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Amos 'n' Andy : Season 1
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Air date: 28 Jun '51 - 57 episodesA sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.
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List of Episodes (57)
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Amos 'n' Andy (1951)
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0. Introduction of the Cast
31 May '51Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll introduce the television audience to the Amos n Andy characters
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1. Kingfish Gets Drafted
28 Jun '51The 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.
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2. The Winslow Woman
03 Mar '53Sapphire thinks the Kingfish is secretly dating another woman, so she decides to make him jealous by having dinner alone with Andy.
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3. The Vacation Show
19 Feb '53The Kingfish stages a clothing sale at the Lodge using a lieutenant's entire wardrobe.
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4. The Lodge Brothers Complain
02 Aug '51Andy is a hero when he overpowers a gang of counterfeiters and collects a fat reward.
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5. Kingfish Buys a Chair
26 Jul '51The Kingfish decides to reform because he thinks he is about to become a father.
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6. The New Neighbors
05 Jul '51The Kingfish mistakenly signs a letter requesting a mail order bride with a letter requesting a wash woman for the building.
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7. The Classified Ad
28 Jun '51When the Kingfish gets drafted, his wife and his lodge brothers applaud but soon change their tune when his outfit is to go overseas.
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8. The Society Party
22 Jan '53The 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.
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9. The Gun
23 Aug '51Sapphire maintains that her boarder, a singer with a large appetite, is a cultural asset, but to the Kingfish he is a gorging freeloader.
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10. Viva La France
02 Oct '52The 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.
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11. The Convention
30 Oct '52The Kingfish gets conned when Andy sells him a broken down race horse.
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12. The Girl Upstairs
05 Feb '53Double trouble for Andy, he has gotten engaged to two women.
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13. Kingfish Goes to Work
10 Jul '52The 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.
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14. The Engagement Ring
02 Apr '53The Kingfish pushed by Sapphire to get a job, becomes a door-to-door salesman, persuading Andy to take over at no salary.
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15. The Eyeglass
01 Jan '55The Kingfish teaches Andy to fly, so that he can win back his girl from a motor boat enthusiast.
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16. Mr. Jackson Comes to Town
01 Jan '55The Kingfish takes a job as a press agent in order to make money to pay Andy off and get his mother-in-law's diamond pin back, but things don't work out.
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17. Kingfish's Last Friend
26 Jun '52Andy buys hospitalization insurance from the Kingfish and then relaxes in the hospital, turning the Kingfish frantic with bills he can't pay.
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18. Counterfeiters Rent Basement
24 Jul '52The Kingfish believes that Sapphire is in love with another man and that she and her beau are planning to get rid of him.
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19. Kingfish Has a Baby
The Kingfish falls in love with a baby which is up for adoption, but instead is stuck with Horrible Horace, Sapphire's pesty nephew.
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20. Young Girl's Mother
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.
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21. Andy Buys a House
The Kingfish goes on a self-improvement course because Sapphire goes overboard over an ex-boyfriend and former Mr. America.
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22. The Turkey Dinner
22 Nov '51The Kingfish adopts Andy so that he will become eligible for a $2000 bequest under the terms of Cousin Effie's will.
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23. The Diner
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.
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24. The Chinchilla Business
19 Mar '53Andy, jealous over his girlfriend's amorous scenes in a play, decides to become an actor.
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