Red Skelton Filmography

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

  • The Year Without a Santa Claus

    Actors: John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Ethan Suplee, Eddie Griffin, Carol Kane

    Synopsis: Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.'s 1974 animated classic comes to vivid life for a whole new generation of viewers in this live action holiday adventure starring John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Eddie Griffin, Ethan Suplee, and Carol Kane. When a depressed Santa Claus (Goodman) announces plans to take Read More

    2006

  • 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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