Theater of the Mind
Bud Abbott
Cast
140 episodes in 6 shows · 1941–1949
Radio Hall of Fame inductee (as Abbott and Costello).
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The Abbott and Costello Show132 · Cast
About The Abbott and Costello Show
1942
1943
- Hunting Guide with Claire Trevor
- Guest Lana Turner
- Nylon Stockings with Lucille Ball
- Costello's Pet Turkey with Jane Wyman
- Guest: Arthur Treacher
- The Wild West with Lynn Bari
- The Lawyer with Bert Gordon
1944
- Guest: Judy Canova
- Guest: Peter Lorre
- Football Game with Harold Peary
- Guest: Janet Blair
- Guest: Charles Laughton
- Making a Movie with Dorothy Lamour
- Running a Newspaper with Hedda Hopper
- Missing Script with Blondie and Dagwood
- At the Circus
- Guest: Linda Darnell
- Date with Connie Haines
- Job at a Department Store with Claire Trevor
- Costello Buys Gifts for Cast
- Investment Advice
- Investing in a Gold Mine
- Lou Goes to Jail
- Matrimonial Agency
- Mortimers Pet Shop
- Lou's Race Horse Peanut Butter
- Return to P.S. 15
- Formal Thanksgiving Dinner
- The Bank Robbery
- Visit to Tin Pan Alley
- Christmas Shopping for Lou's Girlfriend
- Christmas Party
1945
- Lou's House Needs Another Bathtub
- Hertz-You-Drive
- Lou Joins the Merchant Marine
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Guest: Frank Sinatra
- Basic Training
- Trying to Hire the Andrews Sisters
- Charm School
- Making a Movie with the Andrews Sisters
- Spanish Acting School
- Costello Gets a Tattoo
- Costello's Fathers Day Gift
- Return to Paterson
- Lou Promises His Girlfriend a Job
- Latin Party
- Opening a Gas Station
- Lou the Fireman
- Melonhead's Department Store
- Lou's Christmas Party
- Costello's Beauty Shop
1946
- Looking for an Apartment
- Costello Looking for a Leading Lady for His New Play
- Lou Discovers Uranium
- Lou Has to Pay Income Tax
- Lou's Sister Is Getting Married
- Lou Is Working in the Garden
- Pet Shop
- The Sheriff of North Hollywood
- Napoleon and Josephine
- Lou Wants to Join the Circus
- Costello Runs for Mayor
- Preparing for Elsa Maxwell's Party
- Bud and Lou Need Some Dough
- Abbott's Big Date
- Incorrigible
- Lou Is Hallucinating
- Lion Hunting Trip
- Costello the Air Hero
1947
- From New York City Again
- Costello Buys a Boat
- Ski Jump
- Driving Lessons with Marilyn Maxwell
- Talking About Paying Income Tax
- Lou Goes to the Racetrack to Lose Money
- Stock Market
- Nuts and Bolts
- Costello Is Invited to Join the Yankees
- Lou Builds a House
- Night in Haunted House
- Lou Wants to Marry Marilyn
- Lou Wants to Open a Bank Account
- Christmas Program
- New Year's Eve
1948
- Lou Wants to Be an Actor
- Lou Inherits Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars
- Guest: Erskine Johnson
- Lou Inherits the Largest Diamond in the World
- The Boys Buy a Ranch
- Abbott and Costello Make a Picture
- Lou Is Not Feeling Well
- Bud and Lou Plan to Go to France
- Opening a Marriage Bureau
- Costello Looking for a Job
- The New Sheriff with Bela Lugosi
- Bud and Lou Get the Ratings of Their Show
- Costello Joins the Foreign Legion
- Guest: Lon Chaney Jr.
- Guest: Benny Rubin
- Lou Learns to Swim
- Lou Gets a Job Offer from the U.N.
- The Fish Market Murder
- Sam Shovel: Lifebuoy Kills B.O.
- Sam Shovel: Murder in the Butcher Shop
- Sam Shovel: Tony's Home Permanent (1948)
- Sam Shovel: Case of the Grocer Who Fell in Wet Cement
- Sam Shovel: Sorry Wrong Rhumba
- Sam Shovel: Case of the Russian Diplomat
- Thanksgiving Show
- Sam Shovel: Case of the Curbstone Murder
- Sam Shovel: He Died with His Beauts on
- Sam Shovel: It Was Time for a Change
- Sam Shovel: I'm All Yours in Buttons and Bows
- Sam Shovel: The Murder at the Radio Quiz Show
1949
- Sam Shovel: She Rubbed Him Out
- Sam Shovel: She Was on Her Last Lap
- Sam Shovel: General Custer's Last Hamburger Stand
- Sam Shovel: He Committed Chop Sueyside
- Sam Shovel: He Lost His Aunt's Pay
- Sam Shovel: Taboo or Not Taboo
- Sam Shovel: Strolling Through the Perk One Day
- Sam Shovel: Caught with His Prints Down
- Sam Shovel: She Took Off Too Much for Entertainment
- Sam Shovel: It Was His First Square Meal
- Sam Shovel: I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- Sam Shovel: There's Good Booze Tonight
- Sam Shovel: He Was a Short Order Cook
- Sam Shovel: Tony's Home Permanent (1949)
- Sam Shovel: Dust Be My Destiny
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