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The comedic duo engages in humorous scenarios.
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.
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Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.
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Episode 1
To pay back rent, Bud and Lou attempt to wallpaper an apartment. Later, as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde Bruckman, Sid FieldsGuest stars Robert J. Wilke, John Daheim, Henry Kulky, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Sara Haden, Jane Frazee, Rex Lease
Episode 2
Lou's eccentric opera singing uncle comes to stay with the boys for a couple of months.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Pat Flaherty, G. Pat Collins, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Fortunio Bonanova, Milt Bronson, Max Wagner, Carl Sklover
Episode 3
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Hillary Brooke, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Isabel Randolph, Alix Talton, Sheila Bromley, Tristram Coffin, Jack Rice
Episode 4
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde Bruckman, Sid FieldsGuest stars Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Murray Leonard, Dorothy Granger, Bobby Barber, Milt Bronson, Frank O'Connor, Minerva Urecal
Episode 5
Bud and Lou are pest exterminators mistaken for psychiatrists when they attend to Mrs. Featherton's "aunts."
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Bobby Barber, Helene Millard, Joan Shawlee, Dorothy Vaughan, Florence Auer, Creighton Hale
Episode 6
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Mary Beth Hughes, Max Baer, Lyle Talbot, Lou Nova, Tom Kennedy
Episode 7
Bud and Lou accidentally buy a crate of roller-skates, not knowing that they have stolen diamonds hidden inside.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Bobby Barber, Teddy Infuhr, Phyllis Coates, Paul Fix, Russell Custer, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Milt Bronson
Episode 8
Lou accidentally lands himself and Bud roles in a Civil War melodrama.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Dick Gordon, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Jean Porter, Glenn Langan, Bobby Barber
Episode 9
Bud and Lou attempt to plant a backyard garden in order to win a cash prize offered by a civic group.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Dick Wessel, Joe Devlin, Sid Fields, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Delaney
Episode 10
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Ralph Sanford, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Ray Walker, Milt Bronson
Episode 11
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Paul Bryar, James Carlisle, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Adele Jergens, Charles Cane, Kathryn Sheldon, Jack Mulhall
Episode 12
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Jean Willes, Lucille Barkley, Theodore von Eltz, Herbert Heyes, Lillian Bronson, Frank J. Scannell, Bobby Barber, Bud Wolfe
Episode 13
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Emory Parnell, Percy Helton, Charles Williams, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Horace Murphy, Syd Saylor, Ted Stanhope
Episode 14
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Sid Fields, June Vincent, Tracey Roberts, Claudia Barrett
Episode 15
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Tim Ryan, Tom Keene
Episode 16
After receiving his private eye diploma from the Watchdog Correspondence School, Lou helps a friend locate some valuable bonds in a haunted house.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Keith Richards, Frank Richards, Lou Krugman, Sid Fields, Lyn Thomas, Bobby Barber
Episode 17
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Thurston Hall, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Benny Burt, Al Hill, Ray Walker
Episode 18
Lou is mistaken for a crook named Dapper Dan and is forced to take part in a robbery.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Joe Sawyer, Veda Ann Borg, Claire Carleton, Bobby Barber, Michael Ross, Robert Bice
Episode 19
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.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Douglas Fowley, Paul Bryar, Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, Edgar Dearing, Milt Bronson, Emmett Vogan
Episode 20
Bud and Lou help Mr. Fields, who is being threatened with a lawsuit. Lou poses as a Texas millionaire to help discredit the complainant.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Gordon Jones, Sid Fields, William Fawcett, Bess Flowers, Grace Hayle, Harold Miller
Episode 21
Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Sid Fields, Gloria Henry, Ted Hecht, Ray Montgomery, Hank Patterson, Bobby Barber
Episode 22
When Bud and Mr. Fields help Lou put together a prefab house in order to impress his fiancée and her parents, a jealous former boyfriend sabotages their work.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Sid Fields, Renie Riano, George Chandler, Tommy Farrell, Karen Sharpe
Episode 23
A mad scientist's experiment convinces Lou that he is indestructible.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Sid Fields, Fortunio Bonanova, Byron Foulger, Robert Karnes, Benny Burt
Episode 24
When Bud and Lou judge a beauty contest, pressure is applied to sway their votes.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Jack TownleyGuest stars Dick Wessel, Sid Fields, Claudia Barrett, James Flavin, Sandra Spence, Charles Halton, Gloria Pall
Episode 25
Bud and Lou want to take two sisters on a date but their father convinces the boys to put an antenna on his roof instead.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Clyde BruckmanGuest stars Charlie Hall, Sid Fields, Walter Catlett, Noreen Nash, Gloria Saunders, Frank Marlowe, Ruth Lee, John Beradino
Episode 26
Lou tries to give Bud a rubdown following instructions from a radio show, but he's tuned into a program explaining how to paint a car at home.
Directed by Jean YarbroughWritten by Lou Costello, Sid FieldsGuest stars Sid Fields, Bobby Barber, Joe Devlin, Renie Riano
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