Amos 'n' Andy - The Kingfish Gets Amnesia (1955)

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  • Amos n Andy S 2E 12 - The Kingfish Gets Amnesia. The Kingfish gets amnesia when all of his friends come over asking him to repay old debts. AIRED February 23, 1955 8:30 PM on CBS
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  • @zuazhar1630
    @zuazhar1630 2 года назад +13

    The actress friend of Sapphire’s is Dorothy Dandridge’s mother, Ruby Dandridge. She was a prolific actress and was a regular on the “Beulah” TV show, with Academy Award winner, Hattie McDaniel.

  • @dontheshark
    @dontheshark Год назад +4

    My parents and brother and sisters watched the show together. Kingfish always made us laugh. A great show.

  • @gregriddle3042
    @gregriddle3042 3 года назад +28

    I wish shows like this would come back! Great stuff!!

  • @listen2meokidoki264
    @listen2meokidoki264 2 года назад +8

    Sounds like a wonderful Play that Chickens Come Home to Roost.

  • @everettwhite9874
    @everettwhite9874 3 года назад +27

    Amos and Andy
    I love watching every episode that I can find.
    Keep these coming.
    ❤️❤️

  • @jamesarcaini5051
    @jamesarcaini5051 3 года назад +8

    Was some of the finest Radio then TV ever
    Clean humor and lessons on human nature

  • @phildh9150
    @phildh9150 2 года назад +11

    What a hilarious dig on banking in general. This was very well written.

  • @brucemcgee2281
    @brucemcgee2281 2 года назад +22

    Tim Moore, and Ernestine Wade were the true stars of this show. Used to watch it every afternoon with my dad when he came in from work. He laughed as hard as I did. Those were good times.

    • @charlescarter5335
      @charlescarter5335 2 года назад +4

      The really funniest is either Calhoun or Lightnin.

    • @zuazhar1630
      @zuazhar1630 2 года назад +4

      The honorable Algonquin J Calhoun!

    • @coobay4786
      @coobay4786 Год назад +5

      They were all great 😊

  • @geraldthomas1999
    @geraldthomas1999 3 года назад +11

    My Grandma had me watching these with her years ago.

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Год назад +1

      I watched this with my great grandmother when I was six years old. Roasted pnuts and Coca-Cola

  • @ollywurk
    @ollywurk 3 года назад +60

    LOL what a great show, no profanity just good old fashioned buffoonery by a great talented cast. I love Amos and Andy.

  • @gentlemann2458
    @gentlemann2458 Год назад +9

    This was a well written episode

  • @36cmbr
    @36cmbr 3 года назад +19

    This is an episode I cannot remember ever seeing. I had 49 episodes on VHS that I carefully collected but this episode is a wonderful new surprise.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 3 года назад +4

      78 episodes were produced (the last 26 were originally syndicated from 1953 through 1955).

    • @listen2meokidoki264
      @listen2meokidoki264 2 года назад +1

      WIKI mentions the number of episodes.

    • @CombatDoc54
      @CombatDoc54 Год назад +1

      What's "VHS"?🤣😂

  • @andretill9733
    @andretill9733 3 года назад +18

    Pure classic!6

  • @trailortrash85
    @trailortrash85 3 года назад +15

    Great old show!

  • @evanflowforever6615
    @evanflowforever6615 Год назад +5

    Who the Kingfish? Lol. He was the greatest. Pioneer

  • @phillipscruggs4657
    @phillipscruggs4657 3 года назад +15

    May your days be filled with love, peace and prosperity, God bless 💯🙏🏽💚

  • @bcj842
    @bcj842 2 года назад +6

    At the risk of beating a dead horse…. Auhhhh….Who da Kingfish?

  • @new_yawker901
    @new_yawker901 3 года назад +10

    Kingfish sporting a drop-top fade haircut. 😅😅

  • @aislinnkeilah7361
    @aislinnkeilah7361 Год назад +9

    Clean comedy - no profanity, porn references, or violence. Respect for marriage and women. Clever dialogue - always well dressed. Those who complain should look at themselves. This series was as good as I Love Lucy.

  • @steve732
    @steve732 3 года назад +26

    It takes less than 60 seconds to get totally engrossed in these episodes. And all of them have a life message in them

    • @cute4real846
      @cute4real846 Год назад +5

      The woman who pretended to be the wife of Amnesia Kingfish was Ruby Dandridge , Dorothy Dandridge’s mother

  • @jerryjohnson575
    @jerryjohnson575 2 года назад +6

    love to the show talent and good souls comedy.. interesting show

  • @alvincash3230
    @alvincash3230 6 месяцев назад +1

    Imaginative writing & terrific acting = hilarious comedy.

  • @anitahermalin2275
    @anitahermalin2275 2 года назад +43

    This was absolutely the best comedy show ever. It beats out Abbott and Costello and the 3 Stooges.

  • @tyty274
    @tyty274 3 года назад +9

    This is my favorite Amos and Andy episode!

  • @billgray3796
    @billgray3796 Год назад +2

    The greatest show ever..

  • @olymphiamontgomery7706
    @olymphiamontgomery7706 2 года назад +7

    They don’t make them like this no more 😞

  • @salimokwaye3831
    @salimokwaye3831 2 года назад +11

    Andy got his $50.00 back and Kingfish conned him out of it again Andy was a big dummy 🤣

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines Год назад +4

      Almost every episode was a variation of "How will the Kingfish put one over on Andy *this* time?"

  • @Magnusscipioiterum
    @Magnusscipioiterum Год назад +11

    Ernestine was a true talent and I wish the studios picked her up for more roles. Being it was the mid 50s, what racism in media did is deny us really good entertainment.

    • @bloqk16
      @bloqk16 9 месяцев назад +3

      The scenes Ernestine was in were pure delights to view; especially when she would turn from being joyful to hostile on a dime, with that hostility directed at the Kingfish.

  • @IMN602
    @IMN602 2 года назад +21

    That face he makes everytime he says
    ".... who the kingfish??" always gets me!

  • @coobay4786
    @coobay4786 Год назад +4

    The mama is one tuff cookie.

  • @expressomixed7558
    @expressomixed7558 3 года назад +10

    Yes. Love This

  • @yahuahyahuwdah
    @yahuahyahuwdah 2 года назад +5

    Thank you, "Nupitualated" :)

  • @bonniekimbrough7661
    @bonniekimbrough7661 2 года назад +4

    Best sit-com ever

    • @coobay4786
      @coobay4786 Год назад

      Definitely in the all time top 10👍

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 3 года назад +8

    This is a syndicated episode, seen at various times on local stations in February 1955 [WCBS-TV in New York initially scheduled it as late as October 1955].

    • @RatnipTX
      @RatnipTX Год назад +3

      Right. Because Amos ‘n Andy premiered September, 1951 and only two seasons.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines Год назад +1

      Two seasons on the network {52 episodes}, and two in syndication {26 episodes}.

    • @kevinmadden1645
      @kevinmadden1645 Год назад +2

      The last two or three original episodes were broadcast in 1955, two years after the NAACP demanded that the show be cancelled.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines Год назад +2

      What happend was, after the NAACP convinced Blatz Beer to end their sponsorship of the series in June 1953 (after two seasons), CBS pulled "THE AMOS 'N' ANDY SHOW" from their schedule. However, only 52 episodes had been produced up to that point. They wanted to add more episodes to make it profitable in syndication, so they produced 26 additional episodes for first-run syndication from 1953 through '55 [13 apiece, over two seasons; the last 13 were intended to be titled "THE ADVENTURES OF THE KINGFISH", as Tim Moore had become the de facto star of the series, but that idea was scrapped]. CBS Films then syndicated all 78 episodes over the next decade- and it was one of the most widely distributed off-network series......until new protests began in the early 1960's. Finally, in 1966, CBS decided to permanently withdraw "THE AMOS 'N' ANDY SHOW" from distribution- and it hasn't been seen on any local stations since.

  • @ardiffley-zipkin9539
    @ardiffley-zipkin9539 Год назад +4

    Very funny ! Good for Sapphire and Andy ! Thanks for sharing !

  • @prosmokeprochokeantibroke
    @prosmokeprochokeantibroke 3 года назад +11

    Same thing brother Malcolm said about the chickens

    • @aarondigby9859
      @aarondigby9859 2 года назад

      What's television? That's radio with talking pictures, hilarious without every punchline or laugh line being some type of sexual innuendo, political gimmick, just plain simple comedy that's actually tickles your ribs.

  • @johnshaffter4093
    @johnshaffter4093 Год назад +2

    Great-, Great’!

  • @elainep1772
    @elainep1772 3 года назад +7

    Dorothy Dandridge's mother is playing Tom Smith long lost wife.

  • @tbec3011
    @tbec3011 Год назад +3

    Whoda Kingfish? 🤣

  • @redsky8763
    @redsky8763 8 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent show all around.

    • @redsky8763
      @redsky8763 8 месяцев назад

      Being done in black and white makes it much better.

  • @danomojo1
    @danomojo1 3 года назад +4

    So good.

  • @elizahhoward3923
    @elizahhoward3923 2 года назад +3

    John Witherspoon reminded me of kingfish

    • @adriennesmith2133
      @adriennesmith2133 2 года назад

      Red fox patterned his character Fred Sanford after the character King Fish.

  • @kate56966
    @kate56966 2 года назад +4

    What a handsome man @ 9:43

  • @thomastarwater2989
    @thomastarwater2989 Год назад +4

    The Kingfisher might have thought he had his wife Sapphire and his mother-in-law snookered with that bullshit story of him being in the 135th Battalion, until she got that telephone call from the local newspaper reporter. And he was wearing a uniform with a ton of decorations and medals. That would be seen as stolen valor today. Anyway, the roof caved in on the Kingfisher. Cute episode, leagues ahead of the black comedy films of today,

  • @phylis3917
    @phylis3917 9 месяцев назад

    One of our favorites.

  • @melkilefavorite3120
    @melkilefavorite3120 2 года назад +4

    Every 🌃 night funny

  • @HERBYWALLACE3
    @HERBYWALLACE3 3 года назад +6

    Love it

  • @kevinmadden1645
    @kevinmadden1645 9 месяцев назад +1

    🎉The storyline of this episode contradicts the fact that Kingfish and Andy grew up together in Marietta, Georgia.

  • @charlescarter5335
    @charlescarter5335 2 года назад +5

    Who'da Kingfish???

  • @varrick1226
    @varrick1226 3 года назад +20

    Wouldn't it be wonderful to go back to these times. They were happy then.

    • @jonathanbeatrice8317
      @jonathanbeatrice8317 2 года назад +3

      Sure, for us white people...

    • @coobay4786
      @coobay4786 Год назад +3

      I grew up back then and no way do I want to go back to NO AIR CONDITIONING 😮

  • @user-cc6nb5th6x
    @user-cc6nb5th6x 10 месяцев назад

    Classic clean comedy.

  • @charlescarter5335
    @charlescarter5335 2 года назад +5

    Who'da Kingfish. I'm thinking about changing my name to WHODA KINGFISH.......

  • @lcwhitehorn2328
    @lcwhitehorn2328 8 месяцев назад +1

    Yes 🥰 I that show

  • @hawkmaster381
    @hawkmaster381 Год назад +8

    What a beautiful show and such talented actors. Sadly, because of the two-bit, race-baiting idiots at the NAACP, this show was forceably cancelled because they claimed it depicted blacks as crooks and lazy and didn't represent their real advancements and achievements. If they (NAACP) bothered watching the show, they would have seen that blacks in this show were often represented by professionals such as government employees, doctors, lawyers, judges, police, secretaries, business owners, military, and teachers and utility workers without a scrap of disrespect or racism. The only characters that were crooked/lazy was Kingfish, but ALL sitcoms had such characters! Archie Bunker was depicted as an ignorant bigot, yet he was the centerpiece of "All in the Family". Fred Sanford was cast as a wisecracking junk store owner in "Sanford & Son" but he was the centerpiece. Ralph Cramden of "The Honeymooners" was cast as a complete idiot, but he was the main character. Because of the NAACP, the fine actors of "Amos and Andy" lost their lucrative careers and futures in acting and stage and were never able to regain it - many dying as unknowns in Hollywood. Thanks NAACP. You are the REAL racists. You RUINED the hard work of these wonderful people and stopped their art in its tracks. You stopped them, destroyed their potential and kept them from being successful. 😡

  • @robertszvetics210
    @robertszvetics210 Год назад +2

    THESE SHOWS OUGHT TO BE RESTORED AND PUT ON BLURAY DISCS.

  • @phylis3917
    @phylis3917 10 месяцев назад

    A favorite of brother’s.

  • @thejword
    @thejword 3 года назад +4

    Who da kingfish?

  • @eddylauterback1312
    @eddylauterback1312 Год назад +5

    Some have called these racist but Sanford and Son was less flattering toward blacks

  • @phylis3917
    @phylis3917 10 месяцев назад

    My brother’s favorite.

  • @lindacshort3558
    @lindacshort3558 3 года назад +5

    I know, I was a little girl! What year was this out?

    • @ElleBrOw
      @ElleBrOw 3 года назад +1

      1955 is in the title

  • @oohweeoohwee9222
    @oohweeoohwee9222 2 года назад +3

    Sapphire fine

  • @janicewashington4318
    @janicewashington4318 3 года назад +9

    Kingfish full of shi&😂

    • @coobay4786
      @coobay4786 Год назад +1

      Yeah and he's hilarious 😅

  • @butterfly597
    @butterfly597 Год назад +2

    Back when perverts didn't exist or seldom existed.

  • @user-zg7vm5dd8y
    @user-zg7vm5dd8y 2 месяца назад

    Let see yours eyes

  • @waltvancourt5052
    @waltvancourt5052 10 месяцев назад +1

    The days of great tv shows are long gone, now its all trash tv.

  • @rickyt43515
    @rickyt43515 Год назад +3

    I was 6 when was Aired

  • @alexciocca4451
    @alexciocca4451 3 года назад +3

    A

  • @christopherglover9841
    @christopherglover9841 2 года назад +2

    Be

  • @flintknudsen2155
    @flintknudsen2155 2 года назад +12

    AMOS AND ANDY was a great show with a cast of seasoned and overachieving performers. It sickened me to see their work trashed by race-obsessed noisemakers.

    • @dominicalberto2179
      @dominicalberto2179 2 года назад +3

      It is a great show. I get so tired of people talking about race all the time.

    • @zuazhar1630
      @zuazhar1630 2 года назад

      Flint Knudsen: Race is a fallacy, but it is about respect for African American “culture.”