Overview of 'Amos 'n' Andy' Season 1

Episode 0 - Introduction of the Cast

Release Date: 1951-05-31

Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll introduce the television audience to the Amos n Andy characters

Episode 1 - Kingfish Gets Drafted

Release Date: 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.

Episode 2 - Kingfish's Secretary

Release Date: 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.

Episode 3 - Young Girl's Mother

Release Date: 1951-07-12

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

Episode 4 - Rare Coin

Release Date: 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.

Episode 5 - Kingfish Has a Baby

Release Date: 1951-07-26

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

Episode 6 - Counterfeiters Rent Basement

Release Date: 1951-08-02

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

Episode 7 - Sapphire Disappears

Release Date: 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.

Episode 8 - The Winslow Woman

Release Date: 1951-08-16

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

Episode 9 - The Gun

Release Date: 1951-08-23

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

Episode 10 - Call Lehigh 4-9900

Release Date: 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.

Episode 11 - Leroy Lends a Hand

Release Date: 1951-09-06

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

Episode 12 - Fur Coat

Release Date: 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.

Episode 13 - Jewelry Store Robbery

Release Date: 1951-09-20

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

Episode 14 - Kingfish's Last Friend

Release Date: 1951-09-27

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

Episode 15 - Andy Buys a House

Release Date: 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.

Episode 16 - Amos Helps Out

Release Date: 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.

Episode 17 - Getting Mama Married (1)

Release Date: 1951-10-18

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

Episode 18 - Getting Mama Married (2)

Release Date: 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.

Episode 19 - The Happy Stevenses

Release Date: 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.

Episode 20 - Traffic Violation

Release Date: 1951-11-08

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

Episode 21 - Quo Vadis

Release Date: 1951-11-15

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

Episode 22 - The Diner

Release Date: 1951-11-22

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

Episode 23 - The Turkey Dinner

Release Date: 1951-11-29

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

Episode 24 - Ready Made Family

Release Date: 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.

Episode 25 - Relatives

Release Date: 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.

Episode 26 - Andy Gets a Telegram

Release Date: 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.

Episode 27 - Hospitalization

Release Date: 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.

Episode 28 - The Insurance Policy

Release Date: 1951-07-19

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.

Episode 29 - Kingfish Gets Amnesia

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

Episode 30 - The Girl at the Station

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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.

Episode 31 - Kingfish Teaches Andy to Fly

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

Episode 32 - Kingfish Becomes a Press Agent

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

Episode 33 - Sapphire Disappears

Release Date: 1952-02-07

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.

Episode 34 - The Meal Ticket

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

Episode 35 - Call Lehigh 4-9900

Release Date: 1952-02-21

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

Episode 36 - Leroy Lends a Hand

Release Date: 1952-02-28

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

Episode 37 - The Fur Coat

Release Date: 1952-03-06

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

Episode 38 - The Jewelry Store Robbery

Release Date: 1952-03-13

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.