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$1,000 TV Prize

Comedy

26

Dec 11, 1953

While trying to repair Mr. Fields' television set, Lou answers a phone call from the “Money to Burn” quiz show and correctly answers the $1,000 question.

Full Episodes

Season 2, 26 episodes

The Paper Hangers,

While attempting to free it from a tight space, the boys damage Mrs. Bronson's car.

26m Oct 9, 1953

Uncle Bozzo's Visit,

Lou's unemployed, opera singing Uncle Bozzo arrives from Italy and wreaks havoc with his booming voice. After a run in with Mike the Cop, the boys and Bozzo are arrested. While in jail, a fellow prisoner recruits them to assist in his escape.

26m Oct 16, 1953

Mrs. Olga Van Goo, a wealthy society woman, hires Bud and Lou to impersonate the Duke of Gluten and the Earl of Waldo at her formal reception. But a series of etiquette miscues leads to a food-flinging finale.

26m Oct 23, 1953

Life Insurance,

Mr. Fields wants security for the back rent the boys' owe him, so he and Bud take out a life insurance policy on Lou that names the landlord as beneficiary.

26m Oct 30, 1953

Pest Exterminators,

The boys are working as pest exterminators. While on a job at a psychiatrist's office, they misunderstand a phone call from a Mrs. Featherton, who asks them to come to her house to “take care of her aunts” who are “out of control.”

26m Nov 6, 1953

Heavyweight prizefighter Killer King moves into the rooming house. Killer is insanely jealous over his knockout wife.

25m Nov 13, 1953

Bud and Lou accidentally purchase a crate of roller skates at an auction. Unbeknownst to them, the skates have stolen diamonds hidden inside the wheels, and the smugglers behind the scam move into their rooming house to recover the jewels.

26m Nov 20, 1953

South of Dixie,

Lou is smitten by a cute new neighbor. Hearing her cries for help, Lou bursts into her apartment and into a rehearsal for a Civil War melodrama. He is so magnificent in his rescue effort that she lands him a role in the play.

26m Nov 27, 1953

From Bed to Worse,

While working in a garden supply store, Bud and Lou learn that a civic group is offering a cash prize for the best backyard garden. The boys decide to enter the competition, but provoke a feud with a neighbor who has also entered the contest.

26m Dec 4, 1953

$1,000 TV Prize,

While trying to repair Mr. Fields' television set, Lou answers a phone call from the “Money to Burn” quiz show and correctly answers the $1,000 question.

26m Dec 11, 1953

Lou plans to marry Edna, his lonely-hearts penpal, but Bud wants to break up the romance. He convinces Lou that he has amnesia and has a friend pose as Edna to make his life miserable.

26m Dec 18, 1953

Efficiency Experts,

Somehow, the boys have landed jobs as efficiency experts. They are assigned to restrain their client's spoiled daughters from spending money.

26m Dec 25, 1953

Lou wins an Edam automobile from Jeepers Creepers Canned Baby Food, but Bud sells it and uses the cash for a trip to Flint, Michigan to buy another car. On their trip they encounter Mike the Cop's twin brother, some hoboes, and an irate sheriff.

26m Jan 1, 1954

The boys get a letter from Lou's grandfather, who plans to visit and give Lou $10,000 if he is married.

26m Jan 8, 1954

Uncle From New Jersey,

After Fields locks the boys out of their apartment, Bud hatches a plan to convince the greedy landlord that Lou is the sole heir to the fortune of his rich Uncle Ruppert.

26m Jan 15, 1954

After Lou receives his diploma and private eye gear from the Watchdog Correspondence School, he and Bud help a young girl locate $50,000 in bonds hidden in a spooky mansion that belonged to her eccentric uncle.

26m Jan 22, 1954

The Tax Return,

The IRS accidentally sends Lou a refund for $1 million. After he cashes the check, he is followed home by crooks. Meanwhile, Mr. Fields begins to suspect that Bud and Lou are counterfeiters.

26m Jan 29, 1954

Public Enemies,

When a newspaper runs a story about safecracker “Dapper Dan” and accidentally publishes Lou's photograph, gangster who have just moved into the rooming house think he's a fellow crook, and force him to join them in a warehouse robbery.

26m Feb 5, 1954

Bud and Lou are hired as armed guards and unwittingly assist in a bank robbery. They pay rent with their cut of the money, and then attempt to recover the stolen cash from Mr. Fields' safe.

26m Feb 12, 1954

When Mr. Fields is threatened with a breach of promise lawsuit, the boys come to his aid. With Bud acting as his chauffer, Lou poses as a Texas oil tycoon in an attempt to court and discredit the gold digger.

26m Feb 19, 1954

A beautiful next-door neighbor wants to rid herself of her mobster boyfriend so she can marry another man. She hatches a plan to make the gangster think that Lou is her lover so that he will kill Lou and go to jail.

26m Feb 26, 1954

Honeymoon House,

With the aid of Bud and Mr. Fields, Lou builds a prefabricated house for his fiancée, Sally. But the new construction is sabotaged by Sally's former boyfriend, and when her parents arrive to inspect the place, they are nearly killed.

26m Mar 5, 1954

Fencing Master,

Bud volunteers Lou as a human guinea pig in a zany experiment performed by a mad scientist, Dr. Bluzak. Lou thinks he's indestructible until a pompous French fencing master challenges him to a duel.

26m Mar 12, 1954

Beauty Contest Story,

Mr. Fields recruits Bud and Lou to judge the “Miss Mud Turtle” beauty pageant for his lodge, and expects the boys to pick his niece as the winner. But then a tough thug pressures them to crown his girlfriend.

26m Mar 19, 1954

After a fruitless day trying to sell “No Peddlers Allowed” signs, two men approach Bud and Lou.

26m Mar 26, 1954

After helping Mrs. Bronson stage an amateur show, Bud is exhausted and asks Lou to give him a relaxing rubdown by following the instructions of a radio masseuse.

26m Apr 2, 1954