Episode
The Abbott and Costello Show: Life Insurance
Overview
Mr. Fields takes out an insurance policy on Lou. Later, Bud takes Lou on a hunting trip, and Lou suspects Bud and Mr. Fields have plotted to kill him for the insurance money.
Details
- Series
- The Abbott and Costello Show
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1953-11-28
Episode context
Life Insurance is Episode 4 in Season 2 of The Abbott and Costello Show. It aired on 1953-11-28.
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Episode 3: In Society
A wealthy society matron pays Bud to attend a formal reception and impersonate the Duke of Gluten. Lou comes along pretending to be his cousin, the Earl of Waldo.
Episode 5: Pest Exterminators
Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."
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Episode 2: Uncle Bozzo's Visit
Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.
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 1: The Paper Hangers
To pay back rent, Bud and Lou attempt to wallpaper an apartment. Later, as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.
Episode 7: Cheap Skates
Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.
Episode 8: South of Dixie
Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
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 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 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 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 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.