About this season
A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.
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.