Abbott and Costello — 1948
104 episodes broadcast in 1948.
January 3, 1948
(untitled)
Lou aspires to be a dramatic actor, and Bud plays a girl to help him rehearse a love scene.
For National Dog Week, would-be landlord Lou buys a fully occupied apartment house and finds nowhere to live himself.
January 17, 1948
(untitled)
Lou inherits $800,000 from Grandfather 'Diamond Jim' Costello, but twin brother Dewey claims it, sending them hunting for a birth certificate.
January 24, 1948
(untitled)
Lou helps columnist Erskine Johnson dig up dirt for his Hollywood column.
A telegram from an African diamond mine sends the boys shipping out to fetch a gem.
February 7, 1948
(untitled)
Lou's new ranch has no bathtub, so the boys wrestle one home from a swap shop atop the car.
February 14, 1948
(untitled)
February 18, 1948
(untitled)
February 21, 1948
(untitled)
February 28, 1948
(untitled)
Uncle Mike wires that he's struck gold, sending the boys by dog sled to Alaska.
March 6, 1948
(untitled)
A tax man tells Lou he owes nothing if he earns nothing -- then Mrs. Abbott hands him twenty dollars he now has to get rid of.
March 13, 1948
(untitled)
March 17, 1948
Lou Takes a Driving Test
On St. Patrick's Day, license-less Lou borrows Bud's car for a driving test and collects a ticket.
March 20, 1948
(untitled)
March 24, 1948
Guest: Frank Nelson
Going steady with Sylvia Specticals, Lou gets posture help from Melonhead and woman-wooing lessons from guest Frank Nelson.
March 27, 1948
(untitled)
With Uncle Mike running for mayor, Lou sets out to become a Treasury 'T-Man.'
April 3, 1948
(untitled)
An ailing Lou is dosed with mothballs and vitamins as Bud despairs of his way with women.
April 10, 1948
(untitled)
A French uncle wires for help with France's money troubles, sending the boys to a Paris cafe.
April 17, 1948
(untitled)
The boys open a marriage bureau and try to marry off Bud's older sister -- until Lou drives the customers away.
April 24, 1948
(untitled)
Bud pushes Lou toward work and tries to place him as a babysitter, ending up doing the job himself.
May 1, 1948
(untitled)
As the new sheriff of Encino, Lou investigates the spooky house of mysterious guest Bela Lugosi and finds a corpse.
May 8, 1948
(untitled)
Told twelve million people listen, the boys run their own radio poll to check the number.
May 15, 1948
(untitled)
Lou enters his broken-down horse, Peanut Butter, at Hollywood Park.
May 22, 1948
(untitled)
Amid a kidnapping and a house fire, Lou is recruited into what turns out to be the Foreign Legion.
May 29, 1948
(untitled)
Lou's girl has a date with guest Lon Chaney Jr., who warns him to keep his distance.
June 5, 1948
(untitled)
June 9, 1948
Lou Is Asked to Help on Uncle Tom's Ranch
Uncle Tom invites Lou out to help run his ranch.
June 12, 1948
(untitled)
Guest Benny Rubin pitches an audience-participation bit as Susan fumes over Lou's other date.
June 19, 1948
(untitled)
June 23, 1948
Costello's Big Inheritance
June 26, 1948
(untitled)
June 30, 1948
Lou Takes in a Lost Dog
Lou brings a dog named Hector to the studio, tries to auction him, then takes a pet-shop job to keep him.
July 3, 1948
(untitled)
Planning a vacation, an aching Lou can't get anyone but a kid in the audience to fetch him an aspirin.
July 10, 1948
(untitled)
July 14, 1948
The Adventures of Sam Shovel, Master Detective
Lou debuts his murder-mystery alter ego, Sam Shovel, Master Detective, with Bud as a police lieutenant.
July 17, 1948
(untitled)
July 21, 1948
(untitled)
July 24, 1948
(untitled)
July 31, 1948
(untitled)
August 4, 1948
Costello in Court
August 7, 1948
(untitled)
August 14, 1948
(untitled)
August 18, 1948
Lou Considers Going Into Politics
August 21, 1948
(untitled)
August 25, 1948
Lou Looks for a Job
August 28, 1948
(untitled)
September 1, 1948
(untitled)
September 4, 1948
(untitled)
September 15, 1948
(untitled)
September 18, 1948
(untitled)
September 25, 1948
(untitled)
October 2, 1948
(untitled)
October 7, 1948
(untitled)
October 9, 1948
(untitled)
October 16, 1948
(untitled)
October 23, 1948
(untitled)
October 30, 1948
(untitled)
November 6, 1948
(untitled)
November 13, 1948
(untitled)
November 20, 1948
(untitled)
The 1948 Thanksgiving broadcast.
November 27, 1948
(untitled)
December 4, 1948
(untitled)
December 25, 1948
(untitled)
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