Abbott & Costello Show #3, The (1950) Rating: Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello Director: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna Category: Comedy, Classics, Classics, Television Studio: Koch Releasing Subtitles: [None] Length: 110 mins     The Abbott and Costello TV Show is timeless American humor, as fresh as it was 40 years ago.All the classic routines which "the boys" performed on film, radio and stage, were captured in 1952-1953 for the new medium of television and delivered at the peak of their powers. The regular cast of characters, including Mr. Fields, Mike the Cop, Stinky, Bacciagalupe and Hillary, had worked with Bud and Lou on film and stage and each contributed memorably.These shows stand today as perhaps the finest surviving representation of the art of burlesque comedy. Lou Falls For Ruby Lou's pretty neighbor, Ruby, induces him to fall for her in a plot to free herself from her gangster boyfriend.Lou is so smitten by her that a piece of bread he put in his pocket turns to toast.He then amazes Ruby by dipping pickles in milk before eating them and getting into a furious fight with a scarecrow. Hillary's Father Hillary's father visits and insists that she can only marry a man of considerable musical talent.So Lou goes to Mr. Field's brother for singing lessons and when that doesn't work, he and Bud cook up a scheme to fool the old man by buying records from Bacciagalupe's music store and pretending that it's really Lou singing.As the plot unfolds Mr. Fields offers a hilarious diversion withhis description of life on the farm. Uncle Ruppert To stop Mr. Fields from evicting them, the boys convince him that Lou is about to receive a lot of money from a fictitious rich uncle, Ruppert.Lou dresses up with a false beard and pretends to be Uncle Ruppert until Mike the Cop thinks Lou has killed him.Mike and Fields confound the whole situation to the point of classic vaudeville hilarity. Bingo's Troubles After causing havoc in their new job in a pet store, the boys drive Mike the Cop batty with their pal, Bingo the Chimp.At Mike's insistence that they get a license for Bingo, Lou mistakenly applies for a marriage license causing much havoc at the town hall.Things really get hilarious when Bingo winds up in a neighborhood woman's baby carriage.