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A pair of friends in Harlem find themselves caught up in a series of misadventures, business schemes, and everyday problems, often relying on their neighbors and community to help them out of trouble.
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1952
The Kingfish has been stealing money from Sapphire's piggy bank and wins a quiz show jackpot just in time for his and Sapphire's 25th anniversary.
The Kingfish believes that Sapphire is in love with another man and that she and her beau are planning to get rid of him.
The Kingfish devises a plot to make Andy fail his road test so that he can buy his car cheaply.
Andy and the Kingfish accidentally become involved with a top military secret and the FBI when they mistakenly take a new secret altimeter clock for a replacement for their broken one.
Sapphire maintains that her boarder, a singer with a large appetite, is a cultural asset, but to the Kingfish he is a gorging freeloader.
The Kingfish plays matchmaker and arranges a match between Andy and an older woman, in the hope of collecting a services rendered fee.
The Kingfish sets up a phony raffle that forces him to wind up in Arabia drilling for oil, trying to earn enough money to get home.
The Kingfish decides to dispose of a worthless piece of property to Andy, but it's Andy who gets the last laugh.
The Kingfish gets conned when Andy sells him a broken down race horse.
The Kingfish adopts Andy so that he will become eligible for a $2000 bequest under the terms of Cousin Effie's will.
While trying to do a good deed and repay a jeweler for the use of his electricity, the Kingfish becomes a fugitive from justice when he accidentally trips the store's burglar alarm.
The Kingfish outfoxes himself when he sends all his lodge brothers into an antique shop to convince his cousin Leo to buy it, but with all those customers the store owner won't sell.
Andy is working very hard to earn enough money to buy a doll for his godchild.
Sapphire gives the Kingfish the third degree and wants to know why he received a birthday card signed Sweetheart.
The Kingfish gives Sapphire some stolen ballet tickets which land her in jail. She ends up in jail a second time when the Kingfish gives her a phony five dollar bill.
Double trouble for Andy, he has gotten engaged to two women.
The Kingfish stages a clothing sale at the Lodge using a lieutenant's entire wardrobe.
Sapphire thinks the Kingfish is secretly dating another woman, so she decides to make him jealous by having dinner alone with Andy.
Andy, jealous over his girlfriend's amorous scenes in a play, decides to become an actor.
The Kingfish pushed by Sapphire to get a job, becomes a door-to-door salesman, persuading Andy to take over at no salary.
The Kingfish sells Andy a ring he finds in his crackerjack box before he finds out how valuable the ring really is.
Feeling he's a failure at life, the Kingfish decides to take a series of aptitude tests to determine what his career should be.
The Kingfish tries to get rid of Sapphire's sister by arranging a marriage between her and Andy, then learns she has $10,000 of savings in the bank.
The Kingfish goes on a self-improvement course because Sapphire goes overboard over an ex-boyfriend and former Mr. America.
The Kingfish falls in love with a baby which is up for adoption, but instead is stuck with Horrible Horace, Sapphire's pesty nephew.
1953
Andy goes into the doughnut business and the Kingfish decides he wants to get in on the deal.
Andy and the Kingfish are frightened when they have to appear before the Internal Revenue Service. It turns out all they have to do is fill out new forms.
The Kingfish tries to swindle Andy by taking him on a trip through Central Park and pretending it is the entire USA.
The Kingfish hires a pretty young secretary to help him straighten out the lodge's messy book keeping, but ultimately ends up with Sapphire's mother.
The Kingfish buys an old chair stuffed with money and then, not knowing the money is in the chair, he gives it away.
Andy puts a wife-seeking ad in the newspaper and gets a good response, but all the applicants need dental work.
1951
When the Kingfish gets drafted, his wife and his lodge brothers applaud but soon change their tune when his outfit is to go overseas.
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.
Andy wants to marry a very young girl until he meets her mother, a formidable woman he jilted many years ago.
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.
The Kingfish decides to reform because he thinks he is about to become a father.
Andy becomes a hero when he overpowers a gang of counterfeiters and collects a fat reward.
The Kingfish thinks Sapphire has been murdered when she leaves him in a huff and he can find no trace of her.
The Kingfish wants Andy to marry wealthy Mrs. Winslow, even when the not-so-wealthy woman actually show up.
The Kingfish, trying to pawn a gun, is mistaken for a robber.
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.
The Kingfish and Andy go into the parking lot business and wind up in the used car business
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.
Andy and the Kingfish find that a snapshot they took is worth $1000 because it shows a man robbing a store.
The Kingfish has swindled too many people and is losing all of his friends so he goes on a reform kick.
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.
After a domestic fight, the Kingfish writes a fake letter form the license bureau stating that he and Sapphire were never legally married.
The Kingfish's mother-in-law elopes with a conman and a fleecer of widows.
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.
The Kingfish and Sapphire imitate participants in a radio show about a happy marriage, in order to change the pattern of their stormy marriage.
The Kingfish and Andy, co-owners of a car, compete with each other in the collection of traffic tickets.
The Kingfish goes to a lavish dinner party at which he finds, uncomfortably, that Sapphire is a waitress.
The Kingfish and Andy buy a diner, which was doing a good business, and run it out of business.
The Kingfish is conned into buying stolen turkeys from a country bumpkin.
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.
Clamming that his mother-in-law disturbs his home, the Kingfish takes his problems to family court. Meanwhile, more relatives show up.
The Kingfish winds up on a cattle boat bound for South America when Sapphire plots to separate him from his worthless friends.
Andy buys hospitalization insurance from the Kingfish and then relaxes in the hospital, turning the Kingfish frantic with bills he can't pay.
