The Best Episodes of The Abbott and Costello Show

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

Lou attempts to impress Hillary and her father with his musical abilities. While pretending to perform, Bud falls asleep and ruins the scheme.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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

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.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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

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

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

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

Bud coaches Lou on running for public office, a political campaign that ends with Lou delivering a disastrous speech in a neighborhood park.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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, Lou Costello

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

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

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.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Clyde Bruckman

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

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Jack Townley

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

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

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

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Jack Townley

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

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.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Sid Fields

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.

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Clyde Bruckman

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

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writer: Jack Townley

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

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