The Red Skelton Show season 6 (1956-57) – Red Skelton‘s variety show continues, with a wide variety of guest stars and singers, classic bits, corny jokes
| Air Date | Episode Name | Notes | |
| October 2, 1956 | McPugg’s Comeback | Cauliflower McPugg meets the retired heavyweight champion of the world and accidentally gets involved in a return match with him. Special guest, Rocky Marciano. | |
| October 9, 1956 | Olympic Clem | Clem represents the USA in weightlifting at the Olympics when it is discovered he can lift a 1,000-pound cow. Foreign agents try to prevent him from beating their representative in the event. | |
| October 16, 1956 | Bolivar’s Songs or Shagnasty Composer | Bolivar Shagnasty auditions one of his songs, is turned down, but accidently discovers later that the music publisher made his song a No. 1 hit on the Hit Parade by having it recorded backward. He takes his case to Juke Box Jury. | |
| October 23, 1956 | Freddie Votes or Election Fiddle | Freddie the Freeloader becomes the deciding vote for an election between two rivals and each one tries to bribe him with gifts for his shack at the City Dump | |
| October 30, 1956 | The Magic Shoes | Clem, the cobbler’s son, falls in love with a beautiful ballerina, but, in order to win her love, he must learn to be a dancer. He visits an old witch who gives him a magic potion to rub on his shoes | |
| November 13, 1956 | Appleby’s Millions | George Appleby receives a check for a million dollars from an anonymous donor, but winds up in jail because his wife thinks he is the man who robbed a bank of that sum, which is publicized on the same day George received his wealth (Satire of The Millionaire) | |
| November 20, 1956 | The First Thanksgiving | Red, as John Alden, falls in love with the lovely Prisilla, but must propose to her for Miles Standish. While he is attempting to do this, savages attack the cabin she and her mother live in, knock him out and kidnap the two women. To save them from being burned at the stake, Red dresses up to look like an Indian brave and not only rescues them but cures the chief’s toothache and make friends between his tribe and the Pilgrims. | |
| November 27, 1956 | The Atomic Sailor | Sailor Cookie (Red) becomes the accidental experiment of an atomic spy when he drinks some radioactive fluid thinking it is soup. | |
| December 4, 1956 | Clem Goes Hollywood | A glamorous movie star gets lost in the mountains, has car trouble, and is helped by Clem and his family. She falls in love with him and won’t return to Hollywood to fulfill a picture commitment unless Clem can play the male lead. The producer is forced to agree and Clem winds up in a musical version of Hamlet singing like Elvis Presley | |
| December 11, 1956 | Victor Borge special | ||
| December 18, 1956 | San Fernando Goes Straight | San Fernando Red is released from prison on parole to the custody of a woman department store owner to work as a store detective. Does it take a thief to catch a thief? | |
| December 25, 1956 | The Cop and the Anthem (rerun) | Freddie the Freeloader tries to get arrested as Christmastime, so he has somewhere warm … |  |
| January 1, 1957 | Resolutions | George Appleby is forced to go on a diet by his wife for his New Year’s resolution. Then Willie Lump-Lump‘s wife tries to get him to give up drinking! | |
| January 8, 1957 | Freddie the Count | French swindlers try to convince Freddie the Freeeloader that he’s the inheritor of an estate. But surprisingly … | |
| January 15, 1957 | The Sailor Takes a Wife | Cookie’s going to be on a quiz show. But the opening’s for a husband and wife team. So he talks Snorkel into dressing up as a woman and masquerading as his wife! | |
| January 22, 1957 | Freddie, the Contest Winner | ||
| January 29, 1957 | Cauliflower Wrestler | ||
| February 5, 1957 | Freddie Finds a Headlight | ||
| February 12, 1957 | Reporter Clem | ||
| February 19, 1957 | Appleby Goes Abroad | ||
| February 26, 1957 | San Fernando’s Showboat | ||
| March 5, 1957 | Clem Strikes Oil | ||
| March 12, 1957 | Freddie’s Surprise Party | ||
| March 19, 1957 | Appleby’s House | ||
| March 26, 1957 | Clem’s Fish Market | ||
| April 2, 1957 | Romeo and Juliet | ||
| April 9, 1957 | Robinson Crusoe | ||
| April 16, 1957 | Mean Widdle Girl | ||
| April 23, 1957 | Bolivar’s Double | ||
| April 30, 1957 | Cookie in Cuba | ||
| May 7, 1957 | Freddie and the Happy Helper | ||
| May 14, 1957 | Clem’s Inheritance | ||
| May 21, 1957 | Cookie in Cuba II | ||
| May 28, 1957 | Medicine Man | ||
| June 4, 1957 | Freddie the Star | ||
| June 11, 1957 | Cookie’s Secret | ||
| June 18, 1957 | Appleby’s Invention | ||
| June 25, 1957 | Hollywood Agent |