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Amos 'n' Andy
1951 - 1953 7.5 (8 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Comedy
Networks
CBS
Created By
Charles J. Correll
Freeman F. Gosden

Amos 'n' Andy

Overview

A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1951)

No overview available.

27 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Kingfish Gets Drafted
1951-06-28

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Kingfish's Secretary
1951-07-05

Sapphire becomes jealous over Kingfish's new lodge hall secretary. The Kingfish mistakenly signs a letter requesting a mail order bride with a letter requesting a wash woman for the building.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Young Girl's Mother
1951-07-12

Andy wants to marry a very young girl until he meets her mother, a formidable woman he jilted many years ago.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Rare Coin
1951-09-19

Pilot episode. 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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Kingfish Has a Baby
1951-07-26

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Counterfeiters Rent Basement
1951-08-02

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Sapphire Disappears
1951-08-09

The Kingfish thinks Sapphire has been murdered when she leaves him in a huff and he can find no trace of her.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Winslow Woman
1951-08-16

The Kingfish wants Andy to marry wealthy Mrs. Winslow, even when the not-so-wealthy woman actually show up.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Gun
1951-08-23

The Kingfish, trying to pawn a gun, is mistaken for a robber.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Call Lehigh 4-9900
1951-08-30

The Kingfish accidentally answers a newspaper ad for a lonely hearts club, and when a girl shows up at his office, Andy poses as the Kingfish.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Leroy Lends a Hand
1951-09-06

The Kingfish and Andy go into the parking lot business and wind up in the used car business

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Fur Coat
1951-09-13

Sapphire is so delighted with her surprise from the Kingfish, a fur coat, that he hasn't the heart to tell her that the coat is not for her.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Jewelry Store Robbery
1951-09-20

Andy and the Kingfish find that a snapshot they took is worth $1000 because it shows a man robbing a store.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Kingfish's Last Friend
1951-09-27

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Andy Buys a House
1951-10-04

The Kingfish takes a job as a real estate agent and must prove himself by selling a house on condemned land-- he does, to Andy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Amos Helps Out
1951-10-11

After a domestic fight, the Kingfish writes a fake letter form the license bureau stating that he and Sapphire were never legally married.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Getting Mama Married (1)
1951-10-18

The Kingfish's mother-in-law elopes with a conman and a fleecer of widows.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Getting Mama Married (2)
1951-10-25

The Kingfish's mother-in-law is so set on marrying a man that even when his wife shows up she still says he is hers.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: The Happy Stevenses
1951-11-01

The Kingfish and Sapphire imitate participants in a radio show about a happy marriage, in order to change the pattern of their stormy marriage.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Traffic Violation
1951-11-08

The Kingfish and Andy, co-owners of a car, compete with each other in the collection of traffic tickets.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Quo Vadis
1951-11-15

The Kingfish goes to a lavish dinner party at which he finds, uncomfortably, that Sapphire is a waitress.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The Diner
1951-11-22

The Kingfish and Andy buy a diner, which was doing a good business, and run it out of business.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: The Turkey Dinner
1951-11-29

The Kingfish is conned into buying stolen turkeys from a country bumpkin.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Ready Made Family
1951-12-06

When the Kingfish's Uncle Clarence is coming to visit, the Kingfish must put together a phony family quickly, to protect his uncle's gift of $500, he gave the Kingfish by telling him he has a child.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Relatives
1951-12-20

Clamming that his mother-in-law disturbs his home, the Kingfish takes his problems to family court. Meanwhile, more relatives show up.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Andy Gets a Telegram
1951-12-27

The Kingfish winds up on a cattle boat bound for South America when Sapphire plots to separate him from his worthless friends.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: Hospitalization
1952-01-03

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

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1952)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Piggy Bank
1952-07-10

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Sapphire's Mysterious Admirer
1952-07-24

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Eyeglasses
1952-08-07

The Kingfish devises a plot to make Andy fail his road test so that he can buy his car cheaply.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Broken Clock
1952-08-21

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: The Boarder
1952-09-04

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Engagement Ring
1952-09-18

The Kingfish plays matchmaker and arranges a match between Andy and an older woman, in the hope of collecting a services rendered fee.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Arabia
1952-10-02

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Kingfish Sells a Lot
1952-10-16

The Kingfish decides to dispose of a worthless piece of property to Andy, but it's Andy who gets the last laugh.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Race Horse
1952-10-30

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Cousin Effie's Will
1952-11-13

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Restitution
1952-11-27

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Antique Shop
1952-12-11

The Kingfish outfoxes himself when he sends all his lodge brothers into an antique shop to convince his cousin Leo to buy it, but with all those customers the store owner won't sell.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: The Christmas Story
1952-12-25

Andy is working very hard to earn enough money to buy a doll for his godchild.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Birthday Card
1953-01-08

Sapphire gives the Kingfish the third degree and wants to know why he received a birthday card signed Sweetheart.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: The Ballet Tickets
1953-01-22

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Andy Gets Married
1953-02-05

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Leroy's Suits
1953-02-19

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Seeing Is Believing
1953-03-05

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Andy Falls in Love with an Actress
1953-03-19

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Superfine Brush
1953-04-02

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Kingfish at the Ballgame
1953-04-16

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The Kingfish Finds His Future
1953-04-30

Feeling he's a failure at life, the Kingfish decides to take a series of aptitude tests to determine what his career should be.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Sapphire's Sister
1953-05-14

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Mr. Jackson Comes to Town
1953-05-28

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: The Adoption
1953-06-11

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

Runtime: 30 min

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