9.0/101 votes#1 - $1,000 TV Prize
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
9.0/101 votes#2 - Well Oiled
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1954
Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
9.0/101 votes#3 - Fencing Master
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 4/10/1954
A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
9.0/101 votes#4 - Barber Lou
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/1/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields
8.0/102 votes#5 - Jail
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/19/1952
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."
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Eddie Forman
8.0/101 votes#6 - The Actors' Home
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/15/1953
Bud is taken away to an old actors' home where he and Lou perform their famous "Who's on first?" routine.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields
8.0/101 votes#7 - Amnesia
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.0/101 votes#8 - Efficiency Experts
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.0/101 votes#9 - Car Trouble
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.0/101 votes#10 - Wife Wanted
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.0/101 votes#11 - Uncle from New Jersey
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.0/101 votes#12 - Private Eye
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1954
After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdog Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.0/101 votes#13 - The Tax Return
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.0/101 votes#14 - Bank Holdup
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1954
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
8.0/101 votes#15 - The Pigeon
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1954
Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Clyde Bruckman
8.0/101 votes#16 - Beauty Contest Story
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/17/1954
When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Jack Townley
7.5/102 votes#17 - The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/16/1953
Bud and Lou visit an employment agency run by Mr. Fields' brother, who gives Lou a job selling vacuum cleaners door to door.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields
7.5/102 votes#18 - The Army Story
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/23/1953
Bud and Lou join the Army, where they recreate their routines from the feature film 'Buck Privates.' "Drill Routine" and "Dice Game" are performed.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields
7.0/101 votes#19 - Kate's Recipe for Hot Rhubarb
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1963
When Billie Jo has to come up with a fourth for her double date with Junior Hocker and Junior's visiting friend Roger Budd, Kate suggests Bobbie Jo to her. Billie Jo doesn't think Bobbie Jo would be a good fit as she knows all the boys see Bobbie Jo as a book worm instead of a fun girl. Convincing Bobbie Jo may be more difficult as Bobbie Jo admits that she just doesn't feel comfortable around boys yet. She goes on the date, but comes home early saying she just can't compete with Billie Jo. Kate tries to teach Bobbie Jo how to flatter a man the way Billie Jo does. On her next date with Roger, things go much better.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Dick Wesson
7.0/101 votes#20 - A Night at the Hooterville Hilton
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1963
A brochure made by Uncle Joe describing the incomparable Shady Rest Hotel of the future is accidentally mailed to The Centerville Sun Express travel columnist Gladys Stroud. In the brochure was the vision of what he hoped the hotel would one day be, including indoor ice rink, bowling alley, and swimming pool. Gladys decides to come and review the Shady Rest. Now the family has to scramble to keep her from finding out the truth and closing them down for lying. Despite their best efforts, Gladys finds out. Uncle Joe manages to sweet talk Gladys into not closing them down.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Seaman Jacobs
7.0/101 votes#21 - Bobbie Jo and the Beatnik
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1964
Bobbie Jo brings home Alan Landman, a mad-at-the-world young poet and slacker who has won her heart. Despite Bobbie Jo liking him in every respect, he dismisses her way of life. Bobbie Jo wants to prove him wrong, while deep down she wants to find out for herself if Alan is really right about how meaningless her conventional life is. The family's impression of Alan is quite dismal. Kate has to figure out a way to make Bobbie Jo come to the conclusion on her own that Alan and his life do not deserve to be romanticized.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Bill Manhoff
7.0/101 votes#22 - My Daughter the Doctor
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1964
Billie Jo receives a $500 insurance endowment, which her late father set aside for his first-born to become a doctor. But Billie Jo wants to go to Hollywood to become an actress. Kate thinks that Hooterville's long time doctor, Dr. Depew, can talk Billie Jo into it. But Kate's thinks that Dr. Depew's handsome new assistant, Dr. Clayton Harris, would be able to convince Billie Jo even more. So using Uncle Joe as a patient with non-existing symptoms, Kate hopes to have Dr. Harris make a thorough examination with Billie Jo as his assistant, exposing her to the wonders of modern medicine. But, Billie Jo faints at the first sight of blood.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Seaman Jacobs
7.0/102 votes#23 - The Vacation
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/26/1952
Bud and Lou head off to the Biltmore Hotel near Phoenix for a vacation. "Hertz U-Drive" and the "Pack-Unpack" routines are performed.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields
7.0/102 votes#24 - Pots and Pans
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/30/1953
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.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields
7.0/102 votes#25 - The Charity Bazaar
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/6/1953
Bud and Lou participate in Hillary's charity bazaar, raising money with the "shell game." Lou blows his money at the kissing booth.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: Sid Fields
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"$1,000 TV Prize" is the best rated episode directed by Jean Yarbrough. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Jack Townley. It aired on 1/9/1954 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Well Oiled".