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- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloPeggy RyanTwo bumblers become caretakers at an all-girls' college. During their misadventures, the duo raise money to free the school from its traditionally-minded landlord.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloFrances RaffertyWhen two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloAlan CurtisWhen their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloMarjorie ReynoldsA psychiatrist stays in a mansion haunted by prankish ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloBrenda JoyceLou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like The Time of Their Lives (1946), in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloTom BrownTwo ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
- DirectorCharles NicholsWilfred JacksonStarsLeone Le DouxJames MacDonaldMickey's evening started slow and lazy, but things get moving in a hurry when Minnie calls from outside the big dance, wondering why he's late for their date.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloMarjorie MainChester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana en route to California. During the stopover, notorious criminal Fred Hawkins is murdered and the two are charged with the crime. They are quickly tried, convicted, and sentenced to die by hanging. The head of the local citizens' committee, Jim Simpson (William Ching), recalls a law whereby the survivor of a gun duel must take responsibility for the deceased's debts and family. The law spares the two from execution, but Chester is now responsible for the widow Hawkins (Marjorie Main) and her seven children. They go to her farm, where she works Chester from dawn to dusk, and at night he must work at the saloon to repay Hawkins' debt to its owner, Jake Frame (Gordon Jones). Her plan is to wear Chester down until he agrees to marry her. Chester quickly learns that no one will harm him, for fear that they will need to support Mrs. Hawkins and her family. Simpson makes Chester the sheriff hoping that fear of him will help clean up the lawless town. For protection, Chester carries around a photograph of Mrs. Hawkins and her kids. The approach works for a while, and Chester is heralded as a hero. Meanwhile, Duke still plans to go to California and tries to get Judge Benbow (George Cleveland) to marry Mrs. Hawkins to free him and Chester from their obligations. He starts a rumor that Mrs. Hawkins is about to become rich once the railroad buys her land to lay tracks. The rumor spreads quickly, and everyone tries to kill Chester hoping to marry Mrs. Hawkins(and share, or manage, her expected fortune). Frame eventually confesses to Hawkins' murder; Duke and Chester are cleared and allowed to leave town, but not before they admit that they fabricated the railroad rumor. Benbow still wants to marry Mrs. Hawkins, and she agrees. She then announces that the railroad actually did offer her substantial money, and she is now wealthy.
- DirectorCharles NicholsStarsPinto ColvigJames MacDonaldMickey is running a banana plantation. Pluto is frightened by Mickey's boomerang and gets tangled up with it. Meanwhile, Mickey has found an ostrich egg whose owner isn't at all happy that Mickey wants to take it.
- DirectorCharles NicholsStarsW.F. BanesPinto ColvigJames MacDonaldMickey accidentally takes a seal home, after it sneaks into his picnic basket. When Mickey takes a bath, the seal is discovered and Mickey returns him to the park. Later, Mickey and Pluto discover that the bathroom is filled with seals.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloJoseph CalleiaTwo window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money.
- DirectorCharles BartonWalter LantzStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloLon Chaney Jr.The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
- DirectorPaul NickellStarsMarie PowersLois HuntLeo ColemanMadame Flora conducts bogus seances to bilk grieving parents, but during one seance she feels hands around her neck and panics.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloVirginia GreyTwo con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloClyde BeattyTwo booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloBoris KarloffTwo employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.
- DirectorWalter HartStarsGlenda FarrellJoshua ShelleyEdward AndrewsA naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer and meets the girl of his dreams.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsGlenn StrangeRanger Reid, the sole surviving Texas Ranger of a murderous ambush, becomes the great masked hero with his companion, Tonto. Note: We do not know the first name of Ranger Reid. It is never said during the entire series.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsGlenn StrangeThe Lone Ranger still on the trail of Butch Cavendish and his gang sends Tonto to the town of Colby to organize a posse with the deputy sheriff. Tonto receives no help and the suspicion is a number of people in town are working for Cavandish. The Lone Ranger must launch a daring plan to foil the Cavendish gang's plan to take over the town of Colby.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsGlenn StrangeThe origin of the Lone Ranger's horse Silver and his use of silver bullets is explained.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJackie GleasonRosemary DeCampGloria WintersRiley's insistence that Babs has nothing to do with Simon comes between him and Babs. He forbids her to see him, then when she sneaks around behind his back, he chases Simon off. Both his wife and daughter are very upset with him.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsEmmett LynnBob Kittredge is being forced by Red Devers to sell the ranch he inherited from his father. The Lone Ranger and Tonto, aided by Banty Bishop and the old ranch hands rescue Kittredge, and the ranch (and jobs of the ranch hands) are restored.
- DirectorGeorge CahanStarsLarry FineMoe HowardShemp HowardTelevision pilot for a Three Stooges situation comedy, where the Stooges are painters and paperhangers and completely wreck a hapless couple's home.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsHarry LauterThe Vance family settles right in the middle of a war between the Madden gang and local ranches. Despite the hostility to Fred Vance over his past, he decides he will not be run off this parcel of land. The Lone Ranger believes in Fred's innocence, and asks him to help stop the ranchers riding into an ambush and then set a counter trap for the gang after rescuing the son of one of the ranchers being held hostage.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJackie GleasonRosemary DeCampLanny ReesRiley and his neighbor Gillis debate which of their sons has the most talent after learning of a special father-son meeting at the local high school. To compete against Gillis' boastful claims, Riley needs to find Junior's talent so he can aid the boy in becoming successful. At the meeting Gillis give an impassioned speech about the abilities of his boy. Riley senses he is going to be made to look a fool, till an unlikely accident shows his son not only to be talented but also a hero.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsLeonard PennA promoter wants to purchase the famous war horse 'Black Cloud' owned by the Chief Lame Bear. Instead of purchasing the horse the people he employs steal the animal instead, taking Lame Bear's son as hostage in the process. After the capture of Tonto, the Lone Ranger needs to use all his diplomacy and cunning as a law enforcer to stop out right war between Lame Bear's tribe and the US cavalry.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsSheila RyanPete and Pedro don't like working, until the Lone Ranger persuades them to help an attractive young woman save her ranch.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJackie GleasonRosemary DeCampJohn BrownPeg becomes angry when she hears Riley has bought a divers helmet to go with a colony of bees he has also purchased. A friend suggest Peg may be suffering a nervous condition and Riley has to finds ways to help her relax. Peg sees Riley's behavior in a similar light. Both begin to display increasingly erratic behavior. Finally a doctor is called and has decide who really needs the help
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsGene RothThe Indian agent and his henchmen threaten to kill Tonto and his old friend Chief Swift Eagle.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsRay BennettA murder is pinned on two cowboys who strike it rich, until the Lone Ranger traps the real killer.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJackie GleasonRosemary DeCampGloria WintersBab's is complaining she needs a new coat. This causes Riley to begin wonder about his lack of progress at the plant and his abilities to provide for his family . At the plant Riley miss understands a message from the management and thinks he's been given a big promotion. When he realizes the mistake he doesn't know how to tell his family
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsJerry SheldonThe Lone Ranger and Tonto aid a short rancher who is so embarrassed by his lack of height he resorts to specially made platform shoes to add inches to his stature.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsJames HickmanA tenderfoot stage coach driver is killed then one of his murderers takes his place driving the coach. The Lone Ranger and Tonto come across the scene and realize the boy is still alive and arrange for medical care while covering up the boy is still alive. The Lone Ranger then goes on a quest to find out who the boy is and what was so important that someone would want him dead.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJackie GleasonRosemary DeCampJohn BrownPeg is concerned by Junior's behavior. The boy is picking at his food and seems completely distracted. Riley discovers Junior is in love with his teacher, meeting the woman he begins to fear he is having the same reaction. Fearful of the ramifications he confronts Peg with his concerns, both are pleasantly surprised to discover the truth
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJackie GleasonRosemary DeCampLanny ReesRiley is helping Junior with his homework, while he is working on his own night school assignments. Later during a test Riley is accused of cheating and expelled from school. It is discovered a fellow student, Tony has written a confession admitting he was the real cheat. Everyone is puzzled by Riley's behavior, why did he remain silent to save Tony. The answer surprises them all and changes Tony's life forever
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsJohn KelloggThe Lone Ranger becomes concerned when he hears a recently released prisoner, John Ames is returning to his home town threatening to take revenge on those who wrongly accused him of robbing a stage. At the town news breaks that Ames' intended victims are dead. The Lone Ranger becomes embroiled in the mystery when he's accused of aiding Ames in the murders.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsJohn DoucetteThe Lone Ranger, pretends to be a notorious outlaw known as "The Mask Rider" so he can join a gang that is holding the sheriff's fiancée hostage and save her.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsCarol ThurstonNat Parker has just gotten out of prison after serving 4 years for bank robbery, and is determined to kill his two outlaw partners whom he took the rap for, and recover the $75,000 in stolen money for himself. His loving girlfriend Beata, and Father Paul, ask the Lone Ranger to help before Nat makes a grave mistake and ends up back in prison.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsJackie GleasonRosemary DeCampLanny ReesRiley plans for Junior to have a birthday party, but when his friends start calling to cancel, Riley fears he may once again fail his son.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsAnne O'NealJoe Peter's sister visits her brother for the first time in 30 years. Only now he's being impersonated by escaped jailbird Biff Baker.
- DirectorGeorge B. Seitz Jr.StarsClayton MooreJay SilverheelsLouise LorimerThe Ranger investigates why a series of Wells Fargo robberies throughout the territory seem to have spared Boone County.