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ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW, THE - The Wrestling Match

Air Date/Released Tuesday, January 27, 1953
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.

After another argument between Lou and Stinky, Mike arranges for the two to settle their differences at a charity wrestling match. But Stinky feigns an upset stomach... so his professional wrestler big brother Ivan the Terrible can take his place.


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), Dorothy Granger (Wife), Emory Parnell (Husband), Milt Bronson (Ring announcer), Ben Welden (Restaurant manager), William Newell (Ivan the Terrible), Bobby Barber (Restaurant customer)

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