Armed Forces hitch hiking.
Featuring Cauliflower McPugg, Willie Lump-Lump
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump
Clem Kaddlehopper, Cauliflower McPugg
Clem Kaddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump, Cauliflower McPugg
With Bob Hope
Sherrif Deadeye
Clem selling Christmas Trees.
With Georgis, Valentina and Richard Skelton. Featuring;Clem Kaddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump, Cauliflower McPugg
Clem Kaddlehopper
Cauliflower McPugg, Weepy Numbskull
Clem Kaddlehopper, Cauliflower McPugg,
Willie Lump-Lump, Cauliflower McPugg
Willie Lump-Lump, Sherrif Deadeye
Opening: Reactions to a prizefight. BBC. Clem ""Pedestrian Polo"". Willie ""How to Make a Salad""
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper
Featuring Willie Lump-Lump, Cauliflower McPugg
Featuring Willie Lump-Lump, San Fernando Red
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Sherrif Deadeye
Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Cauliflower McPugg. Guest stars: Benny Rubin and Kam Tong.
Mother's Day Show
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump, Cauliflower McPugg
Featuring Sherrif Deadeye
Featuring Cauliflower McPugg, Weepy Numbskull
Father Day's Show
Red does jokes that he couldn't fit into previous shows.
Featuring Willie Lump-Lump, Cauliflower McPugg
Featuring Sherrif Deadeye, Weepy Numbskull
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Lord Beaverhead
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, San Fernando Red
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Cauliflower McPugg
ThanksGiving Show Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Weepy Numbskull
Charles Bronson guest stars with Cauliflower McPugg. The Sportsmen sing.
Opening: Theater lobby. Dance: The Step Brothers "The Sultan" An Arabian night. (Tide ad) "The Bums Rush" Freddie tries to get into a Pool Hall. Note: Freddie has a school friend, Bo Roos. Freddie is dressed in a pin striped suit.
Opening: Mud slides, "Little Red Walking Hood" Mime: Willie returns home & cooks breakfast. "Drug Store". The "Clean Fighter" McPugg (Tide ad). "Parking and Sparking"
Featuring Willie Lump-Lump,
Featuring Willie Lump-Lump, Sherrif Deadeye
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump, Pitchman Pete
Featuring San Fernando Red George Appleby
Featuring Cauliflower McPugg, Freedie the Freeloader
Featuring Sherrif Deadeye, George Appleby
Featuring Clem Kaddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump
Featuring Cauliflower McPugg
Featuring Freedie the Freeloader, Lord Beaverhead
Featuring Freedie the Freeloader, George Appleby
Featuring Willie Lump-Lump, San Fernando Red, Freedie the Freeloader,
Featuring Cauliflower McPugg, Sherrif Deadeye
Featuring Willie Lump-Lump
Featuring Cauliflower McPugg, Lord Beaverhead
Featuring George Appleby
Red plays San Fernando Red. Guest Stars: Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane.
It's Christmas Eve and the snow is falling thick and fast. Muggsy tries to convince Freddie the Freeloader to hop a freight train bound for Florida with him, but Freddie has other ideas. He plans to commit a minor crime and get himself sentenced to the county jail. With any luck, he'll be incarcerated in time to hang his Christmas stocking next to the other inmates'. Time after time, Freddie's plans are thwarted. The Maitre D at a fancy restaurant is convinced Freddie's a famous millionaire in disguise and won't charge him for his meal. Freddie tries to steal a bracelet from a jewelry store, but it falls through his pocket onto the floor. His attempt to assault a police officer fails when he slips on the proverbial banana peel. Frustrated and freezing Freddie walks in front of a church holding a Christmas Eve service and, listening to the uplifting music, decides that he's not too old to start life anew...
Guest star Mary McCarty returns to share in their vaudevillian style fun.
Red comes up with a formula for getting rid of all the smog in L.A. --- which gets the attention of gangster Mr. Lasagna. This episode has been released on DVD
Red finds a hobby.
Red is joined by guest stars Edmond O'Brian and Jack Klugman.
Red is join by guest stars Barbara Ruick, Hans Conreid, and Jack Klugman.
This rare episode of "The Red Skelton Show" finds Red servering as the Master of ceremonies for an award show Presented by the era's most popular magazines. This fasinating curiosity features appearances by some of Hollywood's greatest legends, including Alfred Hitchcock, Judy Garland, Jack Lemmon and Walt Disney.
Guest star Jack Klugman returns as Red goes to prison to do research on a movie role.
Guest star Mary McCarty is back as Smithers And McGurk return for some more fun filled laughs.
Red stirs up fun at a charity bazaar. Guest stars: Margaret Whiting and Lynn Bari.
Mary Meade French guest stars as Red goes to the hospital.
Returning to the show once again is Mary McCarty who's unique chemistry with Red is undeniable.
In Mary McCarty last guest starring appearance on the show, she and Red say goodbye to their beloved characters, Smithers and McGurk, in hilarious fashion. Featuring a sidesplittingly funny role for a young Johnny Carson as a game show host.
Red, playing a leading man who can't remember his lines, switches places with the prop man and finds that his new job isn't any easier. Guest Star: Virginia Field.
When a movie studio can't find an actor to go to a dangerous shooting location, they trick Red into the role.
Tippy Toe Dancing School for Teenagers
Red goes to Japan to sign a new singing sensation. Guest star: Shirley Yamaguchi.
Looking for a chiropractor, Red accidentally finds himself at a dance studio where special guest Rose Marie ropes him into performing with her much younger students.
In the 4th season's finale, Red tell the backstory of one of his most famous characters, Freddie The Freeloader.
Red stars as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Freddie The Freeloader. Guest Star: Jackie Gleason.
Red stars as Bolivar Shagnasty. Guest Star: Nancy Walker.
Red stars alongside one of his comedy heroes, Ed Wynn, in a uproariously funny take on Cinderella.
Guest Star Virginia Gray. Willie Lump Lump's wife tell a contractor why she made a special room to cure Willie from drinking.
Red stars as Clem Kadiddlehopper. Guest Star: Lucille Norman.
Red stars as Bolivar Shagnasty. Guest Star: Nancy Walker.
Red stars as Clem Kadiddlehopper. Guest Star: Peter Lorre.
Red stars as Sheriff Deadeye alongside the real Kit Carson (Bill Williams) in order to make a child's holiday wish come true.
"Cop and the Anthem", Adapted from the O'Henry story. Freddie the Freeloader (Red) and his pal Muggsy (Allen Jenkins) are awfully cold so Muggsy takes off for Florida. But Freddie decides to spend the Yuletide season in jail - if he can get arrested
Red is a member of a struggling Barbershop Quartet along with guest stars Jackie Coogan, John Carradine, and Billy Gilbert.
Red plays George Appleby. Guest Star: Lola Albright.
Red Stars as Clem Kadiddlehopper. Guest star: Basil Rathbone.
Freddie stows away on a luxury liner.
Red plays George Appleby. Guest Star: Jeanne Cagney.
Red stars as Clem Kadiddlehopper and San Fernando Red. Guest Star: Cesar Romero.
Red enlists the awkward Marvin Kaplan to come along on an Valentine's Day double date. Guest Stars: Marvin Kaplan and Sally Forrest.
Mad Scientist - Long-running weekly show that spotlighted legendary comedian and beloved TV clown, Red Skelton. Each show featured comedy skits, gags and vignettes starring Skelton and guest performers.
Red plays Navy cook Cookie and Jamie Farr reprises his role as Snorkel. In the hilarious climatic scene watch as Farr dresses up in drag a good 16 years before his iconic cross dressing character Klinger on M.A.S.H. debuted. Guest Stars: Jamie Farr and Alan Hale Jr.
Red stars as Freddie The Freeloader who refuses to sell his tiny rundown shack to make room for a new freeway. Guest Stars: Charles Coburn and Allen Jenkins.
Red plays Clem Kadiddelhopper. Guest Star: Judy Canova.
Red tries to save a dance hall by hosting a Dance Marathon. Guest Star: Keefe Brasselle.
Red plays George Appleby who's co-worker try to pull a prank on him during a convention. Guest Star: Dick Foran.
Red plays Bolivar Shagnasty. Guest Star: Paul Coates
Red takes on the role of Robin Hood. Guest Stars: John Carradine, Billy Gilbert, and Sterling Holloway.
Red stars as Bolivar Shagnasty. Guest Stars: Elena Verdugo and Fritz Feld.
Red plays Clem Kadiddlehopper. Guest Star: Anne Jeffreys.
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.
Red plays a bumbling waiter who falls in with the wrong crowd.
Red plays the blood thirsty pirate Captain Kid. Guest Stars: John Carradine, Billy Gilbert, and Sterling Holloway.
Red stars as Clem Kadiddlehopper. Guest Star: Anna Sten
Opening Mime: Flat tire Acts Freddie finds a headlight the belongs to Jack Benny.
In this episode, Red is running a crooked Mississippi showboat. He falls in love with the Plantation owner's daughter.
Red's guests are Carol Channing and Peter Lorre. Also appearing are Jan Arvan and Richard Deacon.
In this episode, Clem is running a fish market in San Francisco. In a hilarious turn of events, Clem finds himself in a whole lot of trouble with his market.
Cowboy star Rex Allen is atypically cast as the villain in the filmed comedy sketch "Freddie the Star." Thanks to an obscure western movie in which appeared years earlier, hobo Freddie the Freeloader (Red Skelton) finds himself a TV hero-and the idol of American youth. A jealous Hollywood rival (Allen) tries to eliminate the competition by challenging Freddie to a series of endurance tests, culminating in an old-fashioned showdown.
Freddie the Freeloader discovers a magic lamp in the dump; a genie appears & offers him three wishes.
Willie's sister finds out their Uncle Charlie is making a surprise visit; since he doesn't believe in drinking, She tries to get Willie sobered-up before he arrives.
Freddie is caught between two factions, one wanting the Dodgers to move to L.A., and the other wanting the team to remain in Brooklyn; his shack, which he owns, is located in Chaviz Ravine.
Clara Appleby takes credit for a cake that George bakes, but when the dessert is entered in a contest, she makes George masquerade as her & make the cake in front of judges.
Deadeye is cast in a television Western that competes with a similar one sponsored by a rival product, but all goes well until he discovers he is allergic to his sponsor's product.
Sailor Cookie and Gabby are used in naval research on rockets and guided missiles; they want a leave to see the girl they are engaged to; during the experiments, Cookie and Gabby discover they are engaged to the same girl.
Clara Appleby gets angry at George and leaves on the spur of the moment to go to her mother's; George, trying to win her back, builds a patio in the backyard, which she always wanted.
Freddie & his pal that over the mansion of a retired millionaire to entertain his sister & her family for Thanksgiving; Freddie's sister believes he is wealthy, and, to save face, he feels this is the only way out.
Red, a knave in King Arthur's Court, is made a knight, Sir Galahad, to try killing a dragon that is menacing the kingdom; Red does not know that he is given the assignment only because none of the other knights want to risk their lives.
An ageing Sheriff calls on his son from the east to deal with Deadeye. Finds out the son, Rollo, is a bit of a wimp.
Red & his friends attempt to stop the king from imposing so many high taxes on his people.
Red's guests are Nancy Walker and Hope Emerson. Also appearing are William Bakewell, Pamela Duncan, Joan Tabor and Jack Mann. Highlights: Impressed with Bolivar's hair-styling talents, his girlfriend and her mother decide to set him up in business. But business goes badly for Bolivar's beauty salon until movie star Valerie Venton visits. Valerie is so pleased with his work that she takes Bolivar back to Hollywood to open a shop.LESS
Red's guests are Mary Beth Hughes and Jackie Coogan. Also appearing are Joseph Vitale, John Mitchum, Franklin Pangborn and Jim Cross. Highlights: Cold opening: A Pretty Girl at a filling station. A series of murders have taken place in George Appleby's town. Convinced that he can solve the crimes, George, and his wife Clara, look for the murderer
Guest Star Amanda Blake, Reed Hadley
Clem Kadiddlehopper paints what he considers a masterpiece, and wants to exhibit it in New York.
San Fernando cons miners out of gold mines.
Guest Star Edward Everett Horton
Clem becomes a judge for a beauty contest and is pressured by the sponsors.
San Fernando gambles his riverboat away but becomes a cabin boy to protect his daughter. Romero takes San Fernando's place to avoid the law.
Long-running weekly show that spotlighted legendary comedian and beloved TV clown, Red Skelton. Each show featured comedy skits, gags and vignettes starring Skelton and guest performers.
George Appleby discovers a formula that will wipe out smog in Los Angeles and his wife Clara (Marilyn Maxwell) discovers that smog isn't all that the formula will make disappear.
With Vincent Price
After embarrassing her at the movies during a showing of "The Blob", Mrs. Appleby decides to teach George a lesson by tricking him into believing she's turned into a bird with the help of a borrowed parrot. He takes her (the bird) to a psychiatrist for help.
Deadeye looks for a female bandit.
A health club instructor tries to build up Appleby on his TV show.
An art expert (Vincent Price) learns that Freddie the Freeloader has an orginal DaVinci painting.
The mayor gets blackmailed with San Fernando's badger game photo, and must let him run a bookie room in city hall. When he pulls the same trick on the governor, they're forced to nominate him at the big convention, but the two politicos get their revenge by showing an unexpected movie.
Emmy Awards; prize fight; Halloween; salesman; spaghetti dinner; Clem Kadiddlehopper.
George and Clara Appleby sketch: --Clara discovers that her refrigerator was raided during the night.
Opening: Telephones. Clem, Bolivar, McPugg and Willie call in to get messages. Bolivar goes to the wrong house to repair a TV. Maxwell sings.
"Laughter, the Universal Language" A special performance taped at the United Nations. Mime and a song. The Fool and the Feather A Slow Motion Tennis Game The Old Man Playing Golf A Chef Mixes a Salad A Folk Song - "Foggy Foggy Dew" A Man and His Wife Climb the Eiffel Tower An Old Man Watches a Parade
George Appleby predicts the World Series. His wife wants him to predict the presidential election.
William Demarest plays Burnside, a political boss who believes that Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red Skelton) would make the ideal Presidential candidate.
Guest star Vincent Price as Maxwell the Magician
San Fernando Red (Red Skelton) launches an investigation of investigating committees. Guest star: Jayne Meadows.
Guest star: Virginia Grey
Guest star: Terry Moore
Guest stars: Diana Dors, Ray Kellogg
Clem visits the Johnson's Wax factory and raises the ire of an executive (Played by Cedric Hardwicke) by his bungling.
Red Skelton appears as a marionette
Guest vocalist: Marilyn Maxwell
Talk about Candid Camera, Gigot, Red Skelton story, Diet and Godrey plays a banjo rag to fill up time.
Guest star: Desi Arnaz
--Sketch: Freddie the Freeloader finds an abandoned infant.
Red Skelton and Cesar Romero star in this episode about what "really" happened at the Alamo.
Guest star: Hans Conried
Guest star: Stephen Dunne
Guest stars: Billy Gilbert & Roland Winters
Guest star: Marilyn Maxwell
with Mary Beth Hughes and Henry Kulky
with Sebastian Cabot, Barbara Morrison, Charles Cantor, Frank Wilcox and George Kennedy
Guest stars: Amanda Blake & Don Knotts
with Phyllis Avery
Guest star: Vivian Vance
Freddie the Freeloader and his pal Muggsy (Jack Kirkwood) have lived at the city dump for years. This fact astounds Dr. Benson (Jackie Coogan) and his colleagues who want the place condemned as a health menace.
Guest star: Gene Autry with his horse Champion
Guest star: Cara Williams
Color staging to the classic tale of Freddie with a Raggedy Ann doll that comes to life. Act 1: Freddie wakes up in a park and trys to get warm. Act 2: Freddie dances with doll that comes to life. Act 3: Freddie and the live doll visit Santa and gets skates. She latter turns back to a doll.
"Appleby's Office Party" - George Appleby is hypnotized at an office party. Guest star Marilyn Maxwell plays Appleby's wife, and Harvey Korman is an office worker who throws George a post-hypnotic suggestion that he's drunk.
Appleby invents a cooling blanket that freezes his wife.
Jayne Meadows plays the leader of a group of female outlaws. And Clem Kadiddlehopper is the amateur detective who tries to capture the gang.
Eva Gabor and Wally Cox
Appleby puts something in the suggestion box that he wants to take back.
Sling shot and a sparrow. Clem finds Mary Todd Lincoln's rocking chair.
Howard Snyder, millionaire, remembers is promise to have Freddie as his best man at his wedding. The rich family want to get ride of him.
Guests: --Harpo Marx --Mahalia Jackson
Daisy June joins a carnival. Clem trys to get her to come back but is against owner Phil Harris.
Guests: --Ray Bolger - sings ""I'm Fascinating"" --Brenda Lee - sings ""All Alone Am I"" & ""Kansas City""
Freddie enters a hospital for a free meal.
Sketch: "Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes" with Red (as The Mean Widdle Kid), Janis Paige (as the mother) and Stubby Kaye (as a child psychiatrist). Music: Janis Paige - "Tea for Two" Janis Paige & Stubby Kaye - "Teamwork"
--Joanie Sommers - ""I'm Old Fashioned,"" ""Till There Was You"" & ""Namely You"" --Cyril Ritchard - ""When I Was a Lad""
--Audrey Meadows --Bobby Rydell - ""Somebody Loves Me"" & ""Cha Cha Cha""
Featuring: 'Freddie and the Yuletide Doll'
Silent Spot: Hangover. Martha Raye, Tommy Noonan
Eve Arden appears as Clara Appleby
Freddie is arrested for breaking into a library.
Red Skelton and guest star Janet Blair play George and Clara Appleby in the comedy sketch "The Portrait of Dorian Appleby." While trying to win a photography contest, poor George bites off more than he can chew, as usual. Following the sketch, The Skelton Dancers introduce a new dance sensation, "The Dip". And in the Silent Spot, Red plays the Greek god Pan on the first day of Spring.
Clem's head becomes a musical instrument and becomes a big hit.
RERUN aired
Guests: --Rhonda Fleming --Hank Henry
Guests: --Don Knotts --Helen O'Connell
Guests: --The Beach Boys --Shirley Temple
Guest stars: Audrey Meadows & Johnny Rivers
Guest stars: Maurice Evans & The Rolling Stones
Red's guest is Metropolitan Opera singer Robert Merrill, who sings "Toreador" and "In the Still of the Night." Sketch: "A Man's Dump Is His Castle," and Freddie the Freeloader doesn't' like it when an archaeologist (Merrill) comes to the city dump and removes the remains of a dinosaur skeleton-part of which was supporting Freddie's shack.
Red's guests are comedian Ed Wynn. singer Vikki Carr, and character actress Mary Wickes. In the sketch, a visiting Sultan (Wynn) wants San Fernando Red to sell him an American wife. In the Silent Spot, Red is an outdoor chef with a brand-new barbecue. Vikki sings 'Bye, Bye, Blackbird" and "Loverland."
Guest star: Bobby Rydell
Guest star: Martha Raye
Guest: Sebastian Cabot & The Rolling Stones
Guest stars: Vic Damone / Gale Garnett
Guest star: Ginger Rogers
Guest stars: Pat Boone / Will Jordan / Joyce Jameson
The world's richest Indian proves to be an easy mark for Fernando Red, who sells him worthless desert land for his mother's retirement home, but when he thinks it's an oil patch, he wants it back. Guest star: Fernando Lamas
Guests are "Lonesome George" Gobel and the folk singing Young Folk. Sketch: After being turned down by scores 0f summer camps, Junior is accepted by camp counselor George Goodbody (Gobel).
Guest star: Greer Garson
Guest stars: The McGuire Sisters / Shirley Mitchell
Guest star: Al Hirt
Guest star: Eve Arden / Manfred Mann
While waiting in line for his unemployment check,George Appleby (Red) meets Archie Moore,also out of work. A man sells him a trained Bear, which he puts in a take-on-all-comers boxing show in a carnival. Moore shows up to challenge the bear. Red's silent spot pantomime involves a Holmesian detective chasing a hooded bad guy around a spooky house-type set.
Guest stars: Don Knotts / The Searchers
Guest stars: Marcel Marceau / Maurice Chevalier
Guest stars: Vincent Price / Anita Bryant
Guest star: Robert Goulet
Guest stars: Hugh O'Brien / Piccola Pupa
Guest stars: Janis Paige / Sheilah Rogers
"The Red Skelton Scrapbook" with John Wayne. Red attempts ballet, hilarious One Minute Dramas, the famous Dunking Donuts bit, and Willie Lump-Lump goes topsy turvy in this annual event. '65 hosted by Ed Wynn
Guest star: Paul Anka
Guest stars: George C. Scott / The Honeycombs
Guest stars: Raymond Burr / The Kinks
Guest star: Patrice Munsel
Guest stars: Paul Ford / Jan and Dean
Guest star: Connie Stevens
Guest stars: Fred Gwynne / Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas
Guest star: Martha Raye
Red as Clem Kadiddlehopper has become quite the champion of matchstick-piling. So, with the help of his cousin Goody Kadiddlehopper (guest Bobby Rydell), he decides to enter the Olympics for the USA. But with the loss of his pet Mexican jumping bean, can all be lost? In "The Silent Spot," Red is an old prospector having nothing but bad luck out in the desert.
Sketch: Duke No-Good of Anasthesia (Milton Berle) purchases a selection of torture devices from Forsooth (Red), a sales representative from Max Fracture (Jan Arvan). Henry Gordon plays the King. Music: Linda Bennett performs "I'm Nobody's Baby" and "Limehouse Blues". Silent Spot: A card player tries to get a fouth for bridge.
Sketch: Would-be artist Deadeye (Red) tries to increase the value of his own paintings by "borrowing" the signature of Parisian impressionist Tooloose Latrec (George Gobel). Music: The Hollies perform "I'm Alive" and "Look Through Any Window". Silent Spot: Red is a newstand owner that does not have the Christmas spirt.
John Wayne hosts the second annual edition of "The Red Skelton Scrapbook." Like the first edition in 1965, this telecast from March 1, 1966 features Skelton reprising several of his most beloved routines, including "Dunking Doughnuts" and (with Melanie Alexander) his spoof of Michael Fokine's ballet 'Spectre of the Rose'. Other highlights included Red's impersonation of a Gay 90s bachelor, and his portrayal of eternally inebriated Willie Lump Lump in the classic "Upside Down Room" routine.
Sketch: Clem Kadiddlehopper graduates as a fortune teller and helps change Mickey Rooney luck. Music: Simon and Garfunkel sing, 'I am a Rock' and 'The Dangling Conversation.' Silent Spot: Red touchingly pantomimes a man's last day on the job after 60 years, and his difficulty in actually leaving.
Sketch: Sheriff Deadeye and western dandy the Handkisser (Jack Jones) scheme to steal a gold statue that the sheriff's grafting cronies are planning to erect in honor of his 20th year in office. Music: Jack Jones sings "All I Need is the Girl," "A Day in the Life of a Fool" and "People Will Say We're in Love." The Silent Spot: Red reprises his routine about a drunk gentleman trying to get in his front door after a long evening of partying.
Sketch: Clem Kadiddlehopper's lighter-than-air cake recipe attracts the attention of foreign General Ruhakoff (Vito Scotti) who wants to use the recipe as rocket fuel for his country's space program. Janet Leigh appears as Clem's girlfriend, Daisy June. Music: Dionne Warwick sings "Walk On By" and "People." The Silent Spot: A burglar (Red) with a sweet tooth breaks into a drugstore soda fountain. Bill Shannon plays a policeman.
Sketch: George Appleby (Red) is photographed by Allen Funt & Abbe Lane at a mini-skirt sales convention. Music: Abbe Lane sings a "Strangers In The Night" And "Heat Wave" medley. Silent Spot: Red does a pantomime routine as a mountain climber.
Sketch: Sheriff Deadeye auditions for a western movie. Robert Goulet plays method actor Nathan Nothing. Music: Robert Goulet sings "Moment of Truth" and "Try to Remember." Silent Spot: During the Christmas shopping rush, an elderly salesman is transferred to the toy department.
Sketch: Forsooth (Red), a bumbling medieval servant, brings deadly bad luck to the Duke de Fromage and the Marquis de Swinger, the father and son (both played by Tony Randall) of a French aristocratic family. Music: Tony Randall performs a song-and-dance to "Winchester Cathedral." The Silent Spot: Red tries to be first in line for Rose Bowl tickets in a pantomime bit with Barbara Hewitt (the 1966 Tournament of Roses Queen).
In this WW II parody, the stars of "Hogan's Heroes" (Bob Crane and John Banner) appear as their characters of Col. Hogan and Sgt. Schultz. Red (as Freddie the Freeloader) is assigned to assist in their escape from Stalag 13. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a bungling 19th century suitor who must meet his girlfriend's parents.
Sketch: Christopher Columbus (George Gobel) sets sail with Forsooth Fromkess (Red). Music: British balladeers Chad and Jeremy sing "It Was a Very Good Year." Silent Spot: Red plays a star-struck car hop hoping to be discovered in Hollywood.
Sketch: Terry-Thomas is hired to Make America Beautiful so Freddie the Freeloader moves his shack across the country. Music: Joanie Sommers sings "Girl Talk" and "When I'm Not Near the Boy I Love." Silent Spot: The old photographer pawns his camera to pay his rent, then gets customers.
Sketch: George Appleby (Red) arrives early for a high society party thrown by his old pals Mike and Pat Mahoney (Mickey Rooney and Martha Raye), entertainers who have struck it rich. The three start drinking before the other guests arrive. The polite gathering soon escalates into a wild bash. Music: Martha Raye sings "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" and "Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe". The Silent Spot: Pierre the Beautician demonstrates some of the unusual beauty treatments that he gives his customers.
Sketch: A novice lawyer (Richard Chamberlain) defends his first client, San Fernando Red, on an income tax evasion charge. Music: Richard Chamberlain sings "Haven't We Met?" and "When I Fall in Love." The Silent Spot: Red pantomimes a light sleeper having a bizarre nightmare.
Sketch: With help from former champion Loser Lumpkin (Tennessee Ernie Ford), Clem Kadiddlehopper trains for the chicken-plucking competition in the Olympics. Music: Tennessee Ernie Ford sings "I'll Remember You" and "Hey Look Me Over." The Silent Spot: Taking down the Christmas Tree.
Sketch: An ex-policeman (Nipsey Russell) and George Appleby (Red) form a dance team and try for a job on TV. Music: Lana Cantrell sings "I'm All Smiles" and "Let Yourself Go." The Silent Spot: Red is a cricket catcher working for a magician.
Shakespearean actor Maurice Evans narrates this lengthy pantomime sketch with all seven ages - from "mewling and pewking" to "sans hair, sans teeth, sans everything" - enacted by Skelton. Red mimes a baby, then goes up the ladder as Junior, the Mean Widdle Kid, followed by impressions of a young lover, a soldier, a judge, a senior citizen and an old man. Red also sings his own touching composition, "Little Boy."
Sketch: Sheriff Deadeye (Red) pretends to be the long-lost brother of wealthy Britisher Sir Whitecliff of Dover (Stanley Holloway). Music: Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 perform "Mas Que Nada" and "Night and Day." The Silent Spot: Red pantomimes an aviator. One-Minute Dramas: Skelton and Holloway perform blackouts illustrating the British sense of humor, court musicians and TV commercials.
Sketch: As a test for knighthood, King Foul-Up the First (Burt Lahr) puts Forsooth through a series of challenges. These include bouts with Cruncho the Giant and a beautiful witch (Joyce Rees). Music: Fran Jeffries sings "Too Close for Comfort" and "Out of This World." The Silent Spot: Do-it-yourself fanatic Mr. Butterfingers (Red) drives his next-door neighbor (Jan Arvan) crazy. One-Minute Dramas: For the blackouts, Lahr and Skelton perform vaudeville and burlesque routines.
Sketch: Master spy Harry Sneak (Fernando Lamas) recruits tourist George Appleby to help him protect the Maharajah of Kumquat (Billy Barty). Music: The 5th Dimension performs "Somewhere" and "California My Way" and "Up, Up and Away". The Silent Spot: A hospital patient's condition only worsens when another patient is assigned to his room. One-Minute Dramas: Lamas and Skelton appear in blackouts set at a lonely London bridge, a prison and a barbershop.
Sketch: Freddie the Freeloader disrupts a fashion show at a high-end department store. Terry-Thomas plays the store's floorwalker Cedric Fussbudget, and Nancy Wilson is the store detective. Music: Nancy Wilson sings "Up Tight" and "Music That Makes Me Dance." The Silent Spot: An elderly grocer (Red) is besieged by complaining customers, along with construction noise from a nearby building. One-Minute Dramas: Terry-Thomas and Nancy Wilson join Red in blackouts about a clock shop, a winning jockey, a psychiatrist's office and a Western shootout.
Sketch: Clem Kadiddlehopper helps banker Samuei J. Gouger (Roland Winters) stop the marriage of his playboy son (John Forsythe) to stripper Peaches Laverne (Michele Lee). Music: Michele Lee sings "I'm Old Fashioned" and "Anything Goes." The Tom Hansen Dancers offer their interpretation of "Feelin' Groovy." The Silent Spot: Skelton pantomimes a skin diver who encounters a mermaid while searching for sunken treasure. One-Minute Dramas: Blackouts include a bearded lady.
Sketch: Freddie the Freeloader stumbles into a Love-In, where he is accepted as an equal by hippies Cherub Sweetface (Tim Conway) and Handsoff Hanna (Nancy Ames). Jackie Coogan plays the policeman. Music: Nancy Ames sings "I Feel Fine" and "Meditation." The show's singers and dancers present "Up Up and Away." The Silent Spot: Red plays a jobless, hungry man watching a restaurant customer (Jackie Coogan) gorge himself. One-Minute Dramas: Red and Nancy Ames affix a weird, growing hairpiece to Tim Conway's head.
Guest stars: Vincent Price & Dionne Warwick
Sketch: In this five-act sketch, Red plays five characters including Methuselah Skelton, a rich old man who sets specific conditions for relatives hoping to inherit his fortune. Following Methuselah's demise, Bolivar Shagnasty, Cauliflower McPugg, Willy Lump-Lump and and Charlie the Swinger show up for the reading of the will. Also present at the reading are Polly Bergan (as Bolivar's fiancé), Pat Carroll (as Mrs. Lump-Lump), Reta Shaw and Billy Barty. Music: Polly Bergen sings "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey" and "They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me."
Sketch: Freedie the Freeloader tries to help an amnesiac (George Gobel) recall his identity. Music: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons perform "Sherry," "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" and a medley of songs from "The Sound of Music." Silent Spot: Red plays a street sweeper who's obsessed with neatness.
Sketch: Silent screen star Greta Gargoyle (Phyllis Diller) casts Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) as a bullfighter in her comeback film. Music: Lou Rawls sings "Three O'Clock in the Morning" and "On a Clear Day." The Silent Spot: Red plays a store detective who wages war against shoplifters. One-Minute Dramas: Skelton and Miss Diller portray Mr. and Mrs. Ben Franklin discovering electricity, a couple meeting on a desert island, and two-thirds of a Hollywood love triangle.
Sketch: Big Pappy Tumbleweed (Burl Ives, reprising his "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" character) and Sheriff Deadeye (Red) clash when they both stake claim on an abandoned gold mine. Music: Lulu sings "To Sir, with Love" and "Lulu's Back in Town". Lulu and Burt Ives perform a "Consider Yourself" duet. Burl Ives sings "The Little White Duck." Silent Spot: A candy dipper (Red) fouls up the assembly line when he becomes distracted by a pretty co-worker. One-Minute Dramas: Ives joins Skelton for blackouts on pallbearers, a car salesman, and a smokeless car invention.
Sketch: Pianist Lee Kadiddlehopper (Liberace) entertains at a society matron's musicale while his oafish brother Clem turns the music sheets. Music: Liberace performs "All the Things You Are." The Youngfolk sing "Gotta Travel On." Liberace and the Youngfolk perform "Feelin' Groovy." The Silent Spot: Red plays an Indian chief who gets his smoke signals crossed in a love triangle. One-Minute Dramas: Red and Liberace build a house of cards, bargain for an ancient suit of armor, and play witch doctor and patient.
Sketch: George Appleby (Red) suspects that his wife Clara (Emmaline Henry) and his college pal (Mike Connors) are planning to bump him off. Music: Tom Jones sings "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "Mohair Sam" & "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis." The Silent Spot: Red pantomimes a motorist with car troubles.
Sketch: Dr. Hardsell Hopkins (Nipsey Russell), a combination insurance salesman, medical examiner and undertaker, offers a package deal for zoo employee George Appleby. Music: The Association perform "Birthday Morning," "Windy" & "Wasn't It A Bit Like Now?" The Silent Spot: "The Old Handy Man" attempts to make minor house repairs. One-Minute Dramas: Nipsey and Red play safecrackers and onlookers at a bathing-beauty audition. Also, a blackout about a lonely-hearts consultation.
Sketch: In a musical spoof of monster movies, Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) is mistaken for an experimental robot by a pair of mad scientists (Boris Karloff and Vincent Price), who sing "The Two of Us". Red and his guests recreate old vaudeville routines. Music: Spanky Wilson sings "Alfie" and "Apartment 101." The Singers and Dancers perform the ensemble number "Nola." Silent Spot: Red pantomimes a high-strung man disturbed by loud noises.
Sketch: Maurice Evans attempts to bring culture into Cauliflower McPugg's life by giving the boxer violin lessons. Music: Shirley Bassey sings "I Who Have Nothing" and "Walking Happy." Maurice Evans recites Robert W. Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Olio Spot: Vaudeville routine with Red and starlet Beverly Hills being kidnapped by a desert Sheik. The Silent Spot: Red plays a camper battling a violent windstorm.
Sketch: Sheriff Deadeye finds himself the target of one booby trap after another—all triggered by Prudence Pennyfeather (Martha Raye). Music: Kenny Rogers & The First Edition perform "If Wishes Were Horses" and "Listen to the Music." Martha Raye sings "How About Me?" The Olio Spot: Skelton, Jimmy Cross, and Sid Slate play Vaudeville hoofers. The Silent Spot: While parked on Lovers' Lane, Charlie the Swinger (Red) faces constant interruptions which prevent him from getting romantic with his dates (Chanin Hale and Joyce Horne).
Guest stars: The Mills Brothers & George Gobel
Red reprises his interpretation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Sketch: Clara and George Appleby look back on the night when George proposed, then they look forward (in a manner of speaking) to their 50th anniversary. Music: The Lettermen sing "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" and "More." The Olio Spot: Red plays a daffy contestant in a spoof of Ted Mack's TV series "The Original Amateur Hour." The Silent Spot: A mountain patrol ranger (Red) searches for a lost plane.
Sketch: In a spoof of his own TV talk show, Merv Griffin interviews three Red Skelton characters: Cauliflower McPugg, Bolivar Shagnasty and Willie Lump-Lump. Music: Merv Griffin performs a medley of British music-hall songs, including his own signature tune "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts." The Olio Spot: Red and Bern Hoffman play convicts in a series of crossover gags. The Silent Spot: A wagon-master holds an open audition for Indian guides.
Sketch: The Black Knight (Sergio Franchi) challenges Clem Kadiddlehopper to a joust over the hand of a princess. Music: Sergio Franchi sings "L-O-V-E" and "Non Ti Scordor di Me." The Olio Spot: Jimmy Cross and Red play drunken tourists in Mexico. The Silent Spot: Red portrays an international spy caught in the act.
Sketch: Red plays Pop, a stowaway janitor on a Jupiter-bound spaceship commanded by astronaut Peter Graves. Music: Iron Butterfly performs "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and "Soul Experience." The Silent Spot: 'The Silent Movie Kop" - Skelton plays a silent movie cop frantically chasing a bank robber.
(John Wayne's 40th Anniversary) Guest John Wayne and Red do a skit about different sorts of autograph hunters. Sketch: Sheriff Deadeye faces Rooster Cogburn in a saloon duel. The Silent Spot: "The Happy Irish Pub", sees Red hired as a jig-dancing, furniture-smashing bouncer.
Red and guest Cesar Romero appear as Bolivar Shagnasty and Butch, a pair of jailed convicts who effect an impromptu prison escape. In another sketch, Willie Lump Lump (Red) is a drunk who agrees to watch Clint Howard's juice stand, but ends up spiking the lemonade. Lastly, in "the Silent Spot," Red is Pops, a school crossing guard who is depressed when it seems no one cares that he is retiring.
Silent Spot: Red is a magician with Jerry Lewis as his klutzy assistant.
Sketch: Freddie the Freeloader is held hostage in his shack by a gangster and his moll (Raymond Burr, Barbara Anderson). Silent Spot: The Remodeling Job
Sketch: George Appleby dreams he is a comic book superman who is having trouble with his son (Robert Wagner). Silent Spot: The Jealous Boyfriend
Sketch: Clem Kadiddlehopper is a private detective in charge of protecting a witness (Mike Connors).
Sketch: In a take-off of "High Noon" Deputy Hawkeye (Walter Brennan) and Sheriff Deadeye (Red) face off against the Moonie Brothers. Silent Spot: The Happy Wanderer - Red and Jan Arvan fight for a campsite.
Sketch: Clem Kadiddlehopper trys to take a census with a man (Gene Barry) who is cheating on his wife. Silent Spot: The Taxidermist's Mother-in-Law.
Sketch: Freddie the Freeloader helps Van Johnson hire a secretary. Silent Spot: A Spooky Night.
Sketch: George Appleby (Red) throws out his oafish house guest (Dan Blocker). Silent Spot: The Barber - Red mimes a tipsy barber.
Sketch: San Fernando Red is football star Joe Broadway's (Godfrey Cambridge) manager. Silent Spot: Red, as Diamond Jim Grady, visits an exclusive restaurant.
Sketch: Kooky scientist Ludwig von Humperdoo (Red) is being checked out by a Government Agent (Mickey Rooney) who wants his secret invention. Silent Spot: "The House Detective and the Suspect". Red is a private eye following three identical suspects.
Sketch: San Fernando Red tries to con the Richest Boy in the World (Michael Landon). Silent Spot: The Old Man Who Hated Kids.
Sketch: Sheriff Deadeye protects the stagecoach from Telly Savalas. Silent spot: The Gift of Giving
Freddie trsy to put on a show for orphans.
Sketch: Audrey plays the mother of Junior (Red) who decides that early Sunday morning is a good time to wake up Mommy. Silent Spot: "Keep Romance Alive" Red plays an old man with a gleam in his eye and fond memories of youthful romance.
Sketch: Jill St. John plays a secret agent who tries to steal Ludwick von Humerdoo's secret formula. Silent Spot: The Day After the Bachelor Party.
Sketch: San Fernando Red gets fireman (Chad Everett) to marry Cass Elliot. Silent Spot: The Flea Circus.
Sketch: Clem Kadiddlehopper and his Pa need to auction off the farm with the help of auctioneer James Drury. Silent spot: The Wife Who Sees Her Husband in Everybody.
Sketch: Freddie the Freeloader and his hobo servant (Wally Cox) meet a rich woman (Eva Gabor) who wants to give him one million dollars. Silent Spot: The Greasy Spoon Cafe - Red mimes the sloppy chief cook and bottle washer at an unsanitary diner.
Sketch: Claude Casserole (Vincent Price), a gourmet, is marooned on an island with Clem Kadiddlehopper. Silent Spot: Nag, Nag, Nag - Red mimes the imprisoned husband of a browbeating wife (Peggy Rea).
Sketch: Clara Appleby (Martha Raye) raises the roof after George (Red) sells the old guitar in which she's been hiding her life savings at the garage sale. Silent Spot: The Clumsy Stockboy in a Teddy Bear Factory.
Sketch: Tire King Tom Treadwell (George Gobel) is out to destroy Ludwick von Humperdoo's latest invention - cement tires for rubber roads. Silent Spot: Girls Ahoy - Red mimes a sailor trying to pick up a girl (Chanin Hale).
Sketch: Sheriff Deadeye vs. Killer Diller (Phyllis Diller). Silent spot: Computer Dating.
Sketch: San Fernando (Red) as a presidential candidate is coached by his managing TV Director (Tony Randall). Silent Spot: The Patient - Toothache victim (Red) fears the dentist.
Sketch: A spoof of "Ironside" as Sebastian Cabot plays the wheelchair bound detective who depends on Clem Kadiddlehopper for locomotion. Silent Spot: The Pit Stop Mechanic - Red is fumble-fingered mechanic in a raceway pit stop. Music: The Burgundy Street Singers perform "Let's Get Together".
Opening: Talks about coming back to television; dressing rooms; looking good at old age; State Fair health; meeting people; Seagulls; type of mime. Mimes: New Yorker on a Horse; Drive-In; Dunking Donuts; Greek restaurant waiter; Birth, Life and Death of a Flower in a Storm. Jokes: Desires at Midnight. Clem (Hunting dogs); Junior (Milkman; Dust); Funeral; Airplane fuel.
Red Skelton on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
An interview with Jamie farr.
This HBO Special was recorded live at the Centre in the Square Theatre in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
This is the third and final HBO special by Red Skelton and was taped live at Hamilton Place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Skelton performed several mime skits including a grandfather teaching baseball to his grandson, a woman driver, a veterinarian giving a flu shot to a whale, and a father viewing his new baby for the first time at the maternity ward window
In 1984, Skelton gave a Royal Command Performance for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds which was later shown in the US on HBO
Freddie the Freeloader sets out to have Xmas dinner in a very expensive New York restaurant with his good friend, the Professor. Along the way he stops in a hospital to entertain some children on Xmas. Red Skelton does a couple of songs on his own & a duet with Vincent Price.
The biography covers Skelton's life from birth to death, divided into chapters: The Boy From Vincennes; Canadian Comic; Radio, War, and New Family; Welcome to Hollywood; Red Skelton on TV - the NBC Years; The Comeback; The Death of Richard Freeman Skelton; On With the Show; The Many Sides of Red Skelton.
A Peak Behind the cutain in this special look at Red's unique and freewheeling rehearsal process. Filled with more of Red's signature ad-libs than you ever though possible, this anarchic dress rehearsal provides a very different experience from the episode which made it to the airwaves - yet still manages to leave Red's audience in stiches
From the Nuggett Hotel in Sparkes, Nevada.
An intimate interview with the man himself. Red Skelton.
Red Skelton Career in Laughter DVD
Performance at John Ascuaga's Nugget (Sparks, Nevada August 5th, 1980)
Christmas Silent spot from the Red Skelton Show.
