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Amos 'n' Andy: Episode Guide

EPISODE GUIDE:

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  • 1. Season 1, Ep 1: Sapphire's Sister

    The Kingfish tries to get rid of Sapphire's sister by arranging a marriage between her and Andy, then learns she has $10,000 of savings in the bank.

    Aired: 5/14/1953
  • 2. Season 1, Ep 2: Seeing Is Believing

    Sapphire thinks the Kingfish is secretly dating another woman, so she decides to make him jealous by having dinner alone with Andy.

    Aired: 3/5/1953
  • 3. Season 1, Ep 3: Leroy's Suits

    The Kingfish stages a clothing sale at the Lodge using a lieutenant's entire wardrobe.

    Aired: 2/19/1953
  • 4. Season 1, Ep 4: Counterfeiters Rent Basement

    Andy is a hero when he overpowers a gang of counterfeiters and collects a fat reward.

  • 5. Season 1, Ep 5: Kingfish has a Baby

    The Kingfish decides to reform because he thinks he is about to become a father.

  • 6. Season 1, Ep 6: Kingfish's Secretary

    The Kingfish mistakenly signs a letter requesting a mail order bride with a letter requesting a wash woman for the building.

    Aired: 6/19/1952
  • 7. Season 1, Ep 7: Kingfish Gets Drafted

    When the Kingfish gets drafted, his wife and his lodge brothers applaud but soon change their tune when his outfit is to go overseas.

  • 8. Season 1, Ep 8: The Ballet Tickets

    The Kingfish gives Sapphire some stolen ballet tickets which land her in jail. She ends up in jail a second time when the Kingfish gives her a phony five dollar bill.

    Aired: 1/22/1953
  • 9. Season 1, Ep 9: The Boarder

    Sapphire maintains that her boarder, a singer with a large appetite, is a cultural asset, but to the Kingfish he is a gorging freeloader.

    Aired: 9/4/1952
  • 10. Season 1, Ep 10: Arabia

    The Kingfish sets up a phony raffle that forces him to wind up in Arabia drilling for oil, trying to earn enough money to get home.

    Aired: 10/2/1952
  • 11. Season 1, Ep 11: The Race Horse

    The Kingfish gets conned when Andy sells him a broken down race horse.

    Aired: 10/30/1952
  • 12. Season 1, Ep 12: Andy Gets Married

    Double trouble for Andy, he has gotten engaged to two women.

    Aired: 2/5/1953
  • 13. Season 1, Ep 13: The Piggy Bank

    The Kingfish has been stealing money from Sapphire's piggy bank and wins a quiz show jackpot just in time for his and Sapphire's 25th anniversary.

    Aired: 7/10/1952
  • 14. Season 1, Ep 14: Superfine Brush

    The Kingfish pushed by Sapphire to get a job, becomes a door-to-door salesman, persuading Andy to take over at no salary.

    Aired: 4/2/1953
  • 15. Season 1, Ep 15: The Kingfish Teaches Andy to Fly

    The Kingfish teaches Andy to fly, so that he can win back his girl from a motor boat enthusiast.

  • 16. Season 1, Ep 16: The Kingfish Becomes a Press Agent

    The Kingfish takes a job as a press agent in order to make money to pay Andy off and get his mother-in-law's diamond pin back, but things don't work out.

  • 17. Season 1, Ep 17: Hospitalization

    Andy buys hospitalization insurance from the Kingfish and then relaxes in the hospital, turning the Kingfish frantic with bills he can't pay.

    Aired: 6/26/1952
  • 18. Season 1, Ep 18: Sapphire's Mysterious Admirer

    The Kingfish believes that Sapphire is in love with another man and that she and her beau are planning to get rid of him.

  • 19. Season 1, Ep 19: The Adoption

    The Kingfish falls in love with a baby which is up for adoption, but instead is stuck with Horrible Horace, Sapphire's pesty nephew.

    Aired: 6/11/1953
  • 20. Season 1, Ep 20: The Broken Clock

    Andy and the Kingfish accidentally become involved with a top military secret and the FBI when they mistakenly take a new secret altimeter clock for a replacement for their broken one.

    Aired: 8/21/1952
  • 21. Season 1, Ep 21: Mr. Jackson Comes to Town

    The Kingfish goes on a self-improvement course because Sapphire goes overboard over an ex-boyfriend and former Mr. America.

  • 22. Season 1, Ep 22: Cousin Effie's Will

    The Kingfish adopts Andy so that he will become eligible for a $2000 bequest under the terms of Cousin Effie's will.

    Aired: 11/13/1952
  • 23. Season 1, Ep 23: Restitution

    While trying to do a good deed and repay a jeweler for the use of his electricity, the Kingfish becomes a fugitive from justice when he accidentally trips the store's burglar alarm.

    Aired: 11/27/1952
  • 24. Season 1, Ep 24: Andy Falls in Love with an Actress

    Andy, jealous over his girlfriend's amorous scenes in a play, decides to become an actor.

    Aired: 3/19/1953
  • 25. Season 1, Ep 25: Kingfish at the Ballgame

    The Kingfish sells Andy a ring he finds in his crackerjack box before he finds out how valuable the ring really is.

    Aired: 4/16/1953
  • 26. Season 1, Ep 26: Story of the Invisible Glass

    The Kingfish gets into the stock market and sells everyone short, including himself.

  • 27. Season 1, Ep 27: The Kingfish Buys a Chair

    The Kingfish buys an old chair stuffed with money and then, not knowing the money is in the chair, he gives it away.

  • 28. Season 1, Ep 28: Rare Coin (pilot)

    The Kingfish swindles Andy out of a rare coin and Andy swindles it right back by use of a clever trick in a phone booth coin slot.

    Aired: 6/28/1951
  • 29. Season 1, Ep 29: Andy Goes into Business

    Andy goes into business and the Kingfish decides he wants to get in on the deal.

  • 30. Season 1, Ep 30: New Neighbors

    While trying to get rid of neighbors who borrow everything, the Kingfish uses the crying of a baby and a sound effects record, but the plan backfires as the Kingfish is about to be evicted.

  • 31. Season 1, Ep 31: The Lodge Brothers Complain

    The Kingfish tries to snatch a bride away from her wedding because he thinks she is his wife.

  • 32. Season 1, Ep 32: Viva La France

    Andy, Calhoun, and the Kingfish all become engaged to a French girl named Colette Duval who doesn't understand English.

  • 33. Season 1, Ep 33: Income Tax Show

    Andy and the Kingfish are frightened when they have to appear before the Internal Revenue Service. It turns out all they have to do is fill out new forms.

  • 34. Season 1, Ep 34: Vacation Show

    The Kingfish tries to swindle Andy by taking him on a trip through Central Park and pretending it is the entire USA.

  • 35. Season 1, Ep 35: The Light Blue Car

    The Kingfish finds himself accused of robbery when his car is used unknowingly in a holdup.

  • 36. Season 1, Ep 36: The Classified Ad

    Andy puts a wife-seeking ad in the newspaper and gets a good response, but all the applicants need dental work.

  • 37. Season 1, Ep 37: The Society Party

    The Kingfish and Andy try to get their ladies to wear the same fur coat at the same time, to the same party.

  • 38. Season 1, Ep 38: The Convention

    In Chicago, the Kingfish gets a sample of the con game from his wife Sapphire who gets them to turn over their money to her, using a disguise, leaving the boys no money to get home.

  • 39. Season 1, Ep 39: Kingfish's Last Friend

    The Kingfish has swindled too many people and is losing all of his friends so he goes on a reform kick.

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