Skip to content
Fall Guy, The Abbott and Costello Show season 2

Fall Guy

Fall Guy The Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired April 24, 1954

In Fall Guy, Bud and Lou are behind on their rent — again. After a penniless day of trying to sell “No Peddlers Allowed” signs, Bud and Lou are approached by two men. It’s a scheme that will land them two hundred dollars. All they have to do is take two sisters out on a date …. And then switch places with the men. But as soon as they arrive at the girls’ home, their father wants the boys to install a new TV antenna on his roof.

Fall Guy
Lou Costello and Bud Abbott in The Pigeon, The Abbott and Costello Show season 2

The Pigeon

Episode 47, The PigeonThe Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired March 27, 1954

In The Pigeon, a beautiful next-door neighbor, Ruby Norton, wants to rid herself of her mobster boyfriend, Steve Terry, so she can marry another man. She hatches a plan to make Terry think that Lou is her lover so that he will kill Lou and go to jail!

The Pigeon
Lou Costello and Bud Abbott in Public Enemies

Public Enemies

Public Enemies, The Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired March 6, 1954

In Public Enemies, a newspaper runs a story about safe-cracker “Dapper Dan” and accidentally includes Lou’s photograph. This has a band of thieves living in the rooming house force him to join them in a warehouse robbery.

Public Enemies
Down to his underwear, the bank finally accepts Lou's identification

The Tax Return

In The Tax Return, the IRS accidentally sends Lou a refund for $1 million. After he cashes the check at the bank, he is followed home by a pair of crooks. Meanwhile, Mr. Fields suspects that Lou is a counterfeiter.

The Tax Return
Lou Costello handcuffed to Bud Abbott in "Private Eye"

Private Eye

Private Eye, The Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired February 20, 1954

In Private Eye, Lou receives his diploma and private eye gear from “The Watchdog Correspondence School.” Then he and Bud help a young girl locate $50,000 of bonds hidden inside her eccentric uncle’s spooky mansion. But her cousin, who was disowned, tries to scare them off.

Private Eye
Car Trouble - The Abbott and Costello Show season 2

Car Trouble

Car TroubleThe Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired January 30, 1954

In Car Trouble, Lou wins an Edam automobile in a mail-in contest, but Bud sells it so they can go to Flint, Michigan and buy a new car. On their trip they encounter Mike the Cop’s twin brother, hobos and an irate sheriff.

Car Trouble
Lou Costello trying to eat the 'ladyfingers surprise cake' in "Efficiency Experts"

Efficiency Experts

Bud and Lou land jobs as efficiency experts. They’re assigned to restrain their client’s daughters from spending money. The young women, however, get the boys to buy them expensive dresses and take them to a casino, where they end up in a brawl. And burn down the casino!

Efficiency Experts
South of Dixie - The Abbott and Costello Show season 2, originally aired December 26, 1953

South of Dixie

Lou is smitten by a cute girl. Thinking she’s in distress, he bursts into her apartment & her rehearsal for a Civil War play – South of Dixie

South of Dixie