Fancy Footwork – Cauliflower McPugg‘s manager bets on him in a “friendly” boxing match – against Charles Bronson! Plus robot for sale, and a punny T-I-D-E commercial!
Fancy Footwork – The Red Skelton Show season 2, originally broadcast December 7, 1952
Monologue
Instead of the typical monologue, Red Skelton does a sketch about a man offered a cigar by his boss. But he’s never smoked before!
Pitchman Pete
Pitchman Pete, as a TV spokesman for the Reliable Robot Company, the “perfect” mechanical servant, at an insanely low price! Nothing can go wrong … go wrong … go wrong!
French Hand Laundry
Fancy Footwork
In the main skit, a boxer (played by a young Charles Bronson) bets that he can win a short bout with Cauliflower McPugg. But bizarrely, he decides that he needs to cheat!
Songs
- The Whiffenpoof Song (sung by The Sportsmen)
- Merrily We Roll Along (sung by The Sportsmen)
Cast of characters
- Charles Bronson (The Dirty Dozen; The Clown) … Self – Perky (Boxer-Footwork Skit)
- David Rose and His Orchestra … Themselves
- Ned Glass () …Self – McPugg’s Manager-Footwork Sketch
- Lucille Knoch () … Self – Hostess Introducting Acts
- Bob LeMond … Self – Announcer
- Gil Perkin … Self – the Robot-Pichman Sketch
- Red Skelton … Self – Host/Pitchman Pete/Cauliflower McPugg/Frenchman
- The Sportsmen Quartet … Themselves – Vocalists