The Amos & Andy Show - "Kingfish At The Ball Game" (04-16-53)

Kingfish At The Ball Game (Aired April 16, 1953)

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With the listening audience increasing in the spring and summer of 1928, the show's success prompted the Pepsodent Company to bring it to the NBC Blue Network on August 19, 1929. Amos was naïve but honest, hard-working and (after his 1933 marriage to Ruby Taylor) a dedicated family man. Andy was more blustering, with overinflated self-confidence. Andy, being a dreamer, tended to let Amos do most of the work. Their lodge leader, the Kingfish, was always trying to lure the two into get-rich-quick schemes. Other characters included John Augustus "Brother" Crawford, an industrious but long-suffering family man; Henry Van Porter, a social-climbing real estate and insurance salesman; Frederick Montgomery Gwindell, a hard-charging newspaperman; William Lewis Taylor, the well-spoken, college-educated father of Amos's fiancee; and "Lightning", a slow-moving Stepin Fetchit-type character.

THIS EPISODE:
 
April 16, 1953. CBS-TV network origination, syndicated, audio + video. "The Wentworth $ 3000.00 Engagement Ring" AKA: "Kingfish At The Ball Game". Commercials deleted and/or added locally.. It could only happen to the Kingfish. While enjoying the ball-game at Yankee Stadium, a woman drops her $3000 pearl ring...and it lands in a box of Krispy Jacks being held by the Kingfish. Excellent film video. Freeman Gosden (creator), Charles Correll (creator), Bob Ross (writer), David Schwartz (writer), Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Johnny Lee, Nicodemus Stewart, Joan Henderson ("little girl"), Michael Jackson ("first boy"), James Jackson ("second boy"), Walter Woolf King ("Mr. Wentworth"), Lois Austin ("Mrs. Wentworth"), Charles Barton (director). 26:25.  Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index. Cat.#109182.