About this season
A pair of friends in Harlem find themselves caught up in a series of misadventures, business schemes, and everyday problems, often relying on their neighbors and community to help them out of trouble.
Episodes (27)
1. Kingfish Gets Drafted
Aired 28 June 1951 • 30 min
When the Kingfish gets drafted, his wife and his lodge brothers applaud but soon change their tune when his outfit is to go overseas.
2. Kingfish's Secretary
Aired 5 July 1951 • 30 min
Sapphire becomes jealous over Kingfish's new lodge hall secretary. The Kingfish mistakenly signs a letter requesting a mail order bride with a letter requesting a wash woman for the building.
3. Young Girl's Mother
Aired 12 July 1951 • 30 min
Andy wants to marry a very young girl until he meets her mother, a formidable woman he jilted many years ago.
4. Rare Coin
Aired 19 September 1951 • 30 min
Pilot episode. The Kingfish swindles Andy out of a rare coin and Andy swindles it right back by use of a clever trick in a phone booth coin slot.
5. Kingfish Has a Baby
Aired 26 July 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish decides to reform because he thinks he is about to become a father.
6. Counterfeiters Rent Basement
Aired 2 August 1951 • 30 min
Andy becomes a hero when he overpowers a gang of counterfeiters and collects a fat reward.
7. Sapphire Disappears
Aired 9 August 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish thinks Sapphire has been murdered when she leaves him in a huff and he can find no trace of her.
8. The Winslow Woman
Aired 16 August 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish wants Andy to marry wealthy Mrs. Winslow, even when the not-so-wealthy woman actually show up.
9. The Gun
Aired 23 August 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish, trying to pawn a gun, is mistaken for a robber.
10. Call Lehigh 4-9900
Aired 30 August 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish accidentally answers a newspaper ad for a lonely hearts club, and when a girl shows up at his office, Andy poses as the Kingfish.
11. Leroy Lends a Hand
Aired 6 September 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish and Andy go into the parking lot business and wind up in the used car business
12. Fur Coat
Aired 13 September 1951 • 30 min
Sapphire is so delighted with her surprise from the Kingfish, a fur coat, that he hasn't the heart to tell her that the coat is not for her.
13. Jewelry Store Robbery
Aired 20 September 1951 • 30 min
Andy and the Kingfish find that a snapshot they took is worth $1000 because it shows a man robbing a store.
14. Kingfish's Last Friend
Aired 27 September 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish has swindled too many people and is losing all of his friends so he goes on a reform kick.
15. Andy Buys a House
Aired 4 October 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish takes a job as a real estate agent and must prove himself by selling a house on condemned land-- he does, to Andy.
16. Amos Helps Out
10.0Aired 11 October 1951 • 30 min
After a domestic fight, the Kingfish writes a fake letter form the license bureau stating that he and Sapphire were never legally married.
17. Getting Mama Married (1)
Aired 18 October 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish's mother-in-law elopes with a conman and a fleecer of widows.
18. Getting Mama Married (2)
Aired 25 October 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish's mother-in-law is so set on marrying a man that even when his wife shows up she still says he is hers.
19. The Happy Stevenses
Aired 1 November 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish and Sapphire imitate participants in a radio show about a happy marriage, in order to change the pattern of their stormy marriage.
20. Traffic Violation
Aired 8 November 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish and Andy, co-owners of a car, compete with each other in the collection of traffic tickets.
21. Quo Vadis
Aired 15 November 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish goes to a lavish dinner party at which he finds, uncomfortably, that Sapphire is a waitress.
22. The Diner
Aired 22 November 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish and Andy buy a diner, which was doing a good business, and run it out of business.
23. The Turkey Dinner
Aired 29 November 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish is conned into buying stolen turkeys from a country bumpkin.
24. Ready Made Family
Aired 6 December 1951 • 30 min
When the Kingfish's Uncle Clarence is coming to visit, the Kingfish must put together a phony family quickly, to protect his uncle's gift of $500, he gave the Kingfish by telling him he has a child.
25. Relatives
Aired 20 December 1951 • 30 min
Clamming that his mother-in-law disturbs his home, the Kingfish takes his problems to family court. Meanwhile, more relatives show up.
26. Andy Gets a Telegram
Aired 27 December 1951 • 30 min
The Kingfish winds up on a cattle boat bound for South America when Sapphire plots to separate him from his worthless friends.
27. Hospitalization
Aired 3 January 1952 • 30 min
Andy buys hospitalization insurance from the Kingfish and then relaxes in the hospital, turning the Kingfish frantic with bills he can't pay.