Many of the episodes revolved around Moore's Kingfish character, supported by Ernestine Wade as his level-headed, emotionally strong wife Sapphire, and Amanda Randolph as his openly aggressive mother-in-law, without the participation of Amos or Andy. These Kingfish-only episodes were originally produced as a spinoff series, "The Adventures of Kingfish", which made its debut on CBS on January 4, 1955 but lasted only a few episodes. When the "Amos 'n' Andy" half-hours went into syndication, the "Adventures of Kingfish" shows were added to the syndicated package under the "Amos 'n' Andy" series title.