Episode
The Abbott and Costello Show: Car Trouble
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Abbott and Costello Show
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1954-01-30
Episode context
Car Trouble is Episode 13 in Season 2 of The Abbott and Costello Show. It aired on 1954-01-30.
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Episode 12: Efficiency Experts
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.
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.
More episodes from this season
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 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 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 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 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 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 8: South of Dixie
Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
Episode 18: Public Enemies
Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.
Episode 7: Cheap Skates
Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.
Episode 19: Bank Holdup
Bud and Lou unwittingly take jobs as armed bodyguards for a couple of hoodlums and assist in a bank robbery. They use their share of money to pay their rent, and later try to get it back from Mr. Fields' safe.