The Abbott and Costello Show (1952)

Directed by

Jean Yarbrough

Genre

sitcom

Country

United States

Length

2 seasons, 52 episodes

Rated

TV-G

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello perform their classic comedy routines and get into silly situations. The show focuses on being funny rather than teaching any lessons.

comedicfast-pacedplayfullightheartedslapsticknostalgicwittyzany

What happens

The Abbott and Costello Show is an American television sitcom starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The program premiered in syndication in the fall of 1952 and ran two seasons to the spring of 1954. Each season ran 26 episodes. The series is considered to be among the most influential comedy programs in history. In 1998, Entertainment Weekly praised the series as one of the "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". In 2007, Time magazine selected it for its "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME". Jerry Seinfeld has declared that The Abbott and Costello Show, with its overriding emphasis upon funny situations rather than life lessons, was the inspiration for his own long-running sitcom, Seinfeld. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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