Bobby Barber

Got any money? A classic Abbott and Costello routine, where Bud plans to borrow money from Lou …

Abbott & Costello – The Christmas Show

by Tom Raymond
January 5, 2024January 2, 2024

Abbott & Costello – The Christmas Show – from the Colgate Comedy Hour, a very entertaining Christmas speciala featuring Bud and Lou

Fall Guy

by Tom Raymond
January 8, 2023October 7, 2023

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.

The Pigeon

by Tom Raymond
November 21, 2022October 7, 2023

Episode 47, The Pigeon – The 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!

Public Enemies

by Tom Raymond
November 1, 2022October 7, 2023

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.

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

The Tax Return

by Tom Raymond
October 10, 2022October 7, 2023

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.

Private Eye

by Tom Raymond
October 1, 2022October 7, 2023

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.

Car Trouble

by Tom Raymond
September 9, 2022October 7, 2023

Car Trouble – The 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.

Efficiency Experts

by Tom Raymond
September 5, 2022September 5, 2022

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!

South of Dixie

by Tom Raymond
July 9, 2022January 18, 2024

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

Pest Exterminators

by Tom Raymond
June 10, 2022October 7, 2023

Episode 31, Pest Exterminators, The Abbott and Costello Show Season 2

Pest Exterminators – The boys have a new pest extermination business. While on a job at a psychiatrist’s office, they answer a phone call from a Mrs. Featherton, who asks them to come to her house to “take care of her aunts.”