The Red Skelton Show

The Red Skelton Show

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.

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1. The Skylarks

Air Date: 1951-09-30

2. How to Wash a Baby

Air Date: 1951-10-07

3. Dunking Doughnuts

Air Date: 1951-10-14

4. Smokeless Sunday

Air Date: 1951-10-21

5. Laying a Cornerstone

Air Date: 1951-10-28

6. Willie and the Burglar

Air Date: 1951-11-04

7. Cafe Paree

Air Date: 1951-11-11

8. G.I. McPugg

Air Date: 1951-11-18

9. Clem and Married Life

Air Date: 1951-11-25

10. Stairs

Air Date: 1951-12-02

11. The Big Trial

Air Date: 1951-12-09

12. Clean Politics

Air Date: 1951-12-16

13. The Skeltons at Home

Air Date: 1951-12-23

14. Learn To Dance in Ten Easy Lessons or One Hard One

Air Date: 1951-12-30

15. The Bouncer

Air Date: 1952-01-06

16. McPugg the Babysitter

Air Date: 1952-01-13

17. Clean Fighter

Air Date: 1952-01-20

18. Rock-a-Bye Baby

Air Date: 1952-01-27

19. San Fernando Red on Television

Air Date: 1952-02-03

20. The Transcontinental

Air Date: 1952-02-10

21. The Disc Jockey

Air Date: 1952-02-17

22. How to Make a Salad

Air Date: 1952-02-24

23. Pasquale's Hotel

Air Date: 1952-03-02

24. Napoleon

Air Date: 1952-03-09

25. Dirty Deadeye

Air Date: 1952-03-16

26. How to Eat Corn on the Cob

Air Date: 1952-03-23

27. Willie the Barber

Air Date: 1952-03-30

28. Clem's Travel Club

Air Date: 1952-04-06

29. Mad Scientist

Air Date: 1952-04-13

30. Helen of Troy

Air Date: 1952-04-20

31. The Railroad Tower

Air Date: 1952-04-27

32. It Takes All Kinds (Live in San Francisco)

Air Date: 1952-05-04

33. Let's Talk About Mother

Air Date: 1952-05-11

34. Telephone Trouble

Air Date: 1952-05-18

35. The Railroad Station

Air Date: 1952-05-25

36. Tornado Deadeye

Air Date: 1952-06-01

37. Folding Boy

Air Date: 1952-06-08

38. Let's Talk About Father

Air Date: 1952-06-15

39. Imaginary Dog

Air Date: 1952-06-22

1. Willie Comes Home

Air Date: 1952-09-28

2. Willie Paints a Room

Air Date: 1952-10-05

3. Stagecoach Robbery

Air Date: 1952-10-12

4. Calling Dr. Prankenstein

Air Date: 1952-10-19

5. Lieutenant Muscles

Air Date: 1952-10-26

6. Whistle Stop

Air Date: 1952-11-02

7. Clem Kadiddlehopper's Graduation

Air Date: 1952-11-09

8. Help Wanted

Air Date: 1952-11-16

9. Weepy Talks Turkey

Air Date: 1952-11-23

10. One Man's Mortgage

Air Date: 1952-11-30

11. Fancy Footwork

Air Date: 1952-12-07

12. The Sultan

Air Date: 1952-12-14

13. The Christmas Show

Air Date: 1952-12-21

14. Highlight of 1951-52 season

Air Date: 1952-12-28

15. The Big Trial

Air Date: 1953-01-04

16. Drug Store; Private Eye

Air Date: 1953-01-11

17. The Whistle Stop

Air Date: 1953-01-18

18. Rush-Rush

Air Date: 1953-01-25

19. Helen O'Connell

Air Date: 1953-02-01

20. How to Eat Corn

Air Date: 1953-02-08

21. Dirty Deadeye

Air Date: 1953-02-15

22. French Waiter

Air Date: 1953-02-22

23. Mills Brothers

Air Date: 1953-03-01

24. Telephone Booth

Air Date: 1953-03-08

25. June Havoc

Air Date: 1953-03-15

26. Ambulance Driver

Air Date: 1953-03-22

27. Quiz Show Winner

Air Date: 1953-03-29

28. The Eyes Have It

Air Date: 1953-04-05

29. Sure As Shootin'

Air Date: 1953-04-12

30. Baby's First Birthday

Air Date: 1953-04-19

31. 3-D

Air Date: 1953-04-26

32. Racetrack

Air Date: 1953-05-03

33. Washing the Elephant

Air Date: 1953-05-10

34. Marooned

Air Date: 1953-05-17

35. Gale Robbins

Air Date: 1953-05-24

36. Freddie Becomes a Star-Gazer

Air Date: 1953-05-31

37. Scarlet Ribbons

Air Date: 1953-06-07

38. Helen O'Connell

Air Date: 1953-06-14

39. Deadeye from Mars

Air Date: 1953-06-21

1. McPugg's Last Fight

Air Date: 1953-09-22

2. Clem and the Check

Air Date: 1953-09-29

3. Appleby's Cocktail Party

Air Date: 1953-10-06

4. The Nervous Tenor's Auction

Air Date: 1953-10-13

5. Hobo's Dilemma

Air Date: 1953-10-20

6. Appleby the Dreamer

Air Date: 1953-10-27

7. Freddie's Masquerade

Air Date: 1953-11-03

8. The Marriage Broker

Air Date: 1953-11-10

9. How to Be Happily Married

Air Date: 1953-11-17

10. California Gold Rush

Air Date: 1953-11-24

11. Flugelmeyer's Secret Formula

Air Date: 1953-12-01

12. Dr. Schlepper

Air Date: 1953-12-08

13. It Happened at the Stationhouse

Air Date: 1953-12-15

14. Christmas With the Skeltons

Air Date: 1953-12-22

15. The Great White Hunter

Air Date: 1953-12-29

16. Accidents Will Happen

Air Date: 1954-01-05

17. A Voyage to Paris

Air Date: 1954-01-12

18. What Fathers Should Know

Air Date: 1954-01-19

19. Clem the Campus Soda Jerk

Air Date: 1954-01-26

20. The Train Trip

Air Date: 1954-02-02

21. Deadeye at the Golden Nugget

Air Date: 1954-02-09

Ed Sullivan takes over for Red Skelton and introduces several celebrity guests before interviewing famous boxer Cauliflower McPugg. Red's cowboy character Deadeye plays cards and gets in trouble at the Golden Nugget saloon.

22. Captain Hook

Air Date: 1954-02-16

23. Cave-Man Marriage

Air Date: 1954-02-23

24. Toots Shor Show

Air Date: 1954-03-02

25. Uncle Sam Wants You

Air Date: 1954-03-09

26. Sherlock Holmes Satire

Air Date: 1954-03-16

27. Skelton Awards

Air Date: 1954-03-23

28. King Putt

Air Date: 1954-03-30

29. Freddie's Picnic

Air Date: 1954-04-06

30. Going to Work

Air Date: 1954-04-13

31. Clem in the South Pacific

Air Date: 1954-04-20

32. Willie I-Q

Air Date: 1954-04-27

33. The Referee

Air Date: 1954-05-04

34. Prince Valiant

Air Date: 1954-05-11

35. The Artist's Dilemma

Air Date: 1954-05-18

36. Clem Goes to Mexico

Air Date: 1954-05-25

37. Mississippi Showboat

Air Date: 1954-06-01

38. Freddie Goes to the Cleaners

Air Date: 1954-06-08

39. Dial 'B' for Brush

Air Date: 1954-06-15

1. Clem the Rookie

Air Date: 1954-09-21

2. Orson Bean

Air Date: 1954-09-28

3. What Goes Down, Must Come Up

Air Date: 1954-10-05

4. Columbus and Isabella

Air Date: 1954-10-12

5. Romeo and Juliet

Air Date: 1954-10-19

6. The Andrews Sisters

Air Date: 1954-10-26

7. Campaign

Air Date: 1954-11-02

8. Clem Goes to College

Air Date: 1954-11-09

9. He Made Good in the City

Air Date: 1954-11-16

10. USO Thanksgiving

Air Date: 1954-11-23

11. Chicago Red in Las Vegas

Air Date: 1954-11-30

12. The Art Show

Air Date: 1954-12-07

13. Tribute to Guys and Dolls/The Stuntman

Air Date: 1954-12-14

14. The Unwanted Christmas Tree

Air Date: 1954-12-21

15. John Calvert

Air Date: 1954-12-28

16. The Smog Czar

Air Date: 1955-01-04

17. Skelton Goes Back to School

Air Date: 1955-01-11

18. Honeymooners Spoof

Air Date: 1955-01-18

19. Love Thy Neighbor

Air Date: 1955-01-25

20. Queen of Mars

Air Date: 1955-02-01

21. Red Goes to Barber College

Air Date: 1955-02-08

22. Smithers & McGurk visit Persian Shah

Air Date: 1955-02-15

23. Seach for Uranium

Air Date: 1955-02-22

24. Insomnia

Air Date: 1955-03-01

25. Look Magazine Movie Awards Show

Air Date: 1955-03-08

26. Red Goes to Prison

Air Date: 1955-03-15

27. At the Movies

Air Date: 1955-03-22

28. Sleeping Beauty Ballet

Air Date: 1955-03-29

29. Hospital Mix-Up

Air Date: 1955-04-05

30. Smithers & McGurk Western Café

Air Date: 1955-04-12

31. South American Beauty Contest

Air Date: 1955-04-19

32. Drama Coach

Air Date: 1955-04-26

33. Smithers & McGurk Go to Australia

Air Date: 1955-05-03

34. Red Becomes a Prop Man

Air Date: 1955-05-10

35. Sheik Slave Market

Air Date: 1955-05-17

36. Tippy Toe Dancing School for Teenagers

Air Date: 1955-05-24

37. Red Goes to Japan

Air Date: 1955-05-31

38. Rose Marie

Air Date: 1955-06-07

39. Freddy the Freeloader's Past

Air Date: 1955-06-14

1. The Super Chef

Air Date: 1955-09-26

2. Money, Money, Money

Air Date: 1955-10-04

3. New York Tour

Air Date: 1955-10-11

4. Shore Leave

Air Date: 1955-10-18

5. Cinderfella

Air Date: 1955-10-25

6. Halloween Show

Air Date: 1955-11-01

7. The Sweetie of Tahiti

Air Date: 1955-11-08

8. TV vs. the Electric Guitar

Air Date: 1955-11-15

9. Fish Peddler's Thanksgiving

Air Date: 1955-11-22

10. Phantom of the Ballet

Air Date: 1955-11-29

11. Deadeye vs. the Lone Ranger

Air Date: 1955-12-06

12. The Cop and the Anthem

Air Date: 1955-12-20

13. Cookie and Zsa Zsa Gabor

Air Date: 1955-12-27

14. Old Vaudeville

Air Date: 1956-01-03

15. Willie Resists Girls

Air Date: 1956-01-10

16. The Sculpture Show

Air Date: 1956-01-17

17. Freddie on a Luxury Liner or Bum Overboard

Air Date: 1956-01-24

18. Lamb to Lion

Air Date: 1956-01-31

19. The Election Show

Air Date: 1956-02-07

20. Valentine's Day Double Date (Original)

Air Date: 1956-02-14

21. Salesman vs. Mad Scientist or A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

Air Date: 1956-02-21

22. Cookie Returns or Cookie in Korea

Air Date: 1956-02-28

23. The Hypnotist

Air Date: 1956-06-26

24. Clem's Feud

Air Date: 1956-03-27

25. Freddie vs. the Freeway

Air Date: 1956-03-20

26. Dance Marathon

Air Date: 1956-04-03

27. Stages of Evolution

Air Date: 1956-04-17

28. Robin Hood

Air Date: 1956-04-24

29. Hollywood Plumber

Air Date: 1956-05-01

30. Baker Man

Air Date: 1956-05-08

31. Desert Island

Air Date: 1956-05-15

Red Skelton and Jamie Farr appear as navy men under the watchful eye of Buster Crabbe. Skelton and Farr accidentally go overboard in a life boat, and end up marooned on a desert island...or so they think.

32. Stock Wizard

Air Date: 1956-05-22

33. Public Pigeon

Air Date: 1956-05-29

34. The Picnic

Air Date: 1956-06-12

35. The Convention

Air Date: 1956-06-26

36. Pirate Show

Air Date: 1956-06-05

38. County Fair or Minister of Agriculture

Air Date: 1956-06-19

1. McPugg's Comeback

Air Date: 1956-10-02

2. Olympic Clem

Air Date: 1956-10-09

3. Bolivar's Song or Shagnasty Composer

Air Date: 1956-10-16

4. Freddie Votes or Election Fiddle

Air Date: 1956-10-23

5. The Magic Shoes

Air Date: 1956-10-30

6. Appleby's Millions

Air Date: 1956-11-13

7. The First Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims

Air Date: 1956-11-20

In this spoof of the Miles Standish-John Alden-Priscilla Mullins legend, Red plays John in a broad, farcical manner, given to slapstick clumsiness and cigar chomping anachronisms. The filmed quality of the show cuts out most of the spontaneous gags and asides expected of Red.

8. The Atomic Sailor

Air Date: 1956-11-27

9. Clem Goes Hollywood

Air Date: 1956-12-04

10. San Fernando Goes Straight

Air Date: 1956-12-18

12. Resolutions

Air Date: 1957-01-01

13. Freddie the Count

Air Date: 1957-01-08

14. The Sailor Takes a Wife

Air Date: 1957-01-15

15. Freddie, the Contest Winner

Air Date: 1957-01-22

16. Cauliflower Wrestler

Air Date: 1957-01-29

17. Freddie Finds a Headlight

Air Date: 1957-02-05

18. Reporter Clem

Air Date: 1957-02-12

19. Appleby Goes Abroad

Air Date: 1957-02-19

20. San Fernando's Showboat

Air Date: 1957-02-26

21. Clem Strikes Oil

Air Date: 1957-03-05

The Kadiddlehopper's at first dismayed at the black gooey stuff on their land learn that it is worth a fortune with which Clem uses to create a financial empire that employs to make Daisy June a star so she will marry him.

22. Freddie's Surprise Party

Air Date: 1957-03-12

23. Appleby's House

Air Date: 1957-03-19

24. Clem's Fish Market

Air Date: 1957-03-26

25. Romeo and Juliet

Air Date: 1957-04-02

26. Robinson Crusoe

Air Date: 1957-04-09

27. Mean Widdle Girl

Air Date: 1957-04-16

28. Bolivar's Double

Air Date: 1957-04-23

29. Cookie in Cuba

Air Date: 1957-04-30

30. Freddie and the Happy Helper

Air Date: 1957-05-07

31. Clem's Inheritance

Air Date: 1957-05-14

32. Cookie in Cuba II

Air Date: 1957-05-21

33. Medicine Man

Air Date: 1957-05-28

34. Freddie the Star

Air Date: 1957-06-04

35. Cookie's Secret

Air Date: 1957-06-11

36. Appleby's Invention

Air Date: 1957-06-18

37. Hollywood Agent

Air Date: 1957-06-25

1. Freddie and the Brooklyn Dodgers

Air Date: 1957-10-01

2. Clem in New York

Air Date: 1957-10-08

3. Appleby's Cake

Air Date: 1957-10-15

4. Cesar Romero Hires Deadeye for TV Series

Air Date: 1957-10-22

5. Cookie and the Satellite

Air Date: 1957-10-29

6. Appleby's Patio

Air Date: 1957-11-05

7. Monsieur Clem's Fashions

Air Date: 1957-11-12

8. Bolivar the Repairman

Air Date: 1957-11-19

9. Freddie's Thanksgiving

Air Date: 1957-11-26

10. The Round Table

Air Date: 1957-12-10

11. Deadeye the Outlaw

Air Date: 1957-12-17

12. The Third Wish

Air Date: 1957-12-24

13. Willie on the Wagon

Air Date: 1957-12-31

14. Appleby and the Ape

Air Date: 1958-01-07

15. Calypso Clem

Air Date: 1958-01-14

16. Freddie Finds a Fortune

Air Date: 1958-01-28

17. Bolivar's Beauty Salon

Air Date: 1958-02-04

18. Clem the Bullfighter

Air Date: 1958-02-11

19. Appleby's Garage

Air Date: 1958-02-14

20. Freddie's New Home

Air Date: 1958-02-25

21. Clem the Dentist

Air Date: 1958-03-04

22. Appleby and the Ape II

Air Date: 1958-03-11

23. Cauliflower's Hamburger Stand

Air Date: 1958-03-18

24. Clem, the Photographer

Air Date: 1958-03-25

25. San Fernando's Filibuster

Air Date: 1958-04-01

26. Bolivar Gets Amnesia

Air Date: 1958-04-08

27. Episode 27

Air Date: 1958-04-15

28. The Kadiddlehopper Mural or Clem the Artist

Air Date: 1958-04-22

Clem Kadiddlehopper paints what he considers a masterpiece, and wants to exhibit it in New York.

29. Appleby's Midnight Ride

Air Date: 1958-04-29

30. San Fernando's Singing Sensation

Air Date: 1958-05-06

31. Friends of Red Skelton Variety Show

Air Date: 1958-05-13

32. Appleby Wins a House

Air Date: 1958-05-27

33. Freddie and the Millionare

Air Date: 1958-06-03

34. Cauliflower's Reducing Salon

Air Date: 1958-06-17

35. Bolivar and the Lost Patrol

Air Date: 1958-06-24

Three U.S. Navy men have been marooned on a small South Pacific island since World War II and don't know whether or not the war is over. On the other side of the island is a group of Japanese soldiers that is in the same predicament. Eventually, the two confused groups meet.

1. Freddie and the World Series Ticket

Air Date: 1958-09-30

2. Clem and the Satellite

Air Date: 1958-10-07

3. Bolivar the Quiz Champion

Air Date: 1958-10-14

4. Freddie and the Election

Air Date: 1958-10-21

5. Clem Sings

Air Date: 1958-10-28

6. Appleby Goes Hunting

Air Date: 1958-11-11

7. Deadeye the Indian Scout

Air Date: 1958-11-18

8. Freddie and the Turkey Dinner

Air Date: 1958-11-26

9. Bolivar's Double Date

Air Date: 1958-12-02

10. Clem the Interior Decorator

Air Date: 1958-12-16

11. San Fernando in Alaska

Air Date: 1959-01-06

Crooked Mayor San Fernando runs off with his accomplice Ruby (Adams)to Alaska, the one state they haven't hidden in yet, where they set up business again with their usual graft, corruption, and hilarity.

12. Freddie in the Black Box

Air Date: 1959-01-13

13. Bashful Clem

Air Date: 1959-01-20

14. Appleby and the Ice Man

Air Date: 1959-01-27

15. Cauliflower and the Kidnappers

Air Date: 1959-02-03

16. Clem and the Merry Widow

Air Date: 1959-02-10

17. Freddie Gets a Job

Air Date: 1959-02-17

18. Clem in Miami Beach

Air Date: 1959-03-03

19. San Fernando Loses the Dixie Queen

Air Date: 1959-03-10

20. Humphrey School of Dramatic Arts

Air Date: 1959-03-17

21. Freddie and the Public Enemy

Air Date: 1959-03-24

22. Appleby's Band

Air Date: 1959-03-31

23. Cookie in Japan

Air Date: 1959-04-07

24. Deadeye and the Rustlers

Air Date: 1959-04-14

25. Appleby's Formula

Air Date: 1959-04-21

26. Freddie's Mothers Day

Air Date: 1959-05-05

27. Rapid Growth

Air Date: 1959-05-12

28. San Fernando the Swami

Air Date: 1959-05-19

29. Appleby the Witness

Air Date: 1959-05-26

30. Freddie the Singer

Air Date: 1959-06-02

31. Cauliflower In Hollywood

Air Date: 1959-06-23

1. Freddie's Beat Shack

Air Date: 1959-09-29

2. Clem's General Store

Air Date: 1959-10-06

3. Appleby's Bird Woman

Air Date: 1959-10-13

4. Deadeye and the Girl Bandit

Air Date: 1959-10-20

5. San Fernando's Treasure Hunt

Air Date: 1959-11-03

6. Freddie and Fabian

Air Date: 1959-11-10

7. Appleby the Weatherman

Air Date: 1959-11-17

8. San Fernando's Thanksgiving

Air Date: 1959-11-24

9. Appleby: The Big Producer

Air Date: 1959-12-01

10. Bolivar the Songwriter

Air Date: 1959-12-08

11. Clem the Mailman

Air Date: 1959-12-15

12. Deadeye Turns in His Badge

Air Date: 1959-12-29

13. Clem the Disc Jockey

Air Date: 1960-01-05

14. Clem Kadiddlehopper in Dog Patch

Air Date: 1960-01-12

15. Appleby the Muscle Man

Air Date: 1960-01-19

16. Cauliflower and the Syndicate

Air Date: 1960-01-26

17. San Fernando and Fabian

Air Date: 1960-02-02

18. Appleby's Boat

Air Date: 1960-02-16

19. Bolivar and the Roaring Twenties

Air Date: 1960-02-23

20. Skelton and Mae West

Air Date: 1960-03-01

21. Deadeye the Blacksmith

Air Date: 1960-03-09

22. Freddie's Masterpiece

Air Date: 1960-03-15

23. Clem the Private Eye or 77 Moonset Strip

Air Date: 1960-03-22

24. San Fernando for Governor

Air Date: 1960-03-29

25. Freddie's Millions

Air Date: 1960-04-05

26. Clem's Fountain of Youth

Air Date: 1960-04-12

27. Super-Cauliflower

Air Date: 1960-04-19

28. San Fernando's Marriage Mill

Air Date: 1960-04-26

29. Freddie in Las Vegas

Air Date: 1960-05-03

30. Clem and the Beanstalk

Air Date: 1960-05-24

31. Appleby's Fallout Shelter

Air Date: 1960-06-07

32. The Many Skeltons

Air Date: 1960-06-14

1. Laughter, the Universal Language

Air Date: 1960-09-27

2. Appleby's Predictions

Air Date: 1960-10-04

Appleby predicts the World Series. His wife wants him to predict the presidential election.

3. Clem the Candidate

Air Date: 1960-10-11

Two political party bosses try to come up with a perfect presidential candidate by using a massive "electronic brain".(A Univac) It decides that man would be Clem Kadiddlehopper. The public adores him and he's well on his way toward victory, despite that the brain was shown to be defective. One of the bosses has a dream of what a goof Clem would be in the white house.

4. Deadeye and the Magician

Air Date: 1960-10-18

5. Freddie's Manhattan

Air Date: 1960-10-25

6. San Fernando's Investigating Committee

Air Date: 1960-11-01

7. Appleby's Time Machine

Air Date: 1960-11-15

8. Clem the Animal Psychiatrist

Air Date: 1960-11-29

9. Jose McPugg

Air Date: 1960-12-06

10. The Racine Show

Air Date: 1960-12-27

11. San Fernadocal

Air Date: 1961-01-03

12. Danny Thomas Show

Air Date: 1961-01-10

13. The Garry Moore Show

Air Date: 1961-01-17

14. We're Gonna Have a Party

Air Date: 1961-01-24

15. Pantomime Concert

Air Date: 1961-01-31

16. Ed as Red

Air Date: 1961-02-07

17. Episode 17

Air Date: 1961-02-14

18. Episode 18

Air Date: 1961-02-21

19. Episode 19

Air Date: 1961-02-28

20. Episode 20

Air Date: 1961-03-07

21. Freddie and the Baby

Air Date: 1961-03-14

22. Deadeye and the Alamo

Air Date: 1961-03-28

23. Clem's Theatre

Air Date: 1961-04-04

24. Appleby's Cufflinks

Air Date: 1961-04-11

25. Freddie's Band

Air Date: 1961-04-18

26. Clem the Genius

Air Date: 1961-04-25

27. Appleby's Castle

Air Date: 1961-05-02

28. Cauliflower and the Fight Fix

Air Date: 1961-05-09

29. Freddie's Shipwreck

Air Date: 1961-05-16

30. San Fernando and Herbie

Air Date: 1961-05-23

31. Clem's Watermelons

Air Date: 1961-05-30

32. Appleby's Sleepwalk

Air Date: 1961-06-06

33. Freddie Gets Sick

Air Date: 1961-06-13

34. Candid Clem

Air Date: 1961-06-20

35. Appleby's Remote Control

Air Date: 1961-06-27

1. Clem the Unkissable

Air Date: 1961-09-26

2. Appleby's Marriage License

Air Date: 1961-10-03

3. Freddie's Benefactor

Air Date: 1961-10-10

4. Deadeye and the Gunslinger

Air Date: 1961-10-17

5. Sing Along With Cauliflower

Air Date: 1961-10-24

6. Freddie's Romance

Air Date: 1961-10-31

7. The Almost Late George Appleby

Air Date: 1961-11-07

8. Clem's Other Clem

Air Date: 1961-11-14

9. Once Upon a Turkey

Air Date: 1961-11-21

10. The Great Brain Robbery

Air Date: 1961-11-28

11. Mr. K Goes to College

Air Date: 1961-12-05

12. San Fernando and the Kaaka Maami Island

Air Date: 1961-12-12

13. Freddie and the Yuletide Doll

Air Date: 1961-12-19

14. Appleby's Office Party

Air Date: 1961-12-26

15. Nothing But the Tooth

Air Date: 1962-01-02

16. Freddie, Willing and Able

Air Date: 1962-01-09

17. Appleby's Anniversary

Air Date: 1962-01-16

18. Clem and the Kadiddlehopper Hop

Air Date: 1962-01-23

19. The Many Skeltons in Las Vegas

Air Date: 1962-01-30

20. Freddie and the Landlord

Air Date: 1962-02-13

21. The Iceman Goeth

Air Date: 1962-02-20

22. Calling Dr. Kadiddlehopper

Air Date: 1962-02-27

23. Appleby's Bearded Boarder

Air Date: 1962-03-06

24. The Nine Lives of Freddie

Air Date: 1962-03-13

25. The Bride of Bolivar

Air Date: 1962-03-20

26. Clem and the Dalton Girls

Air Date: 1962-04-10

27. Pantomimic Presentation of a Person's Problems in a Park

Air Date: 1962-04-17

28. How To Think Up A Television Title Without Being Sued

Air Date: 1962-04-24

29. Rock on the Wild Side

Air Date: 1962-05-08

30. Go, Van, Gogh

Air Date: 1962-05-15

31. Best Man Blues

Air Date: 1962-05-22

32. This Goon for Hire

Air Date: 1962-05-29

33. Freddie and the Daily Freeloader

Air Date: 1962-06-12

34. Cauliflower Loses His Birds

Air Date: 1962-06-26

1. Somebody Up There Should Stay There

Air Date: 1962-09-25

2. The Greatest Schmo on Earth

Air Date: 1962-10-02

3. The Mayor of Central Park

Air Date: 1962-10-09

4. The Booze Man of Alcatraz

Air Date: 1962-10-16

5. One Good Intern Deserves Another

Air Date: 1962-10-23

6. Rupert The Stupert

Air Date: 1962-10-30

7. Dial P for Plumber

Air Date: 1962-11-13

8. Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes

Air Date: 1962-11-20

9. March of the Litterbugs

Air Date: 1962-11-27

10. Who Put the Bobby Sox in Mr. Appleby's Chowder?

Air Date: 1962-12-04

11. Once Upon A Flea

Air Date: 1962-12-11

12. How The West Was Lost

Air Date: 1962-12-18

13. Freddie and the Yuletide Doll

Air Date: 1962-12-25

14. Of Mouth and Men

Air Date: 1963-01-01

15. Where There's a Will, There's a Wife

Air Date: 1963-01-08

16. Have Rickshaw, Will Travel

Air Date: 1963-01-15

17. Children Should Be Seen But Not Had

Air Date: 1963-01-22

18. Witness for the Persecution or Half a Lawyer Is Better Than None

Air Date: 1963-01-29

19. Much Ado About Knotting

Air Date: 1963-02-05

20. Red Fails in the Sunset

Air Date: 1963-02-12

21. Advice to the Loveworn

Air Date: 1963-02-19

22. My Friend The Enemy

Air Date: 1963-02-26

23. The Bel Air Haykickers

Air Date: 1963-03-05

24. After the Bald Is Over

Air Date: 1963-03-12

25. Frontier Coward

Air Date: 1963-03-26

26. Come to Me, My Melon-Headed Baby

Air Date: 1963-04-02

27. The Portrait of Dorian Appleby

Air Date: 1963-04-09

28. How Green Was My Money

Air Date: 1963-04-16

29. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Wife

Air Date: 1963-04-30

30. A Midsummer Nut's Dream

Air Date: 1963-05-07

31. Captains Outrageous

Air Date: 1963-05-21

32. Jerk and the Beanstalk

Air Date: 1963-05-28

1. Passion in Pasadena or Love is a Many-Splintered Thing

Air Date: 1963-09-24

2. My Son the Monster

Air Date: 1963-10-01

3. Pop is a Weasel

Air Date: 1963-10-08

4. Bewitched, Bothered and Brainless

Air Date: 1963-10-15

5. Don’t Sit Under the Tombstone with Anybody Else But Me

Air Date: 1963-10-22

6. Get Thee to the Cannery

Air Date: 1963-10-29

7. Do You Take This Woman for You Awful Wedded Wife

Air Date: 1963-11-05

8. It’s So Nice to Have a Louse Around the House

Air Date: 1963-11-12

9. The Bachelor and the Boobyhatcher

Air Date: 1963-11-19

10. Good Night Sour Prince

Air Date: 1963-12-03

11. It’s A Treat To Sell Your Wheat In The Vladivostok Mud

Air Date: 1963-12-10

12. Sing a Song of Sing Sing

Air Date: 1963-12-17

13. The Mouth Shall Rise Again

Air Date: 1963-12-26

14. Will the Real Clara Appleby Please Shut Up or To Tell a Fib

Air Date: 1963-12-31

15. Shrink My Head I’m a Stranger in Paradise or Stroodel and Freudloader-Instant Brainwashers

Air Date: 1964-01-07

16. Sit Down Your Rockin the Vote

Air Date: 1964-01-14

17. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Dump

Air Date: 1964-01-21

18. That’s the Way the Fortune Cookie Crumbles

Air Date: 1964-01-28

19. Cast Your Brat Upon the Water

Air Date: 1964-02-04

20. Lives of a Bungle Lancer

Air Date: 1964-02-11

21. Take Her She’s Mean

Air Date: 1964-02-18

22. How Are Things in Glocca Moron?

Air Date: 1964-02-25

23. On Top of Old Hokey

Air Date: 1964-03-03

24. One Man's Mate Is Another Man's Poison

Air Date: 1964-03-10

25. I Was an S.A.P. for the C.I.A.

Air Date: 1964-03-17

26. Tip Toe Thru the Trash Cans

Air Date: 1964-03-31

27. I Want to Go Where the Wild Goof Goes

Air Date: 1964-04-07

28. The Goon and Six Pence

Air Date: 1964-04-14

29. Keep Tramp Fires Burning

Air Date: 1964-04-21

30. I Came, I Saw, I Conked Her

Air Date: 1964-04-28

31. Heading for Last Roundup

Air Date: 1964-05-05

32. Crime Doesn't Pay (Like It Used To)

Air Date: 1964-05-12

1. Be It Ever So Grumble, There’s No Place Like Home

Air Date: 1964-09-22

2. The Taming of the Schmo

Air Date: 1964-09-29

3. A Man’s Dump Is His Castle

Air Date: 1964-10-06

4. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Harem

Air Date: 1964-10-13

5. The Most Sappy Fella

Air Date: 1964-10-20

6. The Mouth That Roared

Air Date: 1964-10-27

7. Red Skelton in London

Air Date: 1964-11-10

8. A Sap’s Fable or The Great Brain Robbery

Air Date: 1964-11-17

9. The Fastest Goon in the West

Air Date: 1964-11-24

10. Love, Your Tragic Smell Is Everywhere or A Hat Full of Hate

Air Date: 1964-12-01

11. When It’s Teepee Time Down South

Air Date: 1964-12-08

12. Mamma’s Little Monster

Air Date: 1964-12-15

13. The Plight Before Christmas

Air Date: 1964-12-22

14. A Man and His Money Are Soon Parted or A Fool and His Money Are Soon Married

Air Date: 1964-12-29

15. A Bad Man Nowadays Is Hard to Find

Air Date: 1965-01-05

16. Lame Brain for a Day

Air Date: 1965-01-12

17. The Seven Year Wretch

Air Date: 1965-01-19

18. A Creep in the Deep

Air Date: 1965-01-26

19. A Concert in Pantomime

Air Date: 1965-02-02

20. Yellow Belly in a Purple Sage

Air Date: 1965-02-09

21. Brain Go Away

Air Date: 1965-02-16

22. Lookie Lookie Here Comes Crookie

Air Date: 1965-02-23

23. O for Nothing

Air Date: 1965-03-02

24. The Red Skelton Scrapbook

Air Date: 1965-03-09

25. Nuts at Round Table

Air Date: 1965-03-16

26. Panhandle with Care

Air Date: 1965-03-23

27. Sweet Misery of Wife

Air Date: 1965-03-30

28. The Unteachables

Air Date: 1965-04-06

29. Out All Over

Air Date: 1965-04-13

30. The Golden West

Air Date: 1965-04-20

31. Bum Today

Air Date: 1965-04-27

32. More Truth Than Poultry

Air Date: 1965-05-04

1. How Stupid of Cupid

Air Date: 1965-09-14

2. The Fastest Crumb in the West

Air Date: 1965-09-21

3. Loafer, Come Back to Me

Air Date: 1965-09-28

4. The Big Bad Wife

Air Date: 1965-10-05

5. Loco Boy Makes Good

Air Date: 1965-10-12

6. A Taste of Money

Air Date: 1965-10-19

7. Here Comes the Bribe

Air Date: 1965-10-26

8. Hobo a Go Go

Air Date: 1965-11-02

9. Brats in Your Belfry

Air Date: 1965-11-09

10. Goofy Goofy Gander

Air Date: 1965-11-16

11. Somebody Down Here Hates Me

Air Date: 1965-11-30

12. Never on a Bum-Day

Air Date: 1965-12-07

13. A Jerk of All Trades

Air Date: 1965-12-14

14. The Plight Before Christmas

Air Date: 1965-12-21

15. Monotony on the Bounty

Air Date: 1965-12-28

16. When Nut-Hood Was in Flower

Air Date: 1966-01-04

17. Shine On, Harvest Goon

Air Date: 1966-01-11

18. Concert in Pantomime

Air Date: 1966-01-18

19. The Agony and the Nag-Ony

Air Date: 1966-01-25

20. Down the Old Chisholm Trail with the Old Chiseler

Air Date: 1966-02-01

21. Be It Ever So Homely, There’s No Face Like Clem

Air Date: 1966-02-08

22. Half a Loafer Is Better Than None

Air Date: 1966-02-15

23. A Thousand and One Arabian Nuts

Air Date: 1966-02-22

24. Red Skelton Scrapbook

Air Date: 1966-03-01

25. Love at First Fright

Air Date: 1966-03-29

26. Goodbye, Mr. Gyp

Air Date: 1966-04-05

27. The Bum Who Came in from the Cold

Air Date: 1966-04-12

28. Bratman

Air Date: 1966-04-19

29. A Beauty Can Skin You Deep

Air Date: 1966-04-26

30. Our Man Fink

Air Date: 1966-05-03

31. Sweet Smell of Failure

Air Date: 1966-05-10

32. Stupidity: Italian Style

Air Date: 1966-05-17

1. How to Succeed in Loafing Without Really Trying

Air Date: 1966-09-13

2. Eenie Meenie Minee Schmo

Air Date: 1966-09-20

3. Chiseler on the Roof

Air Date: 1966-09-27

4. Much Ado About Nagging

Air Date: 1966-10-04

5. Mother Knows Pest

Air Date: 1966-10-11

6. Land of Bilk and Money

Air Date: 1966-10-18

7. It Happened One Nut

Air Date: 1966-10-25

8. What Did You Do in the Dump, Daddy?

Air Date: 1966-11-01

9. A Gyp Off the Old Block

Air Date: 1966-11-15

10. The Best Money a Sheriff Can Buy

Air Date: 1966-11-22

11. Jerk Be Nimble

Air Date: 1966-11-29

12. Better Dead Than Wed

Air Date: 1966-12-06

13. Cuspidor in the West

Air Date: 1966-12-13

14. The Christmas Spirit

Air Date: 1966-12-20

15. The Taming of the Screw-Loose

Air Date: 1966-12-27

16. In One Head

Air Date: 1967-01-03

17. Freddie’s Heroes

Air Date: 1967-01-10

18. The Fortune Crookie

Air Date: 1967-01-17

19. Absence Makes the Hate Grow Fonder

Air Date: 1967-01-24

20. Sappiness Is Just a Thing Called Clem

Air Date: 1967-01-31

21. Better Living Through Chiseling

Air Date: 1967-02-07

22. A Bottle of Bumb

Air Date: 1967-02-14

23. Not With My Dump You Won’t

Air Date: 1967-02-28

24. Parlor, Bedroom & Wrath

Air Date: 1967-03-07

25. Schnook of Araby

Air Date: 1967-03-14

26. It’s a Treat to Beat a Cheat on the Mississippi Mud

Air Date: 1967-03-21

27. A Bum for All Seasons

Air Date: 1967-03-28

28. Next Time Try the Brain

Air Date: 1967-04-04

29. That Junk Built

Air Date: 1967-04-18

30. Loused in Space

Air Date: 1967-04-25

31. Once Upon a Dunce

Air Date: 1967-05-02

32. The Nag and I

Air Date: 1967-05-09

1. For Better or Worse Like George Appleby Got

Air Date: 1967-09-05

2. The Seven Ages of Man

Air Date: 1967-09-12

3. Saddle Sores on the Old Corral

Air Date: 1967-09-19

4. The Spy with the Leaky Mouth

Air Date: 1967-09-26

5. Where There’s Smoke, There’s a Dragon

Air Date: 1967-10-03

6. A Spy Is a Peeping Tom on Salary

Air Date: 1967-10-10

7. Clothes Make the Bum

Air Date: 1967-10-17

8. A New York Stripper Is Not Always a Steak

Air Date: 1967-10-24

9. Hippie Days Are Here Again

Air Date: 1967-10-31

10. The Bear Was a Barefaced Liar

Air Date: 1967-11-07

11. Climb Upon My Knee, Dummy Boy

Air Date: 1967-11-14

12. Red’s Relatives

Air Date: 1967-11-21

13. Little Old Rainmaker: Me

Air Date: 1967-11-28

14. He Who Steals My Dump Steals Trash

Air Date: 1967-12-05

15. Marriage Is Made in Heaven and Las Vegas

Air Date: 1967-12-12

16. A Christmas Urchin

Air Date: 1967-12-19

17. When East Meets West, You Need a New Compass

Air Date: 1968-01-09

18. Red Skelton One-Man Show

Air Date: 1968-01-16

19. Dial M for Moron

Air Date: 1968-01-23

20. Fairy Tales for Old Children

Air Date: 1968-01-30

21. Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch

Air Date: 1968-02-06

22. Sheriffs Are Bought, Not Made

Air Date: 1968-02-13

23. Cauliflower Ears That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La

Air Date: 1968-02-20

24. United Nations Second Show

Air Date: 1968-02-27

25. I Never Met a Pig I Didn’t Like

Air Date: 1968-03-05

26. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of George Appleby

Air Date: 1968-03-12

27. San Fernando: Man with a Heart of Stolen Gold

Air Date: 1968-03-19

28. The Pied-Eyed Piper

Air Date: 1968-03-26

29. The Love Bug’ll Getcha If You Don’t Use DDT

Air Date: 1968-04-02

30. Episode 30

Air Date: 1968-04-23

31. Rings on Her Fingers Also Go Through Your Nose

Air Date: 1968-04-30

1. He Who Steals My Robot Steals Trash

Air Date: 1968-09-24

2. Guess Whose Dinner Is Coming to Freddie?

Air Date: 1968-10-01

3. Cauliflower Fiddles While Bolivar Burns

Air Date: 1968-10-08

4. The Revenge of Prudence Pennyfeather or Wide Saddles in the Old Corral

Air Date: 1968-10-15

5. A Woman’s a Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Mouth

Air Date: 1968-10-22

6. To Get Married

Air Date: 1968-10-29

7. Necessarily From Mustard

Air Date: 1968-11-12

8. People With Money

Air Date: 1968-11-19

9. And Momma Makes Three

Air Date: 1968-11-19

10. Love Is a Funny Thing

Air Date: 1968-12-03

11. Other Place Closed

Air Date: 1968-12-10

12. Two on the Isle

Air Date: 1968-12-17

13. A Christmas Story: 1777

Air Date: 1968-12-24

14. Should See a Doctor

Air Date: 1968-12-31

15. He Lost the East

Air Date: 1969-01-07

16. The Pledge of Allegiance

Air Date: 1969-01-14

17. Wooden Gift Horse

Air Date: 1969-01-21

18. Beauty is Only Skin Deep Unless You’re a Banana

Air Date: 1969-01-28

19. Why Show Must Go On

Air Date: 1969-02-04

20. Beneath This Ragged Shirt

Air Date: 1969-02-11

21. Ed Wynn Tribute

Air Date: 1969-02-18

22. Deadeye Goes to School

Air Date: 1969-02-25

23. Kingdom of Iodine

Air Date: 1969-03-04

24. Give a Man Enough Rope

Air Date: 1969-03-11

25. If at First You Don’t Succeed, Forget It

Air Date: 1969-03-18

26. Vagrancy is Just Loitering that Takes a Little Longer

Air Date: 1969-03-25

27. Uneasy Lies the Neck that Wears the Noose

Air Date: 1969-04-01

28. Button Up Your Overcoat: You Forgot Your Pants

Air Date: 1969-04-08

29. Will the Real Robin Hood Please Fall Out of the Tree?

Air Date: 1969-04-15

30. You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But He’ll Go by Himself to Scotch

Air Date: 1969-04-22

31. The Boston Pops Show

Air Date: 1969-04-29

1. Pop the Astronaut

Air Date: 1969-09-23

2. The Happening That Happened in Taxes

Air Date: 1969-09-30

3. You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man – But You Can Try

Air Date: 1969-10-07

4. The Traveling Saleslady and the Farmer’s Son

Air Date: 1969-10-14

5. Willie Lump Lump’s Birthday

Air Date: 1969-10-21

6. John Wayne’s 40th Anniversary or Hominy and True Grits

Air Date: 1969-10-28

7. The Emergency Case or See Your Doctor Once a Year Even If It Kills You

Air Date: 1969-11-04

8. Alaska or an Icicle Built for Two

Air Date: 1969-11-11

9. Singing Waiters, Hillbilly Songwriters

Air Date: 1969-11-18

10. There’s One Thing Money Won’t Buy and Someday We’ll Find Out What It Is

Air Date: 1969-11-25

11. It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost – Much Better

Air Date: 1969-12-02

12. He Wanted to Be a Square Shooter But He Found That his Barrel was Round

Air Date: 1969-12-09

13. The Son of Oliver Twist or Junior Is Just a Little Dickens

Air Date: 1969-12-16

14. Episode 14

Air Date: 1969-12-23

15. Crime Doesn’t Pay But It’s Tax Free

Air Date: 1969-12-30

16. You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country If You Promise Not to Bring Him Back

Air Date: 1970-01-06

17. If Marriages Are Made in Heaven, Why Do They Call It Heaven?

Air Date: 1970-01-13

18. There’s No Business Like Show Business, But When There’s No Business, Show Business Goes Out of Business Just Like Any Other Business

Air Date: 1970-01-20

19. Charity Begins at Home, But Nowadays, Who Can Afford a Home?

Air Date: 1970-01-27

20. Is This Anyway to Ruin an Airline?

Air Date: 1970-02-03

21. When East Meets West, You’ve Sure Got a Skinny Country

Air Date: 1970-02-10

22. People Who Like People Are Cannibals

Air Date: 1970-02-17

23. The Three Musketeers Ride Again, Those Ding-Dong Daddies from Dumas

Air Date: 1970-02-24

24. Bill Bailey Must Have Been Married, That’s Why He Never Came Home

Air Date: 1970-03-03

25. Blood Is Thicker Than Water and Harder to Shave With

Air Date: 1970-03-10

26. He Died with His Boots on Cause He Had Cold Feet to Start or He Died with His Boots Off, That’s Why He Stubbed His Toe

Air Date: 1970-03-17

27. San Fernando’s Spy School or How to Make a Possible Mission Impossible

Air Date: 1970-03-24

28. Be It Ever So Crumbled, There Is No Place Like Home

Air Date: 1970-03-31

29. Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make: So They Added Iron Bars

Air Date: 1970-04-07

1. The Magic Act

Air Date: 1970-09-14

Introduced by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew Guest: Jerry Lewis Musical Highlights: Robin Wilson (regular) sings "For Once in My Life." "The Silent Spot": Silent Spot pantomime segment with Jerry Lewis.

2. Freddie's Desperate Hour

Air Date: 1970-09-21

Introduced by Dean Martin Guests: Raymond Burr (Ironside) Barbara Anderson (Officer Eve Whitfield in Ironside) Main Comedy Sketch: "Freddie's Desperate Hour" An escaped convict (Raymond) and his moll (Barbara) hide out in the City Dump shack inhabited by Freddie the Freeloader (Red). "The Silent Spot" (no details)

3. Superman and Son

Air Date: 1970-09-28

Introduced by Jack Benny Guest: Robert Wagner Main Comedy Sketch: Super-hero Colossal Man (Red) insists that his wimpy son (Robert Wagner) take over the family business. Emmaline Henry also appears as "Mr. Man." "The Silent Spot" George Appleby (Red) has a run-in with a tough guy.

4. Clem’s Witness

Air Date: 1970-10-05

Introduced by Johnny Carson (received his first big network-TV break by subbing for Red Skelton way back in 1954) Guest: Mike Connors (Mannix) Main Comedy Sketch: Clumsy Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) is hired to protect federal witness Mike Connors. Cashing in on his Mannix image, Mike also gives Red advice on becoming a private eye. Musical Highlights: Robin Wilson (regular) sings "I've Gotta Be Me". "The Silent Spot" A mouse (Red) tries to steal a piece of cheese from a trap.

5. The Bad Guys and the Good Girls

Air Date: 1970-10-12

Guest: Walter Brennan Main Comedy Sketch: In a takeoff of High Noon, Sheriff Deadeye (Red Skelton) faces a showdown with Sheriff Hawkeye (Walter Brennan). On a more serious note, Red reads his own poem about being a grandparent (his daughter Valentina had presented him with a granddaughter some three months before this program aired). "The Silent Spot" Two outdoorsmen (Red, Jan Arvan) duke it out at a campsite.

6. The Census Taker

Air Date: 1970-10-19

Guest: Gene Barry (one of the three rotating stars on NBC's The Name of the Game) Main Comedy Sketch: Census taker Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) finds himself in the middle of a domestic quarrel. "The Silent Spot" Red plays a taxidermist saddled with a contentious mother-in-law.

7. Hiring the Secretary

Air Date: 1970-10-26

Guest: Van Johnson Main Comedy Sketch: An Executive (Van Johnson) decides that hobo Freddie the Freeloader (Red) is the ideal person to locate a responsible secretary. Red delivers a monologue about trick-or-treating "The Silent Spot" Red plays a man pestered by ghoulies and ghosties.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 1970-11-02

9. A True Friend

Air Date: 1970-11-09

Main Comedy Sketch: George Appleby (Red) is hoping to prove to wife Clara (Emmaline Henry) that he's the head of the household, timid George tries to get rid of annoying house guest Little Willie (Dan Blocker). "The Silent Spot" Red pantomimically portrays a drunken barber.

10. The Football Agent

Air Date: 1970-11-16

Guest: Godfrey Cambridge * Main Comedy Sketch: San Fernando Red (Skelton) appoints himself manager of flamboyant football star Joe Broadway (Godfrey Cambridge). "The Silent Spot" Diamond Jim Grady (Skelton) goes dining in a plush New York restaurant.

11. Humperdoo’s Monster

Air Date: 1970-11-23

Guest: Mickey Rooney Main Comedy Sketch: Red Skelton introduces a new character: Absent-minded professor Ludwick Von Humperdoo, "the world's oldest youngters." A a government agent (Mickey Rooney) is assigned to check out Von Humperdoo's latest invention. "The Silent Spot" A house detective (Skelton) tries to ferret out a crook from among three likely suspects.

12. The Yacht Club

Air Date: 1970-12-07

Guest: Michael Landon (Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza) Main Comedy Sketch: "The Richest boy in the world" (Michael Landon), is ripe for plucking by con artist supreme San Fernando Red (Skelton). "The Silent Spot" Skelton reprises his curmudgeonly character "Mr. Haight", who herein declares war on kids. Note: This episode was originally scheduled to air on 02-Nov-1970

13. Stagecoach Hijack

Air Date: 1970-12-14

Guest: Telly Savalas Main Comedy Sketch: "The Stagecoach Hijack". Sheriff Deadeye (Skelton) suspects that a bald-headed stranger (Telly Savalas) is the leader of an outlaw gang. The Silent Spot: "The Gift of Giving" A shabby old man (Skelton) finds a wallet.

14. The Red Skelton Christmas Show

Air Date: 1970-12-21

Guest: Leslie Nielsen Main Comedy Sketch: written by Red Skelton A duty-bound cop (Leslie Nielsen) arrests hobo Freddie the Freeloader (Skelton) for selling chestnuts without a license. But when the cop finds out that Freddie is trying to raise money for a homeless orphan, he has a change of heart. "The Silent Spot" (no details)

15. Junior and Sunday Morning

Air Date: 1971-01-04

Guest: Audrey Meadows Main Comedy Sketch: Mean Widdle Kid, Junior Cavendish (Skelton) drives his mom (Audrey Meadows) crazy during an otherwise peaceful Sunday morning. "The Silent Spot" An old man (Skelton) recalls a youthful romance.

16. Humperdoo's Little Prescription

Air Date: 1971-01-11

Guests: Jill St. John Main Comedy Sketch: A sexy spy (Jill St. John) tries to steal a new secret formula concocted by Ludwick Von Humperdoo (Red Skelton). Series regular Billy Barty appears as the "shrunken" Ludwick. "The Silent Spot" A man (Skelton) nurses a whopper of a hangover after his bachelor party.

17. Instant Marriage Mill

Air Date: 1971-01-18

Guests: Chad Everett, Cass Elliot Main Comedy Sketch: A crooked marriage broker San Fernando Red (Skelton) matches a bachelor (Chad Everett) with a bachelorette (Mama Cass). "The Silent Spot" Skelton's trained-flea act is undermined by a passing dog.

18. The Auction

Air Date: 1971-01-25

Guest: James Drury (The Virginian) Main Comedy Sketch: A county supervisor (James Drury) encounters unforeseen difficulties as he tries to auction off the Clem Kadiddlehopper farm. "The Silent Spot" A nervous TV repairman (Skelton) fends off an amorous housewife (series regular Chanin Hale).

19. Freddie's Country Home

Air Date: 1971-02-01

Guests: Eva Gabor (Green Acres); Wally Cox Main Comedy Sketch: A philanthropist (Eva Gabor) wants to bestow one million dollars upon bums Freddie the Freeloader (Skelton) and Muggsy (Wally Cox). "The Silent Spot" Skelton plays a rotten chef at a greasy-spoon diner.

20. The Castaways

Air Date: 1971-02-08

Guest: Vincent Price Main Comedy Sketch: A fastidious gourmet Claude Casserole (Vincent Price) is marooned on a desert island with dimwitted Clem Kadiddlehopper (Skelton). "The Silent Spot" A prison inmate (Skelton) prefers life in jail to the nagging of his wife (series regular Peggy Rhea).

21. The Garage Sale

Air Date: 1971-02-15

Guest: Martha Raye Main Comedy Sketch: "The Garage Sale." There's heck to pay when George Appleby (Skelton) sells the old guitar in which his wife Clara (Martha Raye) has hidden their live savings. "The Silent Spot" Skelton plays a stockboy in a teddy-bear factory.

22. Humperdoo's Magic Tire

Air Date: 1971-02-22

Guest: George Gobel Main Comedy Sketch: Professor Ludwick Von Humperdoo (Skelton) invents a cement tire, much to the dismay of millionaire tire manufacturer Tom Treadwell (George Gobel). "The Silent Spot" A sailor (Skelton) tries to pick up a cute blonde (series regular Chanin Hale).

23. The Sheriff Hater

Air Date: 1971-03-01

Guest: Phyllis Diller Main Comedy Sketch: Slow-draw Sheriff Deadeye (Skelton) is terrorized by a female fugitive killer (Phyllis Diller). "The Silent Spot" A satire on computer dating (still a relatively new concept in 1971!)

24. The Candidate's Director

Air Date: 1971-03-08

Guest: Tony Randall; Regulars: The Burgundy Street Singers Main Comedy Sketch: A TV director (Tony Randall), appoints himself image consultant to corrupt politician San Fernando Red (Skelton). Musical Highlight: The Burgundy Street Singers (series regulars) perform "Rainmaker." "The Silent Spot": A toothache victim (Skelton) is terrified of his dentist (series regular Jan Arvan). T

25. Copperside

Air Date: 1971-03-15

Guest: Sebastian Cabot; Regulars: The Burgundy Street Singers Main Comedy Sketch: A spoof of the TV series Ironside. A wheelchair-bound private detective (Sebastian Cabot) is forced to put his life in the hands of clumsy assistant Clem Kadiddlehopper (Skelton). Musical Highlight: The Burgundy Street Singers (series regulars) perform "Let's Get Together." "The Silent Spot": Skelton plays a butterfingered race-car mechanic during a championship race.

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Rating

7.4/10

Release Date

1951-09-30

Episodes

672 (20 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Videos

Production Companies

Van Bernard Productions

CBS

CBS

Sursum Corporation

NBC

NBC