Abbott and Costello — 1946
37 episodes broadcast in 1946.
January 10, 1946
Costello's Singing Lesson
Determined to sing on the program, Lou is marched to a music company for a lesson.
January 17, 1946
Costello Wins a Horse, Girdle
Lou wins a horse named Girdle and takes him to a trainer to run at Santa Anita.
Working Melonhead's restaurant, Lou waits tables and helps cater a party for Mrs. Niles.
January 31, 1946
Abbott and Costello Detective Agency
The boys open a detective agency and, with Officer Melonhead's help, run down a masked bank bandit.
Lou brings a pig home from the farm, the boys are evicted, and an apartment hunt begins.
Working Mrs. Niles's apartment hotel, the boys welcome tenants and battle a bee infestation.
Lou hunts a leading lady for his annual spring play, with Professor Melonhead directing.
Behind the counter of his drugstore and dodging the rent, Lou somehow manages to discover uranium.
With the tax deadline at hand and no money, Lou scrambles to borrow from everyone in sight.
March 21, 1946
Minding the Baby
Stuck minding a baby, the boys take it to their movie premiere and end up at the wrong theater -- a Laurel and Hardy picture.
Lou dislikes his sister's fiance, who orders his trousers shortened, and gets thrown out of the house.
April 4, 1946
Delicatessen Salesman
Working Bud's bakery-delicatessen, Lou waits on customers and must bake a cake for Mrs. Niles.
Lou shoots at a garden crow, hits Mrs. Niles, and lands in court with lawyer Melonhead.
Running a pet shop, Lou loses a dog he was minding and hunts for it -- by way of the marriage-license window.
Newly appointed Sheriff of North Hollywood, Lou rides Mrs. Niles's ranch after rustler Cactus Pete.
Lou fancies himself for a Napoleon role, and the boys enact the play with Melonhead directing.
Lou runs off to join the circus while Mrs. Niles tries to get him fired.
Asked to run for mayor of South Paterson, Lou trains east and gets stuck in a cattle car.
May 23, 1946
Costello Wants to Run for Mayor
In New York, Lou's mayoral ambitions continue as the team is named Magazine Digest's Outstanding Comedy Team of the Air.
From Radio City, the boys are invited to guest Elsa Maxwell's party and made to put on a play for her guests.
Back in Hollywood and short on rent, the boys are locked in by Mrs. Niles and sneak out to find a room.
June 13, 1946
A Date with Charles Boyers Girl
Lou lands a date with Charles Boyer's girl but can't find swim trunks for the beach.
Newly engaged Bud has Lou play butler for the dinner where he'll present his girl, with Melonhead coaching.
On the eve of summer vacation the boys plan a Mexico trip and take Spanish lessons from Melonhead.
The new season opens with Bud fed up and a remorseful Lou dreaming of his good and bad deeds; enter bandleader Skinnay Ennis and singer Marilyn Maxwell.
Lou hears a horn every time he lies, and Bud hauls him off to have the affliction examined.
October 17, 1946
Trying to Get Costello Married
Bud schemes to marry Lou off -- really a ploy to get twenty-eight dollars out of him.
October 24, 1946
To Fight or Not to Fight
Lou has promised to fight, and both men keep flip-flopping until Marilyn talks him out of it.
October 31, 1946
Halloween Party
Nobody comes to Lou's Halloween party, and Bud goads him into tearing down a fence -- and getting arrested.
November 7, 1946
Marilyn Maxwell's Apartment
Smitten with Marilyn Maxwell, who's moving in upstairs, Lou snoops on the neighboring apartment.
November 14, 1946
The Undertaker's National Organization
Fitted for a suit and French lessons for the 'UNO,' Lou learns it's the Undertaker's National Organization, not the United Nations.
November 21, 1946
The Ucla Football Team
When Marilyn falls for a football player, Bud gets Lou onto the UCLA team -- as a vendor.
November 28, 1946
Thanksgiving Play
For Thanksgiving, Lou stages a holiday play.
On a mountain hunting trip the boys chase a $1,000 mountain lion, and Lou talks the beast out of its skin.
Bud's scheme to make $10,000 involves shooting Lou to the moon in a rocket -- which Lou flatly refuses to board.
December 19, 1946
Christmas Gifts
Christmas week finds the boys trading gift talk and one of Lou's ever-interrupted fairy tales.
December 26, 1946
Guest: Kay Kyser
Deep in installment debt from gift-buying, Lou visits guest Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge.
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