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ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW, THE - Vacuum Cleaner Salesman

Air Date/Released Tuesday, November 18, 1952
Station/Studio Syndicated / T.C.A.
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello preserved the art of burlesque with their stage personas and virtually perfect timing, in the 1st season of their syndicated sitcom. Bud and Lou basically play themselves as unemployed comics residing in Mr. Fields' boarding house. A&C spend each day avoiding Fields' demand for back rent, while welcoming a cast of regular and guest characters, who join them in a rapid-fire parade of burlesque jokes and routines.

Perennially jobless Bud and Lou go to Mr. Fields' brother's employment agency for a job, and Lou becomes a vacuum cleaner salesman. Lou's salesmanship leaves a lot to be desired, especially when he tries to sell a machine in a house with no electricity. Joe Besser ('Stinky') appears to reprise his classic AFRICA SCREAMS gag of "my room is on fire!"


Cast: Bud Abbott (Himself), Lou Costello (Himself), Sidney Fields (Mr. Fields), Hillary Brooke (Hillary), Gordon Jones (Mike the Cop), Joe Kirk (Mr. Bacciagalupe), Joe Besser (Stinky Davis), Robin Raymond (Woman on bench), Ethelreda Leopold (Blonde housewife), Vera Marshe (Housewife), Bobby Barber (Man on street), Dorothy Ford (Miss Yummy), Sid Fields (Mr. Fields' brother)

Jean Yarbrough (Producer and Director), Sidney Fields (Writer), Pat Costello (Executive Producer)
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