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!
Costello Gets A Tattoo
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!
Spanish Acting School
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!
Making A Movie With The Andrews Sisters
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!
Charm School
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!
Basic Training
Lou Costello working on the farm
Working on the farm is a routine that Abbott and Costello did many times. On their radio show (New Press Agent), on the Colgate Comedy Hour (1/13/1952 – Ranch), and on the Abbott and Costello TV show (The Music Lovers).
The following is taken from The Abbott and Costello Radio Show episode, “New Press Agent”
Lou Costello working on the farm
Frank Sinatra – School Days
On the Abbott and Costello Radio Show, Frank Sinatra is this week’s guest star. And Lou’s jealous, until he learns that Sinatra’s also from his home state of New Jersey! Then they imagine what it would have been like if they all went to elementary school together …
Frank Sinatra – School Days
Rudy Vallee
On this week’s Abbott and Costello Radio Show, guest star Rudy Vallee is going to help Bud and Lou do Jack and the Beanstalk. He’s only here to help!
Rudy Vallee
Colgate Comedy Hour 3.32
Colgate Comedy Hour, season 3 – Abbott & Costello, Teresa Brewer, Hoagy Carmichael, the Amin Brothers, broadcast April 26, 1953
In this episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour, Bud and Lou are ostensibly going to the world premiere of “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars“. If they can get past the doorman! Then …
Colgate Comedy Hour 3.32
Stolen Oranges
A remake of “The Lawyer with The Mad Russian“, Lou Costello gets into trouble shooting a neighbor stealing his oranges! Then she takes him to court! With Mr. Kitzel as his lawyer?
Stolen Oranges