Amos 'n' Andy — 1944
39 episodes broadcast in 1944.
Cupid strikes again: Andy is head over heels for the well-to-do Sabina Emerson, and is at her house working up the nerve to propose.
On a train down from Albany, two wealthy men in the club car trade stories about a strange experience one of them had two weeks earlier on this very run.
Amos's dearest wish is to see Andy hold down a steady job, and he thinks he has hit on the very scheme to make it happen.
Having skipped the lodge's monthly meeting, Andy hears from the Kingfish and Amos just how much he missed by not turning up.
A date on Andy's office calendar is circled every month, and even Lightnin' can't quite work out why Andy is so anxious to remember this particular one.
Some things never change in old New York -- the hansom cabs still roll down the avenue, and there on the corner stands an old-fashioned organ grinder.
For three weeks Andy has hunted for Madame Queen -- not out of love, but because he needs her signature to draw six hundred dollars from a joint account.
Sure no woman can resist him, Andy is more convinced than ever after an incident that afternoon, which he is bursting to recount to Amos and the Kingfish.
Reading the paper over a late breakfast, Andy's eye falls on an advertisement aimed squarely at lonely men -- always a subject close to his heart.
Andy has grown mysterious of late, skipping his usual haunts; alone in his room, he reads over the latest entry in his diary.
Andy finally admits his office -- birthplace of ventures that fold the day they open -- is unnecessary, and talks it over with his friend Amos.
April 28, 1944
#030 The Brother in Law (aka $345 needed for Sapphire's Brother Leroy's New Business
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At the Lodge Hall a celebration honors Andy for long service, one of the few early members still active, as the Kingfish delivers a tribute from the platform.
The lodge's most anticipated night of the year, the annual masquerade, is tonight -- and Amos, Andy and the Kingfish are still wrestling with their costumes.
Andy is walking on air over a beautiful new girl, Mabel Green, running through every familiar symptom of falling in love as he tells Lightnin' the details.
With the Women's Auxiliary meeting the night before, the married men slipped off to a movie marathon, and the boys are now rehashing the show in Andy's office.
Things are normal this week, which means Andy is in trouble again -- this time over a stack of bills he has let go unpaid.
Bitten by the acting bug, Andy takes a course and is in his office rehearsing a dramatic turn as a French foreign legionnaire, with Lightnin' assisting.
Andy has taken a keen interest in young Gertrude Thompson, and after dancing and the theatre she has him up for a quiet dinner that finds him at the sink drying dishes.
A pen company will hand its Harlem sales agency to whoever sells the most by Wednesday, so Andy and the Kingfish team up and boast to Amos of certain victory.
December 8, 1944
#049 (Frank Morgan) Kingfish & the Brazilian Brass Mine (aka House of Frank Morgan
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December 22, 1944
#051 (Paul Taylor Chorus) Annual Christmas Show (aka Xmas Andy Santa Talking Doll
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The program's cherished annual Christmas broadcast, as warm on this hearing as it is on every other.
December 29, 1944
#052 Jackson's New Yrs Eve (Harlow Wilcox ''..used rinso in , come ...'') (aka Not Invited to the Party
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With Harlem's exclusive New Year's Eve party approaching, Andy assures his secretary Miss Blue that he alone among his friends is certain to be invited.
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