lou Costello.
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