Red SkeltonFilmography

Born:
July 18, 1913 in Vincennes, IN
Occupation:
Actor, Screenwriter
Birth name:
Richard Bernard Skelton
Biography:
Hollywood has seen the coming and going of many comic geniuses, but only a select few have been as universally beloved as gentle, low-key Red Skelton and his cavalcade of characters that included the clown Freddie the Freeloader, the goofy Clem Kadiddlehopper, and his seagulls Gertrude and...Read More

  • Red Skelton: Country Comedy

    2002

  • Red Skelton's Christmas Jollies

    Synopsis: Red Skelton became one of the most celebrated television comedians of all-time with his array of lovable characters. This compilation brings together a variety of Holiday themed skits from his long-running program. Included are sketches starring the most famous Skelton alter-egos Freddy the Read More

    1993

  • Red Skelton: His Many Faces of Comedy

    Actors: Red Skelton

    1993

  • Red Skelton: A Career of Laughter

    1992

  • Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook

    Synopsis: Here's a look back at a bunch of the funniest scenes that appeared in the long-running Red Skelton Hour series. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1991

  • Best of 50's Comedy

    1990

  • Red Skelton: King of Laughter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton: King of Laughter provides a comedy collection of master comedian Red Skelton performing some of his most well-loved characters, skits, monologues, and ad-libs from his days in Vaudeville, as well as later in his television career. Included among the routines are Guzzler's Gin and Read More

    1989

  • The Hollywood Clowns

    1985

  • Red Skelton: A Royal Command Performance

    Synopsis: The title of this taped, 60-minute special was not mere hyperbole. Red Skelton offers some of his best verbal and visual comedy routines before a distinguished British audience, including the Royal Family. Highlights include Skelton's uproarious "Guzzler's Gin" and his heartbreaking "Old Man Read More

    1984

  • Red Skelton's Funny Faces, Part 3

    Synopsis: Red presents his host of hilarious Skelton characters in this effort which was created for cable TV. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1982

  • Red Skelton's Christmas Dinner

    Synopsis: First telecast as an HBO comedy special on December 14, 1982, Red Skelton's Christmas Dinner teams the beloved comedian with Imogene Coca and Vincent Price. While en route to Toronto's Shakespeare Gardens in hopes of cadging a free meal, hoboes Freddie (Red) and Professor Humperue (Vincent) come Read More

    1981

  • Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, Vol. 4 - Hollywood Goes to War

    Synopsis: This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks back home during WW II. Each of the five shorts features an all-star cast doing things to cheer people up during a difficult time. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980

  • Red Skelton's Funny Faces

    Synopsis: Belying his 70 years, Red Skelton delivers a virtuoso performance in this comedy-concert special. In addition to offering a vast array of his familiar characters, Red also performs a number of his best pantomime routines, both hilarious and eloquent. Jimmy Dale provided the original music for this Read More

    1979

  • Rudolph's Shiny New Year

    Actors: Frank Gorshin

    Synopsis: Rudolph is again a hero when he comes to the rescue of Baby New Year (otherwise time would stand still!). This animation/puppet combo features the talented voices of Red Skelton and Frank Gorshin. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1979

  • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

    Actors: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley

    Synopsis: Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) offers 10,000 pounds to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. A huge number of hopefuls enter the Read More

    1965

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 31

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's guests on this episode from May 21, 1963 are actress Rhonda Fleming and nightclub comic (and Frank Sinatra crony) Hank Henry. In the comedy sketch "Captains Outrageous," tavernkeeper Forsooth (Red) comes to the rescue when Captain Hook (Hank) kidnaps a red-headed princess (Rhonda). Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 30

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Songstress Keely Smith performs "One for the Road", "Where Is Love", "At Long Last Love" and "The End of a Love Affair", and joins Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "A Midsummer Nut's Dream." The premise: hillbilly Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) becomes a singing sensation, while his sweetheart Daisy Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 29

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Pat Carroll and Forrest Tucker are Red Skelton's guests on this telecast from April 30, 1963. In the comedy sketch "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Hate," the bickering Applebys, George (Red) and Clara (Pat), visit a marriage counselor (Tucker). In the course of the sketch, Skelton tosses off several jokes Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 32

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Comedian Don Knotts and singer Helen O'Connell appear in Red Skelton's final first-run telecast of the 1962-63 season. In the comedy sketch "Jerk and the Beanstalk", physical fitness guru Horaces Hercules (Don) vows to build up the muscles of meek George Appleby (Red). In addition to playing Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 25

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Amanda Blake takes time off from her Gunsmoke duties to appear opposite Red Skelton in this broadcast from March 26, 1963. In the comedy sketch "Frontier Coward," ineffectual Sheriff Deadeye (Red) is replaced by square-shooting Widow Jenkins (Amanda). Singer Bobby Rydell plays Billy the Kid, then Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 26

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Ginger Rogers joins Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Come to Me My Melon-Headed Baby." To get even with his mother (Ginger) for cutting off his allowance, Junior Cavendish, aka "The Mean Widdle Kid," rents out his mom's room. In the musical segment, Ginger Rogers and Garrett Lewis recreate Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 27

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: 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 Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 28

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Wagon Train star Robert Horton shows off his flair for comedy and his musical talents in the April 16, 1963 edition of The Red Skelton Hour. In the comedy sketch "How Green Was My Money," hobo Freddie the Freeloader is investigated by zealous IRS agent Gouger (Horton), who wants to create a "mooch Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 16

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Oscar-winning Japanese actress Miyoshi Umeki is Red Skelton's guest on this episode from January 15, 1963. In the comedy sketch "Have Rickshaw-Will Travel," Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) can't understand why his pumpkins are making noises-until he opens one up, and out pops an oriental refugee Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 15

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Eve Arden costars with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Where There's a Will, There's a Wife." Once again, Red is cast as henpecked George Appleby, while Eve portrays George's witchy wife. When the neighborhood milkman inherits some money, his wife treats him like a king. Impressed by this Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 17

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The husband-wife team of Phil Harris and Alice Faye appear with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Children Should Be Seen But Not Had." Red plays Junior Cavendish, aka The Mean Widdle Kid, who has driven his father (Phil) to drink and his mother (Alice) halfway to the booby hatch. Typical gags Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 19

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: George Gobel pays another visit to The Red Skelton Show on this telecast from February 5, 1963. In the comedy sketch "Much Ado About Knotting," dumbbell Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red} joins a boy scout troop headed by Mr. Winkle (Gobel). Jane Lung is featured as Daisy June, while Frankie Darro appears Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 18

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this broadcast from January 29, 1963 Red Skelton plays Freddie the Freeloader in the comedy sketch "Witness for the Persecution." When hobo Freddie is arrested for breaking into the library (he merely wanted to take a nap on the stacks), famed attorney Perry Masonjar (Mickey Rooney) comes to Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 14

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's guest star on this telecast from January 1, 1963 is Martha Raye, who appears in the appropriately titled comedy sketch "Of Mouth and Men." Capitalizing on the publicity surrounding the yet-to-be-released Elizabeth Taylor version of Cleopatra, the sketch casts Martha as an Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 23

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's guests are actor Sebastian Cabot and singer Jerry Lanning (the son of vocalist Roberta Sherwood). The comedy sketch "The Beverly Haykickers" spoofs what was then the most popular show in America, as real-life mountaineer Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) replaces ham actor Sir Vivian Oblivion Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 24

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Marilyn Maxwell and Jackie Coogan join Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "After the Bald Was Over." George Appleby (Red) tries to save his job by creating a hair-restoring formula for his chrome-domed boss Mr. Baldwin (Coogan). Marilyn Maxwell reprises her role as Clara Appleby. In the Silent Spot Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 22

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's guest on this broadcast from February 26, 1963 is rotund musical comedy star Stubby Kaye. In a sketch titled "My Friend the Enemy," Freddie the Freeloader (Red) thinks he has it made when his friend and fellow hobo (Stubby) becomes a cop. He doesn't. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 20

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's guests on this broadcast from February 12, 1963 are Cesar Romero and the German singing duo The Kessler Twins (Alice and Ellen), making their American TV debut. In the comedy sketch "Red Fails in the Sunset," con man San Fernando Red (Skelton) poses as a native fire god on a tropical Read More

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 21

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In the comedy sketch "Advice to the Loveworn," henpecked George Appleby seeks help from marriage counselor Dr. Joyce Sisters, played by Jayne Mansfield. Virginia Grey once again appears as George's loudmouthed wife Clara. Best bit: when Jayne asks Red where he got his less-than-impressive Read More

    1963

  • Hollywood and the Stars: Funny Men

    Actors: Joseph Cotten

    1963

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 25

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Dorothy Provine, then the star of TV's The Roaring 20s, is Red Skelton's guest star. In the comedy sketch "Bride of Bolivar", much-married movie queen Piper Novak (Dorothy) throws a fit when she learns that her biggest Hollywood rival has matched her record of 23 husbands. There is only one Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 27

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton presents a rare all-pantomime edition of his popular CBS TV series on this telecast from April 17, 1962. Skelton plays resourceful vagabone Freddie the Freeloader, who spends virtually the entire program looking for breakfast. Also appearing are Roy Jenson and Bob Duggan as policemen Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 26

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Jayne Meadows joins Red Skelton in a "Clem Kadiddlehopper" comedy sketch. Armed with his trusty "How to Be a Detective" kit, hayseed Clem (Red) sets out to capture the notorious Dalton Gals. Alas, the kit fails him, and by mid-sketch Clem is the prisoner of the beauteous outlaw leader (Jayne). Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 22

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The main comedy sketch on this episode from February 27, 1962 is titled "Calling Dr. Kadiddlehopper." The story opens at Major General Hospital, where chief surgeon Dr. Wilcox (Charles Ruggles) is under pressure to collect all overdues bills lest the hospital be demolished. Wilcox's first stop Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 23

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Perennial Red Skelton Show guest stars John Carradine and Marie Windsor are back again. In the comedy sketch "Appleby's Bearded Boarder", overworked George Appleby (Skelton) tries to alleviate his precarious financial condition by rent out his spare room. The Applebys' new border turns out to be Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 24

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this telecast from March 13, 1962, former Lineup star Warner Anderson again plays a cop in the comedy sketch "The Nine Lives of Freddie." While taking his daily nap on a park bench, Freddie the Freeloader (Red Skelton) witnesses the murder of Little Augie. At first accused of committing the Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 32

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Sebastian Cabot joins Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "This Goon for Hire. Cabot plays Dr. Pomerantz, the inventor of a computer which can match any person to the right profession. But Pomerantz had reckoned without the insurmountable ineptitude of his first client: Hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 33

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's comedy sketch is "Freddie and the Daily Freeloader." It all begins when hoboes Freddie the Freeloader and Muggsy decide to go into the newspaper business. When the boys decide to use their rag to attack the current political administration, Boss O'Bigg (guest star Mickey Rooney) tries to Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 34

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Vincent Price joins Red Skelton for Red's final program of the 1961-62 season-and his final half-hour show before launching The Red Skelton Hour in September 1962. In the comedy sketch "Cauliflower Loses His Birds", punchdrunk boxer Cauliflower seeks out a cure for the "little birdies" that he Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 31

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Dick Foran is Red Skelton's guest on this episode from May 22, 1962. In the comedy sketch "Best Man Blues", self-made millionaire Howard Snyder (Dick Foran) prepares to marry a dizzy socialite named Goo Goo. But the wedding may well be sabotaged by Howard's choice for Best Man: his old hobo pal Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 28

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The title of tonight's main comedy sketch was to have been "How to Fail in Business Without Really Trying", a play on the title of a then-popular Broadway musical comedy. When the legal department got wind of this, they ordered a name-change: as a result, the episode finally reached the airwaves Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 29

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this episode from May 8, 1962, singer Helen O'Connell performs "Who Cares" and appears in a comedy sketch with Red Skelton. In "Rock on the Wild Side," the US government combs the country in search of a rare artifact: Mary Todd Lincoln's rocking chair. They finally locate the chair in the barn Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 30

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Pat Carroll returns to the role of Clara Appleby in the comedy sketch "Go Van Gogh." Clara has taken up painting under the patronage of wealthy Mrs. Wellington (Barbara Morrison). On the eve of the unveiling of Clara's latest masterpiece, the canvas is accidentally wrecked by her cloddish husband Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 21

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Former I Love Lucy regular Vivian Vance makes a return visit to The Red Skelton Show. In the comedy sketch "The Iceman Goeth," George Appleby (Red) seeks a cure for his wife Clara's hot temper (Vivian). The solution: A "freezing" machine that works instantly. Unfortunately, the thawing process is Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 07

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's guests in this episode from November 13, 1962 are actor Cesar Romero and singer Jo Stafford. In the comedy sketch "Dial P for Plumber," Clara Appleby (Jo) orders her husband George (Red) to plug a leak in the basement; he makes such a mess of things that the Applebys are forced to Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 06

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In tonight's main comedy sketch, King Marvin (Charles Ruggles) arranges a marriage between his son Rupert the Stupert (Red Skelton) and the fair Princess Jane (Jane Powell). Evil Captain Maxmillian (Jules Munshin) goes to great lengths to sabotage the nuptuals. After the laughs have subsided, Jane Powell Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 05

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: George Gobel costars with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "One Good Intern Deserves Another." Freddie the Freeloader (Red) enters a hospital hoping to finagle a free meal, and nearly undergoes brain surgery at the behest of temperamental doctor Ben Cagey (Gobel). Freddie's pal Muggsy is played by Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 15

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Dick Foran and Phyllis Avery join Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Nothing But the Tooth." Hillbilly Clem Kadiddlehopper is hired to give a public testimonial for the breakfast food manufactured by Mr. Crankie (Foran). Unfortunately, Clem is suddenly stricken with a toothache, and his career as a Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 09

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Cyril Ritchard, best remembered for his bravura portrayal of Captain Hook in the Mary Martin version of Peter Pan, joins singer Joanie Somers in the November 27, 1962 edition of The Red Skelton Hour. In the comedy sketch "March of the Litterbugs", Captain Kleeg (Ritchard) of the Park Sanitation Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 08

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this November 20, 1962 edition of The Red Skelton Hour, Red brings back one of his most famous radio characters: Junior Cavendish, aka "The Mean Widdle Kid." In the comedy sketch "Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes", it is explained that Junior is larger than most seven-year-olds because of a Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 04

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Singer Kay Starr and actor Jackie Coogan appear with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "The Booze Man of Alcatraz." During the Prohibition Era, bootlegger San Fernando Red (Skelton) is sprung from jail on condition that he confine his liquor-brewing activities to the speakeasy run by mobster Frank Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 03

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Ray Bolger plays "The Mayor of Central Park" in tonight's main comedy sketch. His honor receives a complaint from hobo Freddie the Freeloader (Red Skelton) about a noisy dance hall. Naturally, Bolger gets several opportunities to dance, just as Red's other guest star Brenda Lee is afforded plenty Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 19

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: First telecast January 30, 1962, this episode was videotaped while Red Skelton was performing "live" in Las Vegas. After a few tantalizing excerpts from his act, Red is interrupted by a pair of interlopers. But do not despair: The "disrupters" turn out to be two of Skelton's best-loved characters Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 20

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Veteran burlesque and nightclub comedian Joey Faye is Red Skelton's guest on this episode from February 13, 1962. In the comedy sketch "Freddie the Landlord," hoboes Freddie the Freeloader (Red) and Muggsy (Joey) try to raise money for their annual winter trip to Florida. As a means of Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 16

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Two of Red Skelton's most frequent guest stars, Jackie Coogan and Edward Everett Horton, appear in this episode from January 9, 1962. In a "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch, hoboes Freddie and Muggsy arrive in Palm Springs, hoping to collect their unemployment insurance. There is, however, one Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 17

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's comedy sketch is titled "Appleby's Anniversary." Newly employed at Warwick's Jewelry store, George Appleby celebrates by bringing home a ring as an anniversary present for wife Clara (Virginia Grey). Alas, George has made a boo-boo; the inexpensive bauble he purchased for Clara is still Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 18

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this telecast from January 23, 1962, Li'l Abner star Leslie Parrish appears with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Clem and the Kadiddlehopper Hop." Mountain gal Daisy June (Leslie) teaches her boyfrined Clem how to dance the Twist. They then enter a dance contest, little realizing that Clem's Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 02

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Juliet Prowse joins Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "The Greatest Schmo on Earth." Searching for his wandering sweetheart Daisy June (Juliet), Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) finds her working as a carnival fortuneteller. In the Silent Spot, Red pantomimically portrays an over-the-hill cowboy star. Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 10

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Singer Bobby Rydell and actress Audrey Meadows make return visits to Red Skelton's Tuesday-night laughfest. In the comedy sketch "Who Put the Bobby Sox in Mr. Appleby's Chowder?," pop singer Roland Rock (Bobby Rydell), besieged by bobbysoxers, hides out at the home of George and Clara Appleby (Red Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 01

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On September 25, 1962, Red Skelton launched his 12th year in television with an expanded version of his long-running comedy/variety series. Reflecting the fact that Red now had an extra half-hour to play with, his show was rechristened The Red Skelton Hour. His guests on this occasion were Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 11

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Singer Rosemary Clooney and impressionist Will Jordan are Red Skelton's guests on this episode from December 11, 1962. In the comedy sketch "Once Upon a Flea," TV host Ed Shewllivan (Jordan), ever in search of new and exciting variety acts, hires a talking flea owned by hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 13

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: At least half of this 60-minute episode from December 25, 1962 is devoted to a rerun of Red Skelton's pantomime sketch "Freddie and the Yuletide Doll", which first aired on December 19, 1961. Cara Williams joins Red in a story about Freddie the Freeloader's brief fling with a real live dancing Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Hour: Season 12, Episode 12

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this episode from December 18, 1962, Gordon and Sheila McRae sing a medley of their hits, and join Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "How the West Was Lost." Chased out of the Wide Open Spaces, Sheriff Deadeye (Red) and his gal Sheila (Sheila, of course) match wits with big-city gambler Lucky Read More

    1962

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 25

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this telecast from May 2, 1961, Marilyn Maxwell costars with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Appleby's Castle." Bickering couple George and Clara Appleby (Red and Marilyn) are thrilled to discover that they've inherited a British country estate from their late Uncle Horace. They are less than Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 24

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Billy Gilbert makes another Red Skelton Show guest appearance in the comedy sketch "Clem the Genius." Gilbert and Roland Winters plays doctors Schuman and Brown, who administer an "intelligence pill" to vacuous Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red). Suddenly the brainiest brain in America, Clem ends up as a Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 26

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's comedy sketch is titled "Cauliflower and the Fight Fix." Hoping to earn enough money to marry his manicurist girlfriend, over-the-hill prizefighter Cauliflower McPugg (Red Skelton) opens up his own barbershop. After innumerable slapstick haircut routines, McPugg makes a fool of himself Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 28

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This Red Skelton Show from May 23, 1961 is brightened by the presence of Don Knotts from The Andy Griffith Show and Amanda Blake from Gunsmoke. In the comedy sketch "San Fernando and Herbie", confidence trickster San Fernando Red (Skelton) fleeces the suckers with a travelling talent contest Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 27

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this broadcast from May 16, 1961, Sebastian Cabot is Red Skelton's unlikely teammate in the comedy sketch "Freddie's Shipwreck." It all begins when hoboes Freddie (Red) and Muggsy (Sebastian) bluff their away onto an ocean liner with "borrowed" tickets. To avoid capture, the boys spread a rumor Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 20

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Having recuperated from his recent surgery, Red Skelton returned to his weekly TV-series grind with the broadcast of March 14 1961. Ed Wynn, one of Skelton's personal heroes, guest-starred as Muggsy the tramp in a "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch. The premise: Freddie and Muggsy find an abandoned Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 16

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In January of 1961, comedian Red Skelton underwent radical surgery, forcing him to miss several episodes of his weekly @CBS. During his convalescence, several of Red's show business friends subbed for him, including Danny Thomas, Garry Moore, Arthur Godfrey and Jackie Gleason. Of these "non-Red" Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 21

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The recent John Wayne movie blockbuster The Alamo is roundly skewered in the March 28, 1961 edition of The Red Skelton Show. In the comedy sketch "Deadeye at the Alamo," Sheriff Deadeye (Red) claims to be the sole survivor of the famed Texas battle. He also recalls how he "won" the skirmish all by Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 23

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this episode from April 18, 1961, Red Skelton offers a "Freddie the Freeloader" comedy sketch. It all begins when Freddie (Red) and his hobo pal Muggsy (Allen Jenkins) find an old piano in the City Dump. The two bums decide to organize a band and go on television. Real-life game show emcee Steve Dunne Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 22

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Hans Conried and Leslie Parrish join Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Clem's Theater." Conried portrays Mr. Randolph, a pretentious Shakesperean actor who wants to rent the barn owned by Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) for a summer stage production. The trouble begins when Clem's sweetheart Daisy June Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 13

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Originally telecast December 19, 1961, this Christmas episode of The Red Skelton Show represented the first presentation of the classic all-pantomime sketch "Freddie and the Yuletide Doll." While everyone else is hustling about prepared for the Holidays, Freddie the Freeloader (Red) is more Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 33

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Cara Williams guest stars in Red Skelton's final TV show for the 1960-61 season. In the comedy sketch "Appleby's Remote Control", henpecked George Appleby (Red) tries to figure a way to get out of doing all the housework. His solution results in a genuine "Twilight Zone" dilemma for himself and Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 12

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's guests on this episode from December 12, 1961 are Gunsmoke costar Amanda Blake and former Phil Silvers Show regular Maurice Gosfield (aka "Doberman"). In a "San Fernando Red" sketch, con artists San Fernando (Skelton) and Ruby (Amanda) are selling phony deeds for tropical islands. A Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 10

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: John Carradine and Marie Windsor costar with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "The Great Brain Robbery." While looking for a new job, hapless George Appleby gets mixed up with mad scientist Dr. Prager (Carradine), who wants to send a gorilla into outer space with a human brain (guess whose?) Marie Windsor Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 11

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Cedric Hardwycke appears with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Mr. K Goes to College," the title of which was a play on Hardwycke's then-current TV sitcom Mrs. G. Goes to College. The fun begins when distinguished Dean Whitney (Hardwycke) of Kadiddlehopper College prepares to welcome the grandson Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 14

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this telecast from December 26, 1961, Red Skelton rings in the New Year with one of his favorite guest stars, actress Marilyn Maxwell. In the comedy sketch "Appleby's Office Party," henpecked George Appleby is placed under hypnosis. Told that he is all-powerful and a giant among men, George Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 29

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton appears in this telecast from May 30, 1961 in the dual role of bucolic Clem Kadiddlehooper and larcenous Bolivar Shagnasty in this episode. In the comedy sketch "Clem's Watermelons," our hero's booze-filled melons sell like hotcakes during Prohibition. Sensing a quick financial Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 30

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this broadcast from June 6, 1961, Vivian Vance joins Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Appleby's Sleepwalk." Upon discovering that her kitchen refrigerator has been raided, Clara Appleby (Vivian) thinks that the house has been burglarized. In truth, it's only her husband George (Red), who makes Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 32

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The TV series Candid Clem is spoofed in the Red Skelton Show comedy sketch "Candid Clem." Hoping to catch hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) in the act of "being himself", the staff of the weekly TVer "Hidden Camera" wire Clem's horse for sound. Tonight's "guest star" is Champion, the famous mount Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 31

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Jackie Coogan makes another return visit to The Red Skelton Show. In the comedy sketch "Freddie Gets Sick," Coogan plays Dr. Benson of the City Board of Health. Hoping to close down the City Dump as a health menace, Benson finds that he has no grounds-especially since the dump's most famous Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 15

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In January of 1961, comedian Red Skeltonunderwent radical surgery, forcing him to miss several episodes of his weekly CBS series. During his convalescence, several of Red's show business friends subbed for him, including Danny Thomas, Garry Moore, Arthur Godfrey and Jackie Gleason. Of these Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 06

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Rhonda Fleming is Red Skelton's guest in this telecast from October 31, 1961. In the comedy sketch "Freddie's Romance", Freddie the Freeloader crashes a high society party, where he meets beautiful debutante Phyllis (Rhonda). The girl's mother, believing that Freddie is an eccentric millionaire Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 07

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Audrey Meadows joins Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "The Almost Late George Appleby." While Clara Appleby (Audrey) is taking out a life insurance policy on her husband George, George is simultaneously purchasing a policy on Clara's life. The two Applebys spend the rest of the sketch convinced Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 05

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Singer Bobby Rydell makes another amusing Red Skelton Show appearance on this broadcast from October 24, 1961. This time, Bobby plays a young naif who is talked into buying a piece of washed-up prizefighter Cauliflower McPugg (Red). Somewhere along the way, Rydell not only gets to sing, but Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 03

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Dennis the Menace star Jay North makes his second appearance on The Red Skelton Show. In a "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch, North plays a wealthy youngster who visits Freddie's shack in the City Dump-then decides to "adopt" the happy hobo. Typical gags include a bit wherein Freddie's fingers are Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 04

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The popular western series Have Gun Will Travel is parodied on the October 17, 1961 edition of The Red Skelton Show. In the comedy sketch "Deadeye and the Gunslinger", crooked Sheriff Deadeye dons a mask to stage robberies, then dashes back without the mask promising to capture himself! To stem Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 02

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Eve Arden is Red Skelton's guest on this program from October 3, 1961. In a "George Appleby" comedy sketch, henpecked George discovers that he and his shrewish wife Clara (Eve Arden) are not legally married. Curiously, ABC's The Flintstones used the same basic plotline at around the same time Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 01

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On September 26, 1961, Red Skelton began his 11th year on television in a new Tuesday-night timeslot: 9:00 PM EST instead of his customary 9:30 (which was now occupied by a filmed sitcom, Ichabod and Me. Red's guest for his opening program was Jayne Mansfield, who appeared in the comedy sketch Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 11

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this broadcast from January 3, 1961, Red Skelton tells jokes about his New Year's celebration and appears in a "San Fernando Red" comedy sketch. This time out, the loveably larcenous Red creates "San Fernandocal", a miracle weight-reducing formula. The trouble begins when a pair of crooks try Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 08

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's guest on this telecast from November 14, 1961 is erudite character actor Hans Conried. In the comedy sketch "Clem's Other Clem", it is learned that country bumpkin Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) was switched at birth with wealthy Lawrence Van Clive (Conried). As a result, Clem is Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 11, Episode 09

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Two of America's greatest clowns-Red Skelton and Ed Wynn-were teamed on this Thanksgiving show, which first aired November 21, 1961. In the comedy sketch "Once Upon a Turkey," hoboes Freddie the Freeloader (Red) and Muggsy (Ed) arrive at their favorite skid-row mission just in time to be late for Read More

    1961

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 13

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton welcomes sultry singer Julie London and former child star Jackie Coogan to his telecast of January 5, 1960. In the comedy sketch "Clem the Disc Jockey," hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) operates a radio station in his Uncle's general store. A big-city manager (Jackie) approaches Clem Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 22

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Guest star Vincent Price satirizes his real-life status as an art connoisseur in the comedy sketch "Freddie's Masterpiece." While rummaging through the city dump, Freddie the Freeloader (Red Skelton and his pal Muggsy (Jackie Coogan) find an orginal DaVinci painting. Art expert Mr. Gilbert (Price) Read More

    1960

  • Ocean's Eleven

    Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson

    Synopsis: During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off four Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 20

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The fabulous Mae West makes one of her rare TV appearances on this episode of The Red Skelton Show from March 1, 1960. In the main comedy sketch, Mae shows up on the panel show "Meet the Author" to discuss her recently published autobiography {^Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It}. She surprises Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 19

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton offers his own spin on the popular TV crime series The Untouchables. During the Roaring 20s, dimwitted thug Bolivar Shangasty (Red) mixes up a bathtub full of bootleg beer. The stuff proves so potent that Bolivar is "invited" to join the gang headed by Scarface (Gerald Mohr). Barbara Nichols Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 23

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Keefe Brasselle and George O'Hanlon (the latter famous for his voiceover role as George Jetson) join Red Skelton in a spoof of 77 Sunset Strip. In the comedy sketch "Clem the Private Eye," Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) is an elevator operator, working in the same building as private investigators Mr. Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 21

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This half-hour Red Skelton Show was one of Red's few live telecasts for the 1959-60 season; for the most part, he had "converted" to videotape, enabling him to adlib to his heart's content while the tape editor made certain that the show came in on time. In the comedy sketch "Deadeye the Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 18

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Marilyn Maxwell guest-stars in one of Red Skelton's few live telecasts of the 1959-60 season. In the main comedy sketch, George Appleby (Red) attends a boat show, where he makes a deal to purchase the vessel of his dreams. Alas, George's wife Clara (Marilyn) has already blown their joint bank Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 15

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Edward Everett Horton and Dick Foran costar with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Freddie in Las Vegas." Freddie the Freeloader (Red) and his hobo pal Muggsy (Horton) arrive in Vegas, expecting to receive a letter containing a large amount of money. But when the letter arrives, there is two cents Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 14

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This episode of The Red Skelton Show from January 12, 1960 is essentially a half-hour promo for the film version of the Broadway musical Li'l Abner. Red's guest include Al Capp, creator of the original "Li'l Abner" comic strip, and three of the film's stars: Peter Palmer (Abner), Leslie Parrish Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 17

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Pop-music sensation Fabian makes his second appearance on The Red Skelton Show. Fabe and Red participate in a "San Fernando Red" sketch spoofing the music industry. Somehow or other, there's time left over for Fabian's rendition of "About This Thing Called Love. This episode aired February 2 Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 16

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this broadcast from January 26, 1960, veteran movie tough guy George Raft joins Red Skelton in a "Cauliflower McPugg" sketch. In order to arrange a fixed fight, crooked promoter Mike McCluskey (Raft) must locate the world's worst boxer. He finds his man in the form of washed-up champ Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 09

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: British "blonde bombshell" Diana Dors is Red Skelton's guest on this episode from December 6, 1960. In a "George Appleby" comedy sketch, George's wife Clara expresses jealousy over their beautiful next-door neighbor Joan Williams (Diana). It helps matters not at all when George is accidentally Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 26

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Audrey Meadows joins Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Clem's Fountain of Youth." The titular fountain is the genuine article, making centennarian Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) and his even older parents look like spring chickens. Aging actress Gloria Castle (Meadows) insists upon partaking of Clem's Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 27

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's comedy sketch is titled "Super-Cauliflower." Basil Rathbone and Elena Verdugo appear respectively as Hugh Rubicoff and Ruth Sanders, a pair of slightly mad scientists who have created a strength serum. They use their concoction on an unwitting human guinea pig: Over-the-hill prizefighter Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 24

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's comedy sketch, "San Fernando for Governor", takes place in a unnamed big city during an unspecified earlier decade. On the lam for selling phony furs, con artist San Fernando Red (Red Skelton) and his cohort Ruby (Amanda Blake) have a run-in with Mayor Edgar G. Mathews (Billy Gilbert). Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 25

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Child actor Jay North is Red Skelton's guest. In a "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch, carefree hobo Freddie is forced to look after the contentious Dennis the Menace-played, of course, by North. First telecast April 5, 1960, this episode went over so well that Jay North made a return appearance with Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 28

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Cesar Romero is Red Skelton'sguest on this episode from May 3, 1960. In the comedy sketch "San Fernando's Marriage Mill", San Fernando Red (Skelton) and fellow con artist Handsome Al (Romero) are in charge of a matchmaking racket. The trouble begins when a homicidal client demands a refund-or Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 31

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton closed out his 9th TV season with a virtuoso performance in the comedy sketch "The Many Skeltons." Relentlessly plugging the new film version of the Broadway musical Bells are Ringing, guest star Marilyn Maxwell plays Esther, the main receptionist at the Weansweryourphone Answering Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Timex Special

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton headlines this 60-minute, full-color "tribute" to Hollywood Boulevard. Among Red's guests are such nominally well-known personalities as Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, George Raft, Bobby Rydell and William Demarest. While strolling down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Red pays pantomimic Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 29

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: An all-star cast appears with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Clem and the Beanstalk." This time it is Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red), rather than Jack, who sells his cow to con man Throckmorton (Jack Albertson) in exchange for a handful of beans. When he climbs the inevitable beanstalk, Clem ends up Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 30

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Vivian Vance joins Red Skelton in the domestic comedy sketch "Appleby's Fallout Shelter." Dithery henpecked husband George Appleby (Red) fears the worst when he hears what sounds like an air-raid siren. Actually, it's his wife Clara (Vivian), rehearsing for a community production of Madame Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 05

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Jackie Coogan joins Red Skelton in tonight's comedy sketch. Way back in the 17th century, a wheeler-dealer real estate agent (Coogan) tries to purchase Manhattan Island from the Indians. Unfortunately, someone else has already laid claim to the property-and that someone is colonial hobo Freddie Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 04

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Vincent Price and Marie Windsor are Red Skelton's guests on this telecast from October 18, 1960. In a comedy sketch, Price appears as Maxwell the Magician, who also sidelines as a pickpocket. Sheriff Deadeye (Red) vows to bring Maxwell to justice-or at least to lay claim to some of the stolen Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 06

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The recent spate of Senate Investigating Committee hearings is lampooned in the November 1, 1960 episode of The Red Skelton Show. In the main comedy sketch, long-winded con artist San Fernando Red (Skelton) is hauled before just such a hearing. But by the time San Fernando is through, the Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 08

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: First shown on November 29, 1960, this was only Red Skelton Show of the 1960-61 season to be telecast in color. In the main comedy sketch, Red assumes the guise of bucolic buffoon Clem Kadiddlehopper. Discovering he has the ability to talk to animals, Clem decides to become an animal psychiatrist Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 07

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Virginia Grey shows up for yet another "George Appleby" sketch. This time, henpecked George (Red Skelton) invents a time machine. When his wife Clara (Virginia Grey) nags him about wasting his time, George stuffs Clara in the machine and whisks her off to parts unknown. Joan Lahav appears in the Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 10

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Knowing upon which side his bread is buttered, Red Skelton offers a half-hour tribute to his sponsor, Johnson's Wax. First telecast December 27, 1960, this episode was taped on location at the Johnson's plant in Racine, Wisconsin (made famous on innumerable "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio programs. Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 01

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Videotaped at the United Nations in honor of that organization's 15th anniversary, "Laughter, the Universal Language" served as the opening broadcast of Red Skelton's 10th television season. Before a distinguished audience of delegates, politicians, and journalists, Skelton offered a brilliant Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 02

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Guest star Vivian Vance reprises her characterization of shrewish Clara Appleby in the comedy sketch "Appleby's Predictions." Red Skelton plays henpecked husband George Appleby, who has of late been experiencing clairvoyant dreams, enabling him to predict the outcome of the World Series. George's Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 10, Episode 03

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In a takeoff of the recent "Great Debates" between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, guest star William Demarest appears as Burnside, a big-city political boss. Casting about for pliable candidate to run in an upcoming election, Burnside selects that prominent vagabond Freddie the Freeloader (Red Read More

    1960

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 25

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Marilyn Maxwell is Red Skelton's guest on this episode from April 21, 1959 In the comedy sketch "Appleby's Formula", put-upon househusband George Appleby (Red) cooks up a mixture that can remove smog from the air. But George's wife Clara (Maxwell) discovers that the formula can also remove other Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 22

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's comedy sketch is titled "George's Band." Ordered by his wife Clara (Mary Beth Hughes to rent their spare room, henpecked George Appleby obliges by welcoming a pretty female tenant. Vetoing George's shapely selection, Clara chooses instead a beatnik musician named Bugs (Mickey Rooney) and Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 23

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton makes his final appearance as Cookie the Sailor in this filmed episode from April 7, 1959. Cookie and his pal Gabby (Gil Stratton Jr.) want to attend a deck party honoring Japanese beauty queen Lotus Blossom (Nobu McCarthy), but are thrown in the brig by Warrant Officer Muldoon (Jackie Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 24

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this episode from April 14, 1959, guest star John Carradine joins Red Skelton in a "Sheriff Deadeye" sketch. The townsfolk are stunned when local bigwig Slim Jim (Carradine) appoints Deadeye (Red) as a federal marshal. It turns out that Jim is a rustler who intends to send Deadeye to Boot Hill Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 30

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The rock-music industry was thoroughly lampooned in this June 2, 1959 episode of The Red Skelton Show. In the comedy sketch "Freddie the Singer," hoboes Freddie the Freeloader (Red) and Muggsy (Frank McHugh) visit a music store and inadverently cut a record. Before long, the recording scores a Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 29

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Audrey Totter, an actress most closely associated with intense dramatic roles, exhibits a fine comedy flair in this vintage episode of The Red Skelton Show. In the main sketch, timid George Appleby Richard "Red" Skelton witnesses a gangland murder. Terrified, he barricades himself in his own Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 28

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Wanda Hendrix guest-stars in the comedy sketch "San Fernando the Swami." With his assistant Zenobia (Wanda), confidence trickster San Fernando Red runs a phony séance racket. His latest patsy is wealthy widow Mrs. Vanderveer, played by Barbara Morrison in one of the first of her many "fat lady" Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 26

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In honor of Mother's Day, Red Skelton offers a seriocomic "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch. In the company of his pal Muggsy (played by Jack Benny's longtime announcer Don Wilson), Freddie crashes a high-soceity Mother's Day party. In the course of events, he brings a little sunshine into the lives Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 27

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Peter Lorre makes a return appearance to The Red Skelton Show in this episode from May 12, 1959. In a comedy sketch, Red plays a salesman who peddles vacuum cleaners door to door. His career-and his life-nearly come to an end when he stops at the home of a mad scientist (Lorre). Also appearing are Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 21

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Red Skelton, James Flavin, Phil Arnold, Frank Lovejoy

    Synopsis: This filmed episode of The Red Skelton Show stars Frank Lovejoy as a gangster boss. Hiding from the cops, Lovejoy takes refuge in the City Dump shack of Freddie the Freeloader (Skelton), convincing Freddie's that he's merely a professional exterminator who uses bullets instead of bug spray. It Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 14

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's sketch is titled "Appleby and the Ice Man." While exploring the North Pole, George Appleby (Red Skelton) and his friend Saunders (Jan Arvan) find the body of a prehistoric man (Lon Chaney Jr.), perfectly preserved in ice. Bringing his discovery home, George quickly disovers that the cave Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 15

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Lee Aaker, who played Rusty on the old TV adventure series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, is Red Skelton's guest on this broadcast from February 3, 1959. In the comedy sketch "Cauliflower and the Kidnapers," washed-up prizefighter Cauliflower McPugg (Red) is hired to "toughen up" the pantywaist Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 13

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Musical comedy star Janis Paige appears with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Bashful Clem." Janis plays a pretty teach who is fond of hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red), but cannot get him to overcome his shyness around women. Her solution is to invite Clem to a masquerade party, where Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 11

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Edie Adams is Red Skelton's guest in this episode from January 6, 1959. Taking advantage of the 1898 Gold Rush, con artist supreme San Fernando Red (Skelton) and his moll Ruby (Edie) head to Nuggetsville, Alaska. Upon arrival, Red opens a salloon and sets up and assaying office, passing himself Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 12

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Ever since lapsing into Public Domain in the 1980s, this January 13, 1959 episode of The Red Skelton Show has popped up with great frequency in a number of home-video catalogues. In a "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch, hoboes Freddie and Alfred (Edward Everett Horton) agree to hide a black box Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 19

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Actress Terry Moore and leading man Cesar Romero are Red Skelton's guests in this episode from March 10, 1959. In a "San Fernando Red" sketch, con artist San Fernando loses his riverboat to gambler Clayton Harrison (Romero). To protect his daughter Mary Lou (Terry Moore) from Harrison's Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 20

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The hallowed halls of CBS' Hollywood studios provide the backdrop for this videotaped Red Skelton Show from March 17, 1959. Having graduated from a correspondence-course acting school, mountaineer Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) heads to CBS in search of work. Unable to get past the casting office, Clem Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 18

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This March 3, 1959 episode of The Red Skelton Show was taped on location in Southern Florida. In the comedy sketch "Clem at Miami Beach," vacationing hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) makes life miserable for a hotel staff. On the verge of being evicted, Clem manages to keep his room by agreeing Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 16

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's sketch is titled "Clem and the Merry Widow." Frequent Red Skelton Show supporting players Gerald Mohr and Mary Beth Hughes are cast as Philip and Velma, two crooks who run a lonely-hearts racket which benefits from killing off its clients. The pair's latest sucker: lovelorn hillbilly Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 17

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton shows up in his familiar guise of Freddie the Freeloader in this filmed episode from February 17, 1959. In the comedy sketch "Freddie Gets a Job", our hobo hero inherits a fortune from his late Uncle Mortimer. But there's one catch: To meet the terms of the will, Freddie must hold down Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 04

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: First broadcast on October 20, 1959, This color episode of The Red Skelton Show features Jane Russell, spoofing several of her movie roles. In the main comedy sketch, cowardly Sheriff Deadeye (Red) is ordered to bring in a dangerous bandit. Sure enough, the outlaw turns out to be a gorgeous woman Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 12

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Charles Ruggles and Terry Moore join Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Deadeye Turns In His Badge." Saloon gal Lululbelle (Moore) wants Sheriff Deadeye to quit his job. Deadeye refuses until he discovers that outlaw Big Pete is coming to town. Reasoning that discretion is the better part of Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 07

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This episode of The Red Skelton Show from November 17, 1959 is distinguished by the curious guest-star combination of Peter Lorre and Mercedes McCambridge. Tonight's main sketch: "Appleby the Weatherman." Once again ordered to find a job by his loudmouthed wife Clara (McCambridge), George gets a Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 06

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Teen idol Fabian is Red Skelton's guest on this program, which originally aired live from Hollywood on November 10, 1959. The evening's comedy sketch is appropriately titled "Freddie and Fabian." Discovered sleeping on a park bench by Fabian and his manager, hobo Freddie the Freeloader (Red) ends Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 01

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This full-color episode of The Red Skelton Show constituted both a beginning and an ending: It was Red's first program for the 1959-60 season, and it represented the final on-camera appearance of screen idol Errol Flynn. In the comedy sketch "Freddie's Beat Shack," Flynn plays a gentleman tramp Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 10

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Singer Bobby Rydell makes the first of many Red Skelton Show appearances on this full-color telecast from December 8, 1959. In the comedy sketch "Bolivar the Songwriter," pugnacious Bolivar Shagnasty (Red) is nagged by his prospective mother-in-law to get a job. Hoping to shut her mom up Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 11

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Only a handful of Red Skelton Shows were colorcast during the 1959-60 season. Red's home network CBS was then feuding with NBC, the industry leader in color telecasts; out of pique, CBSwould eventually show all their programs in black-and-white exclusively-a classic example of cutting off one's Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 05

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's guests on this episode from November 3, 1959 are two popular TV western stars: Guy Madison of The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok fame, and Gunsmoke's Amanda Blake. Both participate in the main comedy sketch, "San Fernando's Treasure Hunt." After selling a passel of phony treasure Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 03

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Eve Arden makes the first of several appearances as Clara Appleby, the nagging wife of put-upon George Appleby (Red Skelton). In the comedy sketch "Appleby's Bird Woman", George experiences all manner of nightmares after watching horror movies on the Late Late Show. Awakening the next morning, he Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 02

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Jayne Mansfield is Red Skelton's guest on this videotaped episode from October 6, 1959. In the comedy sketch "Clem's General Store," Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red) needs to earn some money so he can marry his hillbilly sweetie Daisy June (Jayne). That's why Clem goes to work at Mr. Tompkins' store Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 31

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Vincent Price guest-stars on this filmed episode of The Red Skelton Show. After Skelton comments upon the recent Russian rocket launchings in his monologue, we segue into a comedy sketch featuring Red's punchdrunk-pugilist character Cauliflower McPugg. Hired as a trainer for lazy movie idol Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 08

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Jayne Meadows guest-stars on Red Skelton's annual Thanksgiving program. In "San Fernando's Thanksgiving," loquacious con artist San Fernando (Skelton) cooks up his nastiest "scam" yet. Posing as a producer, he collects money from society ladies, ostensibly to stage a play for the Boy's Club. Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 09, Episode 09

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Teenaged Tuesday Weld, who was rapidly ascending to stardom by virtue of her appearances on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, is Red Skelton's guest on this episode from December 1, 1959. In the comedy sketch "Appleby the Big Producer," Clara Appleby (Mary Beth Hughes tells all her friends that her Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Chevy Special

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Fans of Red Skelton were treated to two TV appearances by their favorite comedian during the second week of October in 1959. In addition to his regular Tuesday-night series, Skelton presided over The Red Skelton Chevy Special on Friday, October 9. Taped at a Hollywood party honoring Red's 30th Read More

    1959

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 10

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Virginia Grey, who usually played Mrs. George Appleby on The Red Skelton Show, essays a different role on this episode from December 16, 1958. Tonight's sketch is titled "Clem the Interior Decorator," with Red in his familiar role of dimwitted mountaineer Clem Kadiddlehopper. With the help of a Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 01

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Liberace is the guest star in the opening telecast of Red Skelton's eighth season. Repeating a sketch he'd done earlier with Jackie Gleason, Red plays his beloved hobo character Freddie the Freeloader, with Liberace as Freddie's erudite pal Muggsy. The two tramps try to get into the World Series Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 05

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's comedy sketch is entitled "Clem Sings." Red Skelton plays hillbilly Clem Kadiddlehopper, who manages to wangle free singing lessons by claiming he has a "hidden talent." As a result, he ends up entangled in a legal case involving fraud and plagiarism. Celebrated crooner Rudy Vallee and Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 06

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Marilyn Maxwell appears with Red Skelton in the comedy sketch "Appleby Goes Hunting." Over the protests of his wife Clara (Marilyn), George Appleby (Red) embarks upon a hunting trip with several of his friends. During a sudden cloudburst, George and his fellow hunters take refuge in a cement Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 03

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The Great Quiz Show Scandal of the late 1950s was only in its early stages when this Red Skelton Show first appeared on October 14, 1958. In the main comedy sketch, roughneck Bolviar Shagnasty (Skelton) and his brassy girl friend (Barbara Nichols) appear as contestants on "The Million-Dollar Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 04

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Ann Rutherford, who costarred with Red Skelton in the "Whistling" comedy-mystery films of the early 1940s, appears in this October 21, 1958 edition of Skelton's weekly variety show. In the comedy sketch "Freddie and the Election," hoboes Freddie (Red) and Muggsy (Maxie Rosenbloom) show up in the Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 02

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The ongoing "Race for Space" provided the comedy fodder in the October 7, 1958 episode of The Red Skelton Show. In the comedy sketch "Clem and the Satellite", hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper (Skelton) rents his barn to scientist Dr. Offenbacher (John Carradine). After accidentally launching Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 09

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this Red Skelton Show from December 2, 1958, Marvin Kaplan joins Red Skelton in a rewritten reprise of a sketch that the two actors performed on Skelton's TV show back in 1956. This time around, Army private Bolivar Shagnasty (Red) tries to arrange a date between his shy buddy (Marvin) and a Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 07

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This evening's filmed comedy sketch is "Deadeye, the Indian Scout." Red Skelton is cast as bumbling westerner Sheriff Deadeye, who on this occasion agrees to lead Easterners Mr. Talbot (Jack Kirkwood) and his daughter Mary Lou (Vanessa Brown). Needless to say, the little party is promptly captured Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 08, Episode 08

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: William Frawley guest-stars in this all-pantomime Thanksgiving show from November 25, 1958. Broke and hungry as usual, Freddie the Freeloader (Red Skelton) tries to cadge a free Thanksgiving meal at the home of wealthy Mr. Thomas. Also appearing are James Burke as Clancy the Cop (who figures into Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 23

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Billy Gilbert appears in the comedy sketch "Clem the Photographer." The life of rural rube Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red Skelton) is placed in dire jeopardy when Clem snaps a picture of gangsters pulling off a "caper." Gilbert plays Clem's uncle, whose protracted sneezes are good for several long Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 14

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: "Twin titans of terror" John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr. guest-star in this full-color episode from January 7, 1958. Henpecked George Appleby (Red Skelton) goes to work as a lab assistant for a pair of mad scientists (Chaney and Carradine). Before he knows what has happened, George has become the Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 21

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The "mad scientist" sketch on the January 7, 1958 edition of The Red Skelton Show went over so well that Red decided to repeat the entire routine on his program of March 11. In the original, Red played George Appleby, the lab assistant to transplant-happy mad scientists John Carradine and Lon Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 26

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Originally scheduled for a later date, this filmed episode of The Red Skelton Show was moved up to April 15, 1958 to capitalize on the recent Academy Award nomination of guest star Sessue Hayakawa. In a "Cookie the Sailor" sketch, Cookie and his Army pal (Lon Chaney Jr.) are shipwrecked on a Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 25

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Just as he did on the Red Skelton Show broadcast of April 23, 1957, Red appears in the dual role of henpecked George Appleby and roughneck Bolivar Shagnasty. While working at a construction site, Bolivar is knocked unconscious. When he awakens, he imagines himself to be George Appleby, causing no Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 24

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Actress Ruth Hussey joins Red Skelton in a "San Fernando Red" comedy sketch. Running for re-election to the town assembly, crooked politico San Fernando (Skelton) is accused of stuffing ballot boxes. Since our hero is guilty as sin, his next step is to discredit his accusers, a task at which he is Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 18

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Dithery character comedian Franklin Pangborn appears in this episode of The Red Skelton Show, which originally aired in color on February 18, 1958. Skelton himself plays garage owner George Appleby, who at the behest of his amateur-sleuth wife Clara (Mary Beth Hughes) tries to prove that Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 17

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: One of the few readily available episodes from The Red Skelton Show's 1957-1958 season, this one features a guest appearance by future Rhoda and McMillan and Wife regular Nancy Walker. In the main comedy sketch, Red plays the habitually unemployed Bolivar Shagnasty. Pressured by his girl friend Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 16

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This full-color episode from January 28, 1958 is highlighted by a "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch. Veteran movie tough guy Gerald Mohr is cast as a bank robbery who dumps his loot in the City Dump. What Mohr doesn't know is that the dump serves as the home of happy hobo Freddie (Red), who regards Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 20

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In a reprise of one of his classic routines, Red Skelton plays novice dental-school student Clem Kadiddlehopper. Though Red always professed to hate dentist sketches, he never failed to deliver a veritable smorgasbord of laughs, as he does in this full-color telecast. Assisting Skelton on this Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 15

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Jayne Meadows joins Red Skelton in a filmed "Cauliflower McPugg" sketch. Jayne is cast as Ruthie, the girl friend of punchy prizefighter McPugg (Skelton). Ordered by Ruthie to go into a safer line of work, Cauliflower is hoodwinked into purchasing a reducing salon that has been slated for Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 19

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The highlight of this full-color episode from February 25, 1958 is a gadget-laden "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch. The ball begins rolling when Freddie (Red Skelton) and his fellow bum Muggsy rescue a trainload of passengers during a driving rainstorm. As a reward, Freddie is installed in a Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 30

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The main attraction of this full-color Red Skelton Show episode is the comedy sketch "Appleby Wins a House." Appearing on a TV quiz program, henpecked George Appleby (Red) and his wife Clara (Marie Wilson) win a fully-furnished Dream House-which, predictably, turns out to be a nightmare. Don Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 31

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Charles Ruggles and Marie Windsor join Red Skelton in a "Freddie the Freeloader" sketch. Ruggles plays ailing millionaire Mr. Jennings, who while strolling through the park befriends happy hobo Freddie. Jennings invites Freddie to his lavish mansion, where our hero stumbles upon a plot hatched by Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 22

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Perennial "dumb blonde" Marie Wilson is the special guest star on this color episode of The Red Skelton Show from March 18, 1958. The main comedy sketch casts Red as addle-brained boxer Cauliflower McPugg. Once again, Cauliflower's sweetie Ruthie (Wilson) tries to persuade the punchy pugilist to Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 28

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Tonight's comedy sketch is "Appleby's Midnight Ride." After getting a blow on the head, 20th century history teacher George Appleby (Red Skelton) dreams that he's Paul Revere. The problem: Paul's nagging wife wants him to stay home at night! This episode originally aired live and in color on April Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 29

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The recent drafting of Elvis Presley was the inspiration for the Red Skelton Show comedy sketch "San Fernando's Singing Sensation." Vocalist Randy Sparks stars as backwoods crooner Johnny Clark, whom crooked promoter San Fernando Red (Skelton) discovers and promotes to stardom. The trouble begins Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 27

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This full-color edition of The Red Skelton Show from April 22, 1958, features John Carradine and Franklin Pangborn in the comedy sketch "Clem the Artist." Carradine is cast as painter Gregory Reeves, who chooses feckless farm boy Clem Kadiddlehopper (Skelton) as his newest protegee. In one of his Read More

    1958

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 01

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Two of Hollywood's favorite blondes, Marie Wilson and Marilyn Maxwell, help Red Skelton usher in his seventh TV season on October 1, 1957. Keeping abreast of current events, the evening's main comedy sketch concerns itself with the ongoing construction of LA's Chavez Ravine stadium. Things come to Read More

    1957

  • Public Pigeon No. 1

    Actors: Red Skelton, Vivian Blaine, Janet Blair, Jay C. Flippen, Allyn Joslyn

    Synopsis: Red Skelton's final film starring vehicle is an expansion of an hour-long TV play, which also starred Skelton when it was originally seen in September of 1955 on the weekly anthology Climax!. Skelton plays doltish lunchroom attendant Rusty Morgan, who is dutifully saving up enough money so that he Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 13

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In honor of New Year's Eve, Red Skelton reprises his characterization of perpetual souse Willie Lump Lump. Guest star Mercedes McCambridge costars as Willie's wife, who desperately tries to sober up her hubby before the arrival of her Uncle Clarence (Charles Ruggles), the head of the local Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 12

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Adhering to tradition, Red Skelton appears as Freddie the Freeloader in his annual Christmas show. This time around, Freddie stages a Christmas party for his fellow hoboes, with the assistance of the Genie in Aladdin's Lamp. Oscar-winning actor James Dunn costars as Muggsy in this filmed episode Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 11

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Mickey Rooney guest-stars in this full-color Red Skelton Show entry from December 17, 1957. In the main comedy sketch, ageing sheriff Zak O'Toole prepares for a showdown with desperado Deadeye (Skelton). Too old to polish off Deadeye himself, Zak passes the responsibility along to his pantywaist Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 10

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: First telecast December 10, 1957, this filmed episode of The Red Skelton Show casts Red as hapless hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper. While visiting Mexico, Clem decides to become a bullfighter to impress lovely senorita Dolores (guest star Rita Moreno), the daughter of a fight promoter. Inevitably, our Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 06

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Peter Lorre makes a return appearance to The Red Skelton Show in this "living color" episode from November 5, 1957. It all begins when Clara Appleby nags her husband George (Red) into building a backyard patio and barbecue. George's subsequent excavation uncovers evidence of an old crime-thereby Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 05

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Less than four weeks after the launching of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, this momentous historical event served as grist for the comedy mill on the October 29, 1957 edition of The Red Skelton Show. In the comedy sketch "Cookie and the Satellite", sailor Cookie (Skelton) and his pal Gabby (future Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 08

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Lola Albright, who played a prim Priscilla Alden in the 1956 Thanksgiving episode of The Red Skelton Show, returned to the series on November 19, 1957, in a radically different characterization. Mistaken for a top nuclear scientist, hobo Freddie the Freeloader (Skelton) is kidnaped by enemy Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 09

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Edward Everett Horton guest-stars in Red Skelton's Thanksgiving show from November 26, 1957. This time out, hobo Freddie the Freeloader is saddled with the responsibility of entertaining his sister's family for the Holidays. Horton appears as Freddie's indigent pal Alfred, who helps Freddie hide Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 07

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Vincent Price camps it up on this full-color Red Skelton Show entry from November 12, 1957. Price is cast as Mr. Pierre, a famous men's fashion designer. Mr. Pierre's career rapidly goes into the toilet after he hires bumbling Clem Kadiddlehopper (Red Skelton) as a stockboy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 02

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: On this telecast from October 8, 1957.Hans Conried guest-stars as the muckraking author of a book exposing the Mob. To keep himself from being bumped off, Conried signs Clem Kadiddlehopper's name to the book. The episode's high point finds the monumentally stupid Clem (Red Skelton) being Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 04

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: First telecast on October 22, 1957, this color episode of The Red Skelton Show features Cesar Romero. In the principal comedy sketch, Romero plays an advertising executive who is desperately seeking a new TV western star. His final selection: Sheriff Deadeye (Red Skelton), the Slowest Gun in the Read More

    1957

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 07, Episode 03

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Virginia Grey joins Red Skelton in his first color telecast of the 1957-58 season. In a "George Appleby"sketch, henpecked George is entered in a baking contest by his ambitious spouse Clara. Predictably, there are plenty of plays on words about "dough," "crust" and "loaf", and an abundance of Read More

    1957

  • Around the World in 80 Days

    Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

    Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

    1/1/56

  • Climax!: Public Pigeon No. 1

    Actors: Red Skelton

    1956

  • Climax!: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    1955

  • Susan Slept Here

    Actors: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Alvy Moore, Glenda Farrell

    Synopsis: Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing itself, the Oscar statuette invites us into the apartment home of its owner, screenwriter Mark Christopher Dick Powell. Knowing that Mark is working on a script about juvenile Read More

    1954

  • The Great Diamond Robbery

    Actors: Red Skelton, Cara Williams, James Whitmore, Kurt Kasznar, Dorothy Stickney

    Synopsis: MGM was never quite sure what to do with their resident funster Red Skelton, and The Great Diamond Robbery betrays this uncertainty. Skelton plays Ambrose C. Park, a diamond cutter who is led to believe that he's the long-lost heir to a fortune. Actually, Ambrose has been duped by shyster lawyer Read More

    1953

  • The Clown

    Actors: Red Skelton, Tim Considine, Jane Greer, Loring Smith, Philip Ober

    Synopsis: An unofficial remake of The Champ, The Clown concerns Dodo Delwyn (Red Skelton), a down-and-out performer with abundant and obvious talent, but also a self-destructive tendency to overindulge his drinking and gambling habits. Once a Ziegfeld headliner, Dodo is now lucky to get jobs playing a clown Read More

    1953

  • Half a Hero

    Actors: Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Charles Dingle, Willard Waterman, Mary Wickes

    Synopsis: Red Skelton does his best with the situation-comedy trappings of Half a Hero. A sort of poor man's Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, the story concerns one Ben Dobson (Skelton), whose wife Martha (Jean Hagen) talks him into leaving the big city and moving into a suburban housing development. Read More

    1953

  • Lovely to Look At

    Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton, Marge Champion, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gower Champion

    Synopsis: The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the property and refilmed it under the title Lovely to Look At. Inheriting one-half of a Parisian dress salon from his late aunt, Red Skelton travels to France with his showbiz Read More

    1952

  • The Red Skelton Show: Red Displays His Emmies, 1952

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This kinescope of Red Skelton's February 24, 1952 telecast is one of the few episodes extant from Red's NBC years. In his opening monologue, Red proudly displays his two Emmy awards, then thanks the audience and the entertainment industry for these honors. Sketches include a spoof of British Read More

    1952

  • Excuse My Dust

    Actors: Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, MacDonald Carey, William Demarest, Monica Lewis

    Synopsis: Excuse My Dust is one of the few Red Skelton musicals in which Skelton is not obliged to share screen space with the likes of Eleanor Powell, Esther Williams or Fernando Lamas. Set in 1900, the film stars Red as zany inventor Joe Belden. Enchanted by the new-fangled horseless carriages, Belden Read More

    1951

  • Texas Carnival

    Actors: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Paula Raymond

    Synopsis: MGM's new musical screen team of Esther Williams and Howard Keel were given plenty to do in the pleasant if unambitious songfest Texas Carnival. Williams plays Debbie Telford, one-half of a carnival performing team. The other half is Corny Quinnell (Red Skelton), who breaks up the act when he is Read More

    1951

  • Popsicle Parade / The Red Skelton Show

    1951

  • The Red Skelton Show: Season 01, Episode 01

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Still extremely busy with his film and radio career, Richard "Red" Skelton made his weekly TV debut on September 30, 1951, with this live, half-hour program from New York. Wasting no time, Skelton reprised several of his favorite characters, including hayseed Clem Kadiddlehopper (performing a duet Read More

    1951

  • Watch the Birdie

    Actors: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller

    Synopsis: Watch the Birdie is a remake of Buster Keaton's The Cameraman; in fact, Keaton served as technical advisor, though it seems that most of his advice went unheeded. Red Skelton stars as photo-shop proprietor Rusty Cameron, who dreams of becoming an ace cinematographer. This gets him mixed up with a Read More

    1950

  • The Fuller Brush Girl

    Actors: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins, Jeff Donnell

    Synopsis: Hot on the heels of such Red Skelton slapstick comedies as The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man came The Fuller Brush Girl, starring Lucille Ball in a fascinating dry run for her wacky "Lucy Ricardo" TV character. Unable to hold a job because of her tendency to get into trouble, Sally Read More

    1950

  • Three Little Words

    Actors: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen, Arlene Dahl, Keenan Wynn

    Synopsis: MGM's Three Little Words is a "twin" musical biopic, covering the lives and careers of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Fred Astaire plays Kalmar, a frustrated magician, while Red Skelton is cast as Ruby, a wannabe baseball player. After "meeting cute" during a disastrous vaudeville show Read More

    1950

  • The Duchess of Idaho

    Actors: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, John Lund, Paula Raymond, Clinton Sundberg

    Synopsis: This formula Esther Williams musical casts the star as Midwestern carnival swimmer Christine Duncan, in love with bandleader Dick Layn (Van Johnson). Attempting to smooth the course of romance for her friend Ellen Hallet (Paula Raymond), Christine makes a play for Ellen's wealthy boss Douglas J. Read More

    1950

  • The Yellow Cab Man

    Actors: Red Skelton, Gloria de Haven, Walter Slezak, Edward Arnold, James Gleason

    Synopsis: Obviously inspired by the success of Red Skelton's The Fuller Brush Man, The Yellow Cab Man stars Skelton as a Rube Goldberg-type inventor who can't seem to stay out of trouble. He also can't hold down a job, either, much to the consternation of girl friend Gloria De Haven. Through the auspices of Read More

    1950

  • Neptune's Daughter

    Actors: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn

    Synopsis: Esther Williams and Red Skelton share equal screen time for once in the MGM Technicolor musical Neptune's Daughter. The title character is, of course, Williams, here cast as Eve Barrett, a bathing-suit manufacturer (and sometimes model). Skelton plays Jack Spratt, the masseur at a fancy polo club Read More

    1949

  • A Southern Yankee

    Actors: Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, Lloyd Gough

    Synopsis: Hot on the heels of Columbia's The Fuller Brush Man, MGM released another Red Skelton gagfest, A Southern Yankee. Set during the Civil War, the film casts Skelton as bumbling bellboy Aubrey Filmore. Yearning to help the Northern cause by becoming an undercover spy, Aubrey succeeds beyond his Read More

    1948

  • Merton of the Movies

    Actors: Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames, Alan Mowbray

    Synopsis: The George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Merton of the Movies was previously filmed in 1923 with Glenn Hunter, and in 1932 (as Make Me a Star) with Stu Erwin. This time around, Red Skelton plays Merton, the small-town rube who aspires to become a dramatic actor in silent pictures. Bumbling his way Read More

    1947

  • Ziegfeld Follies

    Actors: Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly

    Synopsis: The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an impressionable viewer from thinking that this 1946 film is a Technicolor sequel to the 1936 Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld. Not so: this is more in the line of an all-star revue Read More

    1946

  • The Fuller Brush Man

    Actors: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke, Adele Jergens

    Synopsis: MGM knew it had a valuable property in Red Skelton, but the studio never really knew how to handle his unique talents -- until he was loaned out to Columbia for the hilarious, money-spinning slapstick comedy The Fuller Brush Man. The star plays Red Jones, a born screw-up who can't seem to hold Read More

    1946

  • The Show-Off

    Actors: Leon Ames, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, George Cleveland, Lila Leeds, Marjorie Main

    Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1926 and 1934, George Kelly's venerable stage comedy The Show-Off was dusted off as a Red Skelton vehicle in 1946. Skelton is well cast as Aubrey Piper, an inveterate braggart who sorely annoys the family of his wife Amy (Marilyn Maxwell). All talk but no action, Piper gets Read More

    1946

  • Bathing Beauty

    Actors: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Ethel Smith

    Synopsis: If you've never seen a '40s singing, swimming musical this may be the one to catch. Featuring a mammoth cast, including such notables as Xavier Cugat, Basil Rathbone, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams, this is a swimming spectacular. The plot's quite thin: Skelton plays a lovesick songwriter who Read More

    1944

  • Radio Bugs

    Actors: Bobby Blake, Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, Janet Burston, Brandon Hurst

    Synopsis: Inspired by the success of his favorite comedian Red Skelton, Our Gang member Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a radio star. Armed with a tattered joke book and a vast array of "funny" props, Froggy and the other gang members begin searching for a suitable radio sponsor, starting in the Read More

    1944

  • I Dood It

    Actors: Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Lena Horne, Patricia Dane, Richard Ainley, Sam Levene

    Synopsis: In later years, director Vincente Minnelli would dismiss I Dood It as his worst picture, though a more deserving candidate for that "honor" would be Minnelli's valedictory film A Matter of Time. In this remake of Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage, Red Skelton plays pants-presser Joseph Rivington Read More

    1943

  • Du Barry Was a Lady

    Actors: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien, Zero Mostel, Rags Ragland

    Synopsis: The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM. Richard "Red" Skelton takes over the role of Louis Blore (played on Broadway by Bert Lahr), while Lucille Ball steps into the shoes of the original play's Ethel Merman. The story proposes Read More

    1943

  • Whistling in Brooklyn

    Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers, Ray Collins

    Synopsis: The last of three films starring Red Skelton as ace radio detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, Whistling in Brooklyn opens with Fox and girl friend Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford) making final preparations for a trip to Niagara Falls, where they intend to get married. Of course, they've made these Read More

    1943

  • Thousands Cheer

    Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Mickey Rooney, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Red Skelton, Mary Astor, John Boles, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, José Iturbi

    Synopsis: Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his fellow serviceman. Along the way, Eddy falls in love with Kathryn Jones (Kathryn Grayson), the daughter of Colonel William Jones (John Boles). End of story. The principal Read More

    1943

  • Panama Hattie

    Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, Rags Ragland, Ben Blue, Marsha Hunt

    Synopsis: Cole Porter's musical hit Panama Hattie originally starred Ethel Merman on Broadway. But Merman was not a proven movie commodity, thus it was Ann Sothern who appeared in the film version as Hattie, brassy but golden-hearted proprietress of a Canal Zone hotel. Accustomed to dealing with such Read More

    1942

  • Whistling in Dixie

    Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft, Guy Kibbee, Diana Lewis

    Synopsis: This second entry in MGM's "Whistling" series is more elaborate than the first (Whistling in the Dark) and equally as funny. Red Skelton returns as radio sleuth Wally Benton, aka "The Fox", while Ann Rutherford is back as his ever-patient fiancee Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford). After receiving a Read More

    1942

  • Ship Ahoy

    Actors: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, William Post, Jr., Jimmy Cross

    Synopsis: This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens with Tommy Dorsey and his band swinging through "Hawaiian War Chant" while Eleanor Powell taps away. Powell, it turns out, is Tallulah Winters, the band's official tap Read More

    1942

  • Maisie Gets Her Man

    Actors: Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Leo Gorcey, Allen Jenkins, Donald Meek

    Synopsis: The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and stranded once more, showgirl Maisie Revere briefly works as the wrong end of a knife-throwing act, then dedicates herself to helping would-be comedian Hap Hixby (Skelton) Read More

    1942

  • Lady Be Good

    Actors: Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll

    Synopsis: The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score) to the original play is purely accidental. The MGM scriveners came up with a new story concerning married songwriters Ann Sothern and Robert Young, who can't live with each Read More

    1941

  • Whistling in the Dark

    Actors: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey, Rags Ragland

    Synopsis: Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in 1933), MGM's Whistling in the Dark was clearly inspired by the success of Paramount's Bob Hope comedy-mystery The Ghost Breakers. In his first film starring role, Red Skelton Read More

    1941

  • The People vs. Dr. Kildare

    Actors: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Bonita Granville

    Synopsis: Dr. Jim Kildare (Lew Ayres) plays Good Samaritan with potentially disastrous results in The People vs. Dr. Kildare. Happening upon the scene of a motor accident, Kildare performs an emergency operation on crash victim Frances Marlowe (Bonita Granville), an ice-skating star. While recovering in Read More

    1941

  • Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

    Actors: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Red Skelton, Alma Kruger

    Synopsis: When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly dramatic fashion. In Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day, Dr. Jim Kildare (Lew Ayres) and nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day) are finally able to exchange their marital vows. Alas, the Read More

    1941

  • Flight Command

    Actors: Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly, Shepperd Strudwick

    Synopsis: MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without adornments. Such was the case of Flight Command. Instead of Warners' streetwise James Cagney, the MGM film stars pretty-boy Robert Taylor as the obligatory hotshot cadet who chafes Read More

    1940

  • Having Wonderful Time

    Actors: Ginger Rogers, Peggy Conklin, Lucille Ball, Lee Bowman

    Synopsis: Based upon Arthur Kober’s play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars Ginger Rogers as Teddy Shaw, a typist who goes to a summer camp for a little rest and relaxation. She’s also getting away from Emil (Jack Carson), whose interest in Teddy Read More

    1938

  • Red Skelton: Lost Episodes

    Synopsis: Red Skelton became one of the most celebrated television comedians of all-time with his array of lovable characters. This compilation brings together a variety of moments from his sketch comedy that were thought lost to history but have been uncovered and made available on this release. Included Read More

  • Red Skelton: More Lost Episodes

  • Red Skelton Christmas Show

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