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Lou Costello Memorial - Return to Paterson

Return to Paterson

Lou Costello gets a telegram, asking him to return to Paterson for a celebration! Can Professor Mellonhead teach him to speak properly?

Bud and Lou carrying presents

Father’s Day Gift

Lou Costello needs a Father’s Day gift for his father, so he and Bud Abbott head to the department store. That pillow up there? It’s down. Lou wants to buy a vest for him, and the world’s greatest authority on men’s clothing, Professor Melonhead, wants to help!

Costello Gets A Tattoo - The Abbott and Costello Radio Show, Broadcast June 7, 1945

Costello Gets A Tattoo

First Costello gets a tattoo of his girlfriend on his chest, goes girl crazy, goes to the beach, and gets psychoanalyzed by Sid Fields!

Harry (Bud Abbott) recognizes the disguised Joe (Lou Costello)

Spanish Acting School

Spanish Acting School – The Abbott and Costello Radio Show – Lou Costello wants to be a “serious” actor — and since they need a leading lady for the movie they’re currently shooting (The Naughty Nineties) – Bud Abbott arranges to have Lou take Spanish Acting Lessons from Sid Fields, then see if he can fool the movie studio into thinking that Lou’s a señorita!

Billboard of The Andrews Sisters

Making A Movie With The Andrews Sisters

Making A Movie With The Andrews Sisters – The Andrews Sisters sue Bud and Lou for slander! And they’ll work it off by costarring in the Sisters’ next picture! Ending with Lou singing with the ladies!

Lou takes singing lessons from Professor Melonhead in "The Music Lovers"

Charm School

Lou Costello’s love life is a shambles, but he wants to date Connie Haines. But Bud Abbot’s going to make him attend charm school first! Then, tightwad Lou takes them to eat at The Ritz!

Basic Training - The Abbott and Costello Radio Show, March 22, 1945

Basic Training

Basic Training – Broadcast live from the Davis Monthan Air Base, in Tucson, Arizona. Bud and Lou joke about life in the military, Benny Rubin sells Lou a very restrictive mortgage for a new home, and Lou has a fantasy about how “easy” life in the Air Force would be!

Colgate Comedy Hour - 1/11/53 - Victor Borge, Gisele MacKenzie

Colgate Comedy Hour – 1/11/53

Abbott & Costello host a mock Inaugural Ball for new President Eisenhower, including a hilarious recital by Victor Borge sending up outgoing President Truman. Gisele McKenzie sings.

New Press Agent - The Abbott and Costello Radio Show - a soggy saga of the Sahara

New Press Agent

Bud Abbott hires a new press agent for Lou Costello, who plans a photo opportunity of Lou working on the farm! Zingo! But Lou has to pay his taxes first! Then, it’s time for a soggy saga of the Sahara desert, as the boys have to rescue the princess Ben Ali!