Amos 'n' Andy — 1943
13 episodes broadcast in 1943.
In the first half-hour show and the first before a live audience, a wire warns Andy that Uncle Edgar arrives tomorrow -- and Andy has some old fibs to smooth over first.
Fresh from a correspondence course, Andy opens a piano school with the Kingfish, undeterred by never once having touched a keyboard.
The Kingfish, who can usually talk his way clear of anything, lands in a legal tangle that looks like far more trouble than even he can handle.
October 29, 1943
#004 (Franklin Pangorn) Chair (2nd ∏ of show Only) (aka The Chippendale Chair Pt 2
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Dodging honest work as usual, Andy comes home from an auction with a locked trunk he bought for five dollars and no idea what is inside.
Andy can hardly wait: his nephew Jimmy, home on military leave, is coming to New York to spend it with his Uncle Andy.
Three small-time counterfeiters, badly in need of a hideout for their racket, comb the classified ads of the New York papers for a place to operate.
The evening opens not in Harlem but at Pritchard's department store downtown, where society's Mrs. Van Porter approaches the gift counter and a salesgirl named Ginger Rogers.
Facing a domestic problem, the Kingfish drags Andy along to consult the celebrated authority on marriage, author Robert Benchley.
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