Topper
Series· 1953–1955· 30mTV-PG

Topper

Sci-Fi & FantasyComedy

Topper is an American fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film of the same name. The series was broadcast on CBS from October 9, 1953 to July 15, 1955, and stars Leo G. Carroll in the title role.

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Last airedFinale
S2 · E39Topper's Vacation

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Seasons

Season 21954
39 episodes
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    E1Topper Tells All

    Topper has his day in court, over a parking ticket.

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    E2Topper's Ransom

    The bank is robbed, the Kerbys ride to the rescue.

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    E3County Fair

    Feathering your nest, you might say.

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    E4The Seance

    The Kerbys arrange an entertainment of sorts.

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    E5Topper Strikes Gold

    Topper comes into money, but is it a dry hole?

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    E6The Chess Player

    Chess by the fire beats chess by wire, what?

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    E7Topper Goes to Washington

    Government business, that sort of thing.

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    E8Jury Duty

    Who needs it?

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    E9Topper Lives Again

    Cosmo mishears his diagnosis, prepares to join George and Marion.

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    E10The Army Game

    Topper is drafted. Just SNAFU.

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    E11Topper's Accident

    In quarantine.

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    E12Topper's Quiet Christmas

    Topper's playing Scrooge, the Kerbys haunt his holidays.

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    E13Topper's Happy New Year

    Always a festive occasion.

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    E14Topper's Deception

    Cheering up someone else, playing charades as servants for the cook's parents, why not, hm?

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    E15Topper's Guest

    A monkey's uncle.

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    E16Topper's Rejuvenation

    Back to the fittest. Survival, you know.

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    E17Topper in Mexico

    After the teller gone south of the border.

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    E18Topper Hits the Road

    Topper is assigned by the bank to find a wealthy but unknown depositor of railroad stock now worth six-and-a-half million dollars.

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    E19Topper at the Races

    Entertaining the client.

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    E20Topper's Racket

    Beating the bookie.

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    E21Topper's Amnesia

    The old bean gets beaned and knows not the Kerbys.

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    E22Topper's Arabian Night

    A chic sheik, but is he for real?

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    E23The House Wreckers

    A freeway? Over George & Marion's dead bodies!

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    E24Topper Makes a Movie

    A studio loan.

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    E25King Cosmo the First

    The Prisoner of Zenda

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    E26Topper's Double Life

    A contest entry in Topper's name, by George.

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    E27Topper Fights a Duel

    The French, they are a funny race.

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    E28Topper's Egyptian Deal

    Pyramids, mummies, that sort of thing.

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    E29Topper's Uranium Pile

    George is prospecting, out in the back yard.

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    E30Topper's Spring Cleaning

    George invents a martini maker that vacuums your floors.

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    E31Topper Goes to School

    Raising funds for Henrietta's alma mater.

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    E32The Blood Brother

    George's old chum, just out of the pen.

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    E33Topper's Highland Fling

    The Ghosts Go East.

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    E34Topper's Desert Island

    George simply had to fly the plane.

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    E35The Neighbors

    The cook meets a butler.

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    E36Topper's Counterfeiters

    Topper helps the Feds.

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    E37Topper's Insurance Scandal

    The Kerbys stake a claim on his accident policy.

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    E38Topper's Other Job

    Facing the boot, he scrounges for loot.

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    E39Topper's VacationFinale

    A business upstart, hm, bad business that.

Season 11953
39 episodes
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    E1Topper Meets the Ghosts

    An avalanche does in the Kerbys while skiing, to their bemusement. The Toppers are buying their old haunts.

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    E2The Movers

    Moving day, and the ghosts reveal themselves only to Topper.

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    E3Hiring the Maid

    Exit Velma, so George scares up a replacement.

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    E4The Hypnotist

    The Kerbys demolish a charlatan.

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    E5Reducing

    Cosmo tries to be a slimmer he.

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    E6The Spinster

    Her cap is new-set at a Topper table guest.

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    E7Bank Securities

    Neil, who is fond of a snifter, absconds with bank papers.

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    E8The Kid

    An amusing tyke.

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    E9Burglar Episode

    A burglar is prowling the neighborhood.

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    E10Uncle Jonathan

    Foreign relations.

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    E11The Car Story

    A fast-moving tale.

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    E12Christmas Carol

    Dickens, by Topper.

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    E13Masquerade

    Topper rings in the new year.

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    E14Second Honeymoon

    Mr. & Mrs. Topper spend their anniversary in a haunted inn.

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    E15The Socialite

    Mrs. Topper butters up the poetry set.

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    E16The Surprise Party

    As if every day wasn't.

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    E17The Decorating Episode

    It's always fair weather, if it isn't foul, or something.

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    E18Astrology

    The stars look down on Topper's workaday world.

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    E19Trip to Lisbon

    A port in any storm.

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    E20The Proposal

    Putting this one across is no easy matter.

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    E21Katie's Nephew

    A juvenile influence on the Kerbys, or the other way around.

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    E22The College Reunion

    The Kerbys give Topper's old school tie a fillip.

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    E23Economy

    Batten down the hatches, tight ship.

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    E24The Diamond Ring

    An insurance company investigator is suspicious of the Kerbys.

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    E25Topper Runs for Mayor

    His boss is in the enemy camp.

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    E26The Painting Episode

    A phonybaloney art instructor shows Mrs. Topper the spiritual side of life.

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    E27Henrietta Sells the House

    The Kerbys will have none of it.

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    E28Legacy

    What goes up the family tree, must come down eventually...

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    E29Topper Goes to Las Vegas

    George & Marion even the odds.

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    E30Topper Goes West

    New Mexico, cattle ranch, bank business.

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    E31A Ghostly Joke

    The Kerbys play a joke on Cosmo by convincing him he's won $800,000 playing the Irish Sweepstakes.

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    E32The Package

    The Kerbys do their own mail sorting at the P.O.

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    E33Neil Disappears

    Of course he does, when he feels like it, but not with a State Department pouch.

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    E34The Picnic

    Dejeuner sur l'herbe, said the punning health food nut.

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    E35The Wedding

    It's all arranged by Mrs. Topper.

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    E36Preparations for Europe

    But are the Toppers ready?

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    E37The Boat

    Topper is surrounded by card sharks.

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    E38Theatrical Episode

    Enter Cosmo.

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    E39George's Old FlameFinale

    She's engaged to a Hollywood star, but is he all he seems?

Details

Networks
CBS
Seasons
2 · 78 episodes
Runtime
30m per episode
Status
Ended
Language
EN
First aired
October 9, 1953
Content rating
TV-PG
Country
United States of America
Production
CBS
IMDB ID
tt0045447
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