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Episode 26
Barber Lou
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
After helping Mrs. Bronson with her amateur benefit show, Bud is exhausted and asks Lou to give him a relaxing rub down by following the instructions of a radio masseuse.
Episode 23
Fencing Master
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Bud volunteers Lou as a human guinea pig in a zany experiment performed by a mad scientist, Dr. Bluzak. Lou thinks he’s indestructible until he gets challenged to a duel by a French fencing master.
Episode 22
Honeymoon House
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
With the aid of Bud and Mr. Fields, Lou constructs a prefabricated house for his fiancée, Sally. The new construction is sabotaged by Sally’s former boyfriend, and when her parents arrive to inspect the dwelling, they are nearly killed.
Episode 21
The Pigeon
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
A beautiful next-door neighbor, Ruby Norton, wants to rid herself of her mobster boyfriend, Steve Terry, so she can marry another man. She hatches a plan to make Terry think that Lou is her lover so that he will kill Lou and go to jail.
Episode 20
Well Oiled
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
When Mr. Fields is threatened with a breach of promise lawsuit from a gold digging woman, the boys come to his aid. With Bud acting as his chauffeur, Lou poses as a Texas oil tycoon in an attempt to romance and discredit her.
Episode 19
Bank Holdup
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Bud and Lou are hired as armed guards for hoodlums Joe and Lefty Lucas, and unwittingly assist in a bank robbery. They pay rent with their cut of the money, then attempt to recover the stolen cash from Mr. Fields’ safe.
Episode 18
Public Enemies
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
When a newspaper runs a story about safe-cracker “Dapper Dan” and accidentally includes Lou’s photograph, a band of thieves living in the rooming house force him to join them in a warehouse robbery.
Episode 17
The Tax Return
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
The IRS accidentally sends Lou a refund for $1 million. After he cashes the check at the bank, he is followed home by a pair of crooks. Meanwhile, Mr. Fields suspects that Lou is a counterfeiter
Episode 16
Private Eye
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
After Lou receives his diploma and private eye gear from “The Watchdog Correspondence School,” he and Bud help a young girl locate $50,000 of bonds hidden inside her eccentric uncle’s spooky mansion.
Episode 15
Uncle from New Jersey
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
After Mr. Fields locks the boys out of their apartment, Bud hatches a plan to convince the landlord that Lou is the sole heir to the fortunes of his rich Uncle Ruppert.
Episode 14
Wife Wanted
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
After a quirky poker game with Mr. Fields, the boys get a letter from Lou’s grandfather, who plans to give him $10,000 if he is married. After several attempts to meet women, Lou reconnects with his former girlfriend.
Episode 13
Car Trouble
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Lou wins an Edam automobile in a mail-in contest, but Bud sells it so they can go to Flint, Michigan and buy a new car. On their trip they encounter Mike the Cop’s twin brother, hobos and an irate sheriff.
Episode 12
Efficiency Experts
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
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 11
Amnesia
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Lou plans to marry Edna, his lonely-hearts penpal, but Bud wants to break up the romance. He convinces Lou that he has amnesia and has a friend pose as Edna to make his life miserable
Episode 10
$1000 TV Prize
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
While trying to repair Mr. Fields’ television set, Lou answers a phone call from the “Money to Burn” quiz show and provides the correct response to the $1000 question.
Episode 9
From Bed to Worse
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
While working in a garden supply store, Bud and Lou learn that a civic group is offering a cash prize for the best backyard garden. The boys decide to enter the competition, but provoke a feud with their next door neighbor in the process.
Episode 8
South of Dixie
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Lou is smitten by a cute new neighbor. Thinking that she is in distress, he bursts into her apartment and into her rehearsal for a Civil War melodrama. Lou is so magnificent in his rescue effort that he lands a role in the play.
Episode 7
Cheapskates
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Bud and Lou accidentally purchase a crate of roller skates at an auction. Unbeknownst to them, the skates have diamonds hidden inside of them, and the smugglers behind the scam have moved into the rooming house.
Episode 6
Killer’s Wife
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Prizefighter Killer King moves into the rooming house and becomes convinced that Lou is fooling around with his wife, Dixie. When Costello accidentally knocks Killer’s sparring partner unconscious, Bud volunteers Lou to take his place.
Episode 5
Pest Exterminators
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
The boys have a new pest extermination business. While on a job at a psychiatrist’s office, they answer a phone call from a Mrs. Featherton, who asks them to come to her house to “take care of her aunts.”
Episode 3
In Society
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Mrs. Olga Van Goo, a wealthy society woman, hires Bud and Lou to impersonate the Duke of Gluten and the Earl of Waldo at her formal reception. But a series of etiquette miscues leads to a food-flinging finale.
Episode 2
Uncle Bozzo’s Visit
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
Lou’s unemployed, opera singing Uncle Bozzo arrives from Italy and wreaks havoc with his booming voice. After a run in with Mike the Cop, the boys and Bozzo get arrested. While in jail, a fellow prisoner recruits them to assist in his escape.
Episode 1
The Paper Hangers
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1953
While attempting to free it from a tight space, the boys damage Mrs. Bronson’s car. Mr. Fields has the boys wallpaper her apartment. Later, they become waiters at a tough seafood joint where they get into a brawl.
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Episode 26
Safari
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bingo is sick in bed with a 172 degree temperature. Lou figures that he misses his family, so the entire gang heads to the Belgian Congo to find Bingo’s father. Lou tangles with a real gorilla, thinking it's Bud in a monkey suit.
Episode 25
Police Rookies
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
The boys plan to enroll in the police academy, and get some pointers from Mike over dinner. Then Professor Melonhead tries to whip them into shape at the police gym, before Lou hits the firing range and “blows up the joint.”
Episode 24
The Actor’s Home
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
While the boys are selling newspapers, a philanthropist gives them two five hundred dollar bills. Assuming they are fake, Bud tears up the money. When he learns the money was real, he goes crazy and gets hauled off to the Retired Actor’s Home.
Episode 23
Little Old Lady
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
The boys attempt to help an old lady who has been dispossessed. They win $300 playing amusement park midway games, but the old lady uses the money to place a bet with her bookie.
Episode 22
Las Vegas
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
The boys have won an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas and decide to take Hillary along. But first they have to buy a used car from Friendly Fields’ Used Car Lot. Later, in Vegas, Lou loses all his money and plays a violent game of billiards.
Episode 21
Television
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud and Lou become contestants on the TV game show and win a pack of bubblegum. Later, their drunk neighbor, John Rednose, slips on the gum outside the rooming house and hauls Mr. Fields to court.
Episode 20
Hillary’s Birthday
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Mr. Fields posts new house rules just as the boys plan a surprise party for Hillary. Lou causes trouble at the supermarket. Later, at Bud's insistence, Lou infuriates Mr. Fields by playing loud music during the party.
Episode 19
The Chimp
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Lou decides to bring Bingo the Chimp home from the pet shop and causes confusion at City Hall when he accidentally applies for a marriage license. Then, at the rooming house, the boys attempt to hide Bingo from Mr. Fields.
Episode 18
Getting a Job
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud finds work loafing in a bakery and insists that Lou also get a job. Lou runs into problems delivering a box of hats to the Susquehanna Hat Company. Later, the boys pay a visit to Mr. Fields’ Employment Agency.
Episode 17
The Wrestling Story
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Lou and Stinky agree to settle their differences in a wrestling match for the policemen’s benefit. Before the match, Bud comes up with a plan to get a free meal by borrowing Mike the Cop’s uniform.
Episode 16
The Politician
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud schemes to take a photograph of Mr. Fields beating up Lou so the boys can sue the landlord. After a councilman gets Lou out of trouble, Bud decides Costello should run for public office.
Episode 15
The Music Lovers
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Hillary’s father is visiting and expresses his desire for her to marry a man with musical talent. Lou takes a disastrous class at Professor Melonhead’s Singing School, and then Bud concocts a scheme to make Costello look like a piano virtuoso.
Episode 14
Hungry
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud and Lou visit a couple of restaurants in search of a satisfying meal and encounter trouble with Mr. Bacciagalupe’s meatballs, twin waitresses and a very fresh oyster.
Episode 13
Peace and Quiet
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Lou is suffering from a terrible bout of insomnia, so Bud takes him to see a psychiatrist, who prescribes “Dr. Drowsy’s Sleep-Inducing Record.” When that doesn’t work, Bud checks Lou into a sanitarium for a good night’s rest.
Episode 12
The Haunted House
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud and Lou accompany Hillary to the haunted castle of her deceased uncle, Montague Brooke. According to his will, if she can spend the entire night there, she’ll inherit the estate and all its treasures.
Episode 11
The Western Story
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud and Lou accept Hillary’s invitation to visit her at her uncle’s “B-Bar-Bop Ranch” near the Mexican border. There, they join a posse tracking down cattle rustlers, and Lou tangles with the leader of the gang in a western saloon.
Episode 10
The Charity Bazaar
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
The boys help out selling tickets for Hillary’s charity bazaar. Lou blows all his money at the kissing booth, and Bud tries raising some funds with the old shell game.
Episode 9
Pots and Pans
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Lou tries his hand at selling aluminum cookware door-to-door. When he volunteers to cook a demonstration duck dinner for the neighbors at Mr. Fields' apartment, culinary mayhem ensues.
Episode 8
The Army Story
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud and Lou join the Army National Guard. While at basic training, they have physicals, shoot dice in the barracks, and go through drill practice.
Episode 7
The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud and Lou visit the employment agency run by Mr. Fields’ brother, and Lou lands a job selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. His demonstration skills are then put to the test at a farmhouse with disastrous results.
Episode 6
Alaska
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Lou receives word that his uncle has struck gold in Alaska, and the boys plan to join him. But they are delayed by a bank robbery, and then literally get stuck when Lou accidentally adds quick-drying cement to Bud’s foot bath.
Episode 4
The Vacation
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Bud and Lou plan to vacation at the Biltmore Hotel near Phoenix, and stock up at Sporty Fields’ sporting goods store. But as Lou packs, Bud worries that Mr. Fields will rent their apartment out from under them while they’re gone.
Episode 3
Jail
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Lou shoots a hole in Mrs. Crumbcake’s water pail, and she sues him for 79 cents in damages. While in jail, he comes to blows with a crazed cell mate, who becomes enraged at the mere mention of “Niagara Falls.”
Episode 2
The Dentist’s Office
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
Lou has a terrible toothache, so Bud takes him to the dentist where Hillary works as a nurse. When the dentist fails to help, Bud schemes to get Lou arrested in order to receive free treatment in jail.
Episode 1
The Drug Store
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1952
With Bud and Lou eight weeks behind on rent and facing eviction, Mr. Fields sends them to work in his brother's drug store. Unfortunately, Lou can’t cut it as a soda jerk and ends up wrecking the place.
