The Abbott & Costello Cartoon Show, also known as Abbott & Costello, is an American animated comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and RKO General. It first aired in syndication. It ran from 1967 to 1968, airing 39 episodes that spanned one season.
A half-hour show starring the comedy duo, it follows the animated misadventures of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The two were wildly known for their personalities, with Abbott acting as the cunning straight man, and Costello as the innocent, yet bumbling foil to the former.
The series was originally syndicated by Gold Key Entertainment and King World Productions, with the rights later being acquired by Warner Bros. Television Distribution, who currently holds rights to the cartoon.
Production
Development
During production, Bud Abbott, an original actor for the Abbott & Costello series, provided the voice of his animated self in the hopes of getting some more money. By the time the cartoon was produced, Lou Costello had already passed away, so his voice was done by a close friend named Stan Irwin.
Since the actual Abbott was near death during production of the series, Costello was the focus of the cartoons.
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.
Episodes
Title
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Number
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Original air date
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"Cops and Saucers" / "Dog Gone Dog" / "Go' Go' Goliath" / "In the Soup"
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1x01
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September 9, 1967
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"The Cloud Monster" / "The Gravity Grabber" / "There Auto Be a Law" / "Tiny Terror"
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1x02
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September 16, 1967
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"Big Bird Break Out" / "Going Buggy" / "Sahara You?" / "The Vikings"
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1x03
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September 23, 1967
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"Down in the Dumps" / "Eskimo Pie-Eyed" / "Lube-a-Tuba" / "The Forty Thieves"
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1x04
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September 30, 1967
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"Frail Whale" / "Sitting Pity" / "Tooth or Consequences" / "Wizardland"
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1x05
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October 7, 1967
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"Catman on a Hot Tin Roof" / "Elephantasy" / "Shutter Bugged Sea Serpent" / "The Mark of El Zap"
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1x06
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October 14, 1967
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"Kooks and Spooks" / "Mouse Route" / "Stand-In Stand-Off" / "Super Lou"
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1x07
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October 21, 1967
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"Dinosaur Dilemma" / "Frigid Fugitive" / "The Astro Nuttys" / "The Industructible Space Suit"
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1x08
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October 28, 1967
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"Galoots in Armor Suits" / "Mighty Midget Mustang" / "The Bouncing Rubber Man" / "The Purple Baron"
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1x09
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November 4, 1967
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"Blunderland" / "Going to Pot" / "Skyscrapper Napper" / "The Two Musketeers"
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1x10
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November 11, 1967
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"A Creep in the Deep" / "Crying High" / "Germ Squirm" / "Weird Neighbors"
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1x11
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November 18, 1967
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"Lashed but Leashed" / "Pigskin Pickle" / "The Moleman Mine" / "Two on the Isle"
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1x12
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November 25, 1967
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"Space Toy Tyrants" / "The Little Fat Boy Cried Wolf" / "Wacky Wax Work" / "Werewolf Whim-Wham"
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1x13
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December 2, 1967
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"A Goose Misuse" / "Invader Raider" / "Monster Muddled" / "Monsterkeet"
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1x14
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December 9, 1967
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"Going, Going, Gun!" / "Paddle Boat Pirate" / "Road Race Ruckus" / "Who Needs Arrest?"
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1x15
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December 16, 1967
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"Baby Buggy" / "Drumsticks Along the Mohawk" / "Gone Ghosts" / "Hey Abbott!"
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1x16
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December 23, 1967
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"A Car is Born" / "Lumbering Lummoxes" / "Professor Uncle's Ants" / "Teenie Weenie Genie"
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1x17
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December 30, 1967
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"Fish-Hooked" / "High Wire Lion" / "Magic Monster" / "Planet Plant"
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1x18
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January 6, 1968
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"Baby Shoo" / "Marauding Mummy" / "Space Beard" / "The Long, Long Camper"
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1x19
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January 13, 1968
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"Fumbled Fable" / "Phantom of the Hoss Opera" / "Puppet Enemy Number One" / "Rabbit Grabbers"
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1x20
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January 20, 1968
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"Phoney Express" / "The Big Cannon Caper" / "Vacuum Villain" / "Throne of a Loss"
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1x21
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January 27, 1968
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"A Guest in the Nest" / "Concrete Evidence" / "Glass Reunion" / "The Lava Monster"
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1x22
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February 3, 1968
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"Broom Gloom" / "Gadzooka" / "Gone Like the Wind" / "Merry Misfits"
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1x23
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February 10, 1968
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"Fighting the Clock" / "Rescue Miscue" / "Sinister Professor Sinister" / "The Hound Hounders"
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1x24
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February 17, 1968
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"Bully Billy" / "Pigs in a Panic" / "Ship Ahooey" / "Underworld Whirl"
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1x25
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February 24, 1968
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"Dragon Along" / "Mounty-Bounty" / "Password to Panic" / "Super Terror Strikes Again"
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1x26
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March 2, 1968
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"No Place Like Rome" / "Not So Sweet Sioux" / "Texas Jack" / "Follow the Bouncing-Blob"
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1x27
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March 9, 1968
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"Luna Tricks" / "Pearl-Diving Perils" / "Picture Frame-Up" / "The Queen of Diamonds"
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1x28
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March 16, 1968
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"Booty Bounty / Dangerous Buck / G.I. Jokers / Tasmanian Terror"
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1x29
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March 23, 1968
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"Gator Baiter" / "The Fiendish Farmer" / "The Gadget King" / "The Ice-Tronauts"
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1x30
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March 30, 1968
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"Rabbit Rouser" / "Save a Cave" / "Which Witch is Which" / "Wild Man, Wild"
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1x31
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April 6, 1968
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"Doggies by the Dozen" / "Shooting the Works" / "Son of Konk" / "Super Knight"
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1x32
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April 13, 1968
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"Bully for Lou" / "Cherokee Choo Choo" / "Hotel Suite & Sour" / "Rhino Riot"
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1x33
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April 20, 1968
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"Carnival of Menace" / "Shoo-Shoes" / "Teensys Weensys" / "Tragic Magic"
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1x34
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April 27, 1968
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"Get 'Im, Tiger!" / "Hullaba-Lou" / "Mountain Mischief" / "The Drastic Driller"
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1x35
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May 4, 1968
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"Gorilla Thriller" / "The Eighth Dwarf" / "Turkish Daffy" / "Yankee Doodle Dudes"
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1x36
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May 11, 1968
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"Rodeo Rumpus" / "Run of DeMille Pictures" / "Super Car" / "The Sinister Stinger"
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1x37
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May 18, 1968
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"Bad Day at High Noon" / "Magic Mix-Up" / "Shock Treatment" / "Tom All-Thumbs"
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1x38
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May 25, 1968
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"Pinocchio's Double Trouble" / "Private General Nuisance" / "Starlight Starfright" / "Trigger Tricks"
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1x39
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June 1, 1968
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Most online episode guides don't list an episode titled "Desert Danger," which was in fact produced.
Cast
References