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The Red Skelton Show season 1
The Red Skelton Show season 1 – the very first season of Red Skelton‘s long-running television show. It’s interesting how many things became recurring items … and what didn’t. For example, at the end of each episode, Red is knocked over and dragged backwards through the curtain!
Read More »The Red Skelton Show season 1The Red Skelton Show season 15
The Red Skelton Show season 15 (1965-1966) – Red Skelton‘s variety show continues, with a wide variety of guest stars and singers, with the Silent Spot, classic bits, corny jokes
Read More »The Red Skelton Show season 15Here Comes the Bribe [Red Skelton Show]
Here Comes the Bribe – The Red Skelton Show, season 15, originally aired October 26, 1965 – with Johnny Mathis
Here Comes the Bribe is an episode of The Red Skelton Show, featuring Sheriff Deadeye running for re-election … Unless guest star Johnny Mathis can stop him! It was originally aired shortly before Halloween, so the silent spot is an appropriate parody of Hansel and Gretel, as well as some Halloween jokes in Red’s opening monologue.
Read More »Here Comes the Bribe [Red Skelton Show]A Taste of Money [Red Skelton Show]
A Taste of Money – The Red Skelton Show, Season 15 – originally aired October 19, 1965 – with Harve Presnell
A Taste of Money features Red Skelton as his con man character, San Fernando Red. With guest Harve Presnell, they perform a three-act skit. They also do a funny short routine about rodeo skills, and a hilarious silent spot of pickpocket Red repeatedly trying to escape from jail.
- As part of his opening monologue, Red Skelton does a pantomime of a doctor in a hospital. Doctor Jekyll, that is …
- Harve Presnell performs Let It Be Me and Mountain Greenery, aided by the Tom Hansen Dancers and Alan Copeland Singers.
Running Away from Home [joke]
Red Skelton tells the running away from home joke as part of his opening monologue in Smokeless Sunday on the Red Skelton Show. Supposedly, his little boy Richie is telling his sister Valentina, (in his Mead Widdle Kid voice):
Read More »Running Away from Home [joke]Smokeless Sunday [Red Skelton Show]
Smokeless Sunday – The Red Skelton Show, season 1, episode 4, originally aired October 21, 1951
Smokeless Sunday begins with Red Skelton playing checkers with a dog … and losing.
Next is Red’s opening monologue, that leads into Cauliflower McPugg with his million dollar idea. Which involves a human fly climbing 100 feet on a ladder and jumping into a small cup of water. When the fly loses his nerve, Cauliflower takes his place … and regrets it.
Read More »Smokeless Sunday [Red Skelton Show]Loco Boy Makes Good [Red Skelton Show]
Loco Boy Makes Good (The Red Skelton Show, Season 15, episode 5) – aired October 12, 1965
In Loco Boy Makes Good, Clem Kadiddlehopper has to fill in for the American Olympic team — for matchstick piling. Accompanied by his cousin Goody (Bobby Rydell).
Read More »Loco Boy Makes Good [Red Skelton Show]Sheriff Deadeye – Red Skelton’s cowboy character
Deadeye was one of Red Skelton‘s characters that made the transition from his radio show to television. He was often Sheriff Deadeye, depending on the script. But, more often than not, he’d just gotten out of jail himself.
Read More »Sheriff Deadeye – Red Skelton’s cowboy characterFUNNY SCREEN TEST A SCREAM, MAY BE FEATURE
(Editor’s note: originally published in The Ogden Standard-Examiner, October 27, 1940)
Red Skelton’ Trial Film May Make Money for Hís Studio
By Paul Harrison
NEA Service Staff
HOLLYWOOD – the busiest strip of film in the whole film capital is a Metro screen test of Comedian Red Skelton. It won him a job weeks ago and he has already finished his role as a fellow aviator with Bob Taylor in “Flight Command“. But that initial test keeps reeling along.