The Amos 'n Andy Show

- Season 2

(1952)

For the past three years Sapphire has been using a piggy bank to save for a second honeymoon with George in Niagara Falls, and for the past three years George has gradually pilfered away all her savings, replacing the stolen loot with lead washers. With just three days left until the piggy bank is to be broken open, the Kingfish scrambles to replace the dough.

Sapphire agrees to safeguard a teenage girl's diary. After the Kingfish accidentally discovers it and learns what's written in it, he assumes that Sapphire is having an affair with another man.

Andy winds up in traffic court after going though a red traffic signal while he was asleep. The judge finds out his driver's license is dated from 1946 and that Andy failed the eye exam. He said Andy can't drive again until he gets eyeglasses. Of course the Kingfish decides to use this situation to further his own ends.

The lodge gives the Kingfish a clock as a present. Unfortunately the clock doesn't work so he and Andy decide to return it to the factory but things don't go as smoothly as planned.

Sapphire rents a room to an obnoxious boarder. In an attempt to get him to leave Kingfish rents the same room to Andy and Calhoun such that they have to share the room.

A woman thinks the lodge is a matrimonial agency. When Kingfish learns she is looking for a husband he sets her up with Andy. Though Andy agrees to marry her, he can't afford an engagement ring. Kingfish then offers to lend him Sapphire's.

Kingfish concocts a plot to collect a $200 fee by getting Andy to become a welder in Arabia. His plan is to convince him that he is going on an elaborate vacation.

Sapphire insists Kingfish sell a worthless piece of property immediately and Kingfish can only think of one person who'd be dumb enough to taker it off his hands - Andy Brown. Unfortunately for Kingfish, Andy has the last laugh.

The Kingfish cons Andy into buying a broken-down racehorse with the apropos name of "Come Later." When Andy watches the horse during a workout, he realizes that his naivete has caused him to be duped yet again. But all is not lost, as Andy gets an idea how he might turn the tables and recover his investment.

In order to receive his $2,000 share of the will the Kingfish must have a male child so he decides to adopt Andy and try to pull that off.

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.

The Kingfish tries to sell a friend's antique shop so he can earn $250 commission. Naturally this involves his usual schemes and this episode has some classic malapropisms.

Andy, broke as usual, is desperate to earn money so he can give his god-daughter a talking doll for Christmas. He convinces a manager to hire him as a department store Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, Amos explains to Arbadella the true meaning of the "Lord's Prayer".

It's Kingfish's birthday and when Sapphire discovers that her husband has received a birthday card from a secret feminine admirer she goes into a jealous rage. Desperate to keep his wife happy, Kingfish searches for the card sender and, concluding it must have been sent by an old flame, calls on all his old female acquaintances, which just makes the disbelieving Sapphire all the angrier.

Kingfish finds a wallet. The owner tells the police his pocket was picked and that the wallet contained $245 and ballet tickets. The police show up at the ballet and arrest Sapphire and Mama whom Kingfish had given the tickets.

Andy agrees to marry a woman until Amos introduces him to his new neighbor after which Andy tries to break off his relationship with his fiance.

Kingfish and Andy agree to hold a clearance sale on some suits that one of Kingfish's relatives wants to get rid of. Lighnin' writes down the wrong address, though, and the boys get in hot water when the address where they picked up the suits turns out to be the apartment of a police lieutenant.

When circumstantial evidence indicates that George is seeing another woman, Sapphire takes Mama's advice by faking an affair with Andy, in hopes of making George jealous.

Andy meets a pretty girl who is an actress. He, with Kingfish's help, manages to get cast in a play with her-with predictably disastrous results.

After Sapphire gets the Kingfish a brush-selling job, he tricks Andy into doing the work for him, without pay.

A $3,000 ring falls into the box of the Kingfish's Crispy Jacks and leads to no end of trouble.

Feeling he's a failure at life, the Kingfish decides to take a series of aptitude tests to determine what his career should be.

Sapphire's sister, Hortense, moves in, so Kingfish tries to pawn her off on Andy, in order to get her out of the apartment.

Sapphire hires a man to portray her old flame in order to make Kingfish jealous. Kingfish tries everything he can to keep his marriage intact.

Sapphire and the Kingfish want to adopt a child. Kingfish tries to scam the adoption agency into believing he is a man of means.