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The Abbott and Costello Show

Season 2 1953 - 1954
TV-G

  • 1953-11-07T05:00:00Z on Syndication
  • 25m
  • 11h 11m (26 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Family
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.

26 episodes

Season Premiere

1953-11-07T05:00:00Z

2x01 The Paper Hangers

Season Premiere

2x01 The Paper Hangers

  • 1953-11-07T05:00:00Z26m

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

1953-11-14T05:00:00Z

2x02 Uncle Bozzo's Visit

2x02 Uncle Bozzo's Visit

  • 1953-11-14T05:00:00Z26m

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

1953-11-21T05:00:00Z

2x03 In Society

2x03 In Society

  • 1953-11-21T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1953-11-28T05:00:00Z

2x04 Life Insurance

2x04 Life Insurance

  • 1953-11-28T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1953-12-05T05:00:00Z

2x05 Pest Exterminators

2x05 Pest Exterminators

  • 1953-12-05T05:00:00Z26m

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

1953-12-12T05:00:00Z

2x06 Killer's Wife

2x06 Killer's Wife

  • 1953-12-12T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1953-12-19T05:00:00Z

2x07 Cheap Skates

2x07 Cheap Skates

  • 1953-12-19T05:00:00Z25m

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

1953-12-26T05:00:00Z

2x08 South of Dixie

2x08 South of Dixie

  • 1953-12-26T05:00:00Z26m

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

1954-01-02T05:00:00Z

2x09 From Bed to Worse

2x09 From Bed to Worse

  • 1954-01-02T05:00:00Z26m

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

1954-01-09T05:00:00Z

2x10 $1,000 TV Prize

2x10 $1,000 TV Prize

  • 1954-01-09T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1954-01-16T05:00:00Z

2x11 Amnesia

2x11 Amnesia

  • 1954-01-16T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1954-01-23T05:00:00Z

2x12 Efficiency Experts

2x12 Efficiency Experts

  • 1954-01-23T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1954-01-30T05:00:00Z

2x13 Car Trouble

2x13 Car Trouble

  • 1954-01-30T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1954-02-06T05:00:00Z

2x14 Wife Wanted

2x14 Wife Wanted

  • 1954-02-06T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1954-02-13T05:00:00Z

2x15 Uncle from New Jersey

2x15 Uncle from New Jersey

  • 1954-02-13T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1954-02-20T05:00:00Z

2x16 Private Eye

2x16 Private Eye

  • 1954-02-20T05:00:00Z26m

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

1954-02-27T05:00:00Z

2x17 The Tax Return

2x17 The Tax Return

  • 1954-02-27T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1954-03-06T05:00:00Z

2x18 Public Enemies

2x18 Public Enemies

  • 1954-03-06T05:00:00Z25m

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

1954-03-13T05:00:00Z

2x19 Bank Holdup

2x19 Bank Holdup

  • 1954-03-13T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1954-03-20T05:00:00Z

2x20 Well Oiled

2x20 Well Oiled

  • 1954-03-20T05:00:00Z26m

Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.

1954-03-27T05:00:00Z

2x21 The Pigeon

2x21 The Pigeon

  • 1954-03-27T05:00:00Z26m

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

1954-04-03T05:00:00Z

2x22 Honeymoon House

2x22 Honeymoon House

  • 1954-04-03T05:00:00Z26m

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.

1954-04-10T05:00:00Z

2x23 Fencing Master

2x23 Fencing Master

  • 1954-04-10T05:00:00Z25m

A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.

1954-04-17T05:00:00Z

2x24 Beauty Contest Story

2x24 Beauty Contest Story

  • 1954-04-17T05:00:00Z26m

When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.

1954-04-24T05:00:00Z

2x25 Fall Guy

2x25 Fall Guy

  • 1954-04-24T05:00:00Z26m

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.

Season Finale

1954-05-01T04:00:00Z

2x26 Barber Lou

Season Finale

2x26 Barber Lou

  • 1954-05-01T04:00:00Z26m

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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