Overview
A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
S01E01 Kingfish Gets Drafted
June 28, 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.
S01E02 Kingfish's Secretary
July 5, 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.
S01E03 Young Girl's Mother
July 12, 1951 30 min
Andy wants to marry a very young girl until he meets her mother, a formidable woman he jilted many years ago.
S01E04 Rare Coin
September 19, 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.
S01E05 Kingfish Has a Baby
July 26, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish decides to reform because he thinks he is about to become a father.
S01E06 Counterfeiters Rent Basement
August 2, 1951 30 min
Andy becomes a hero when he overpowers a gang of counterfeiters and collects a fat reward.
S01E07 Sapphire Disappears
August 9, 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.
S01E08 The Winslow Woman
August 16, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish wants Andy to marry wealthy Mrs. Winslow, even when the not-so-wealthy woman actually show up.
S01E09 The Gun
August 23, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish, trying to pawn a gun, is mistaken for a robber.
S01E10 Call Lehigh 4-9900
August 30, 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.
S01E11 Leroy Lends a Hand
September 6, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish and Andy go into the parking lot business and wind up in the used car business
S01E12 Fur Coat
September 13, 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.
S01E13 Jewelry Store Robbery
September 20, 1951 30 min
Andy and the Kingfish find that a snapshot they took is worth $1000 because it shows a man robbing a store.
S01E14 Kingfish's Last Friend
September 27, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish has swindled too many people and is losing all of his friends so he goes on a reform kick.
S01E15 Andy Buys a House
October 4, 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.
S01E16 Amos Helps Out
October 11, 1951 10.0 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.
S01E17 Getting Mama Married (1)
October 18, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish's mother-in-law elopes with a conman and a fleecer of widows.
S01E18 Getting Mama Married (2)
October 25, 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.
S01E19 The Happy Stevenses
November 1, 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.
S01E20 Traffic Violation
November 8, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish and Andy, co-owners of a car, compete with each other in the collection of traffic tickets.
S01E21 Quo Vadis
November 15, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish goes to a lavish dinner party at which he finds, uncomfortably, that Sapphire is a waitress.
S01E22 The Diner
November 22, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish and Andy buy a diner, which was doing a good business, and run it out of business.
S01E23 The Turkey Dinner
November 29, 1951 30 min
The Kingfish is conned into buying stolen turkeys from a country bumpkin.
S01E24 Ready Made Family
December 6, 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...
S01E25 Relatives
December 20, 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.
S01E26 Andy Gets a Telegram
December 27, 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.
S01E27 Hospitalization
January 3, 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.