Episode
The Abbott and Costello Show: Efficiency Experts
Overview
Bud and Lou land jobs as efficiency experts, and are 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.
Details
- Series
- The Abbott and Costello Show
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1954-01-23
Episode context
Efficiency Experts is Episode 12 in Season 2 of The Abbott and Costello Show. It aired on 1954-01-23.
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Episode 11: Amnesia
Lou is in love with a girl he has never met. As a gag, Bud and his friends convince him that he has already married the girl. The woman who poses as his wife then makes his existence miserable.
Episode 13: Car Trouble
When Lou wins a car, Bud sells it to buy a cheaper one, using the profits to try to finance a vacation in Flint, Michigan.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: $1,000 TV Prize
Lou wins a $1,000 dollar prize pretending to be Mr. Fields. He then has to get Mr. Fields out of the way so he can collect it.
Episode 14: Wife Wanted
When Lou finds out he will inherit $10,000 provided that he has a wife, he tries to marry a former girlfriend—who is dating a man named Bonebender Brodsky.
Episode 9: From Bed to Worse
Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.
Episode 15: Uncle from New Jersey
When Mr. Fields is just about to evict the boys, Bud convinces him that Lou's Uncle Ruppert is a millionaire and Lou is the sole heir. Complications arise, however, when Mike the Cop begins to believe that the visiting uncle (Lou in disguise) has been murdered.
Episode 8: South of Dixie
Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
Episode 16: Private Eye
After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdog Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.
Episode 7: Cheap Skates
Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.
Episode 17: The Tax Return
Lou receives a tax refund check for $1,000,000. He takes the check to a bank and demands cash. He is subsequently followed by home by crooks.
Episode 6: Killer's Wife
When a heavyweight prize fighter named Killer thinks that Lou is having an affair with his wife, Bud attempts to get Lou trained and fit in a gym.
Episode 18: Public Enemies
Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.