Red Skelton – America’s Favorite Funnyman is a DVD collection of 10 episodes of The Red Skelton Show. Not a bad collection by any means, and inexpensive as well. $9.95 U.S. dollars at the time of this writing. And it has a collection of some of my favorite episodes as well. They are:
A collection of photos of Red Skelton, America’s clown prince. Photos from his days in radio, movies, television show, and publicity photos.
In short, Red Skelton – The Lost Episodes is a compilation of six episodes of the Red Skelton Show. It features four of Red’s popular clown characters.
A sweet story from the Midland Reporter-Telegram, where a retired doctor talks of meeting Red Skelton when Red was 77, and performing at Harrah’s: “When Gosney asked Red about the braces he was wearing, the…
Red Skelton stars as Ben Dobson, a freelance writer who no sooner starts working full-time as a rewrite man at a magazine than his wife (Jean Hagen) decides that they should have their first child. Afterward, she pushes him into moving from New York City to the suburbs. Here he is nickel and dimed to the verge of bankruptcy. Until his boss gives him his first chance at writing his own article for this national magazine. An article talking about the “slums of tomorrow” — the suburbs
Brian Hoffman’s Remembering Red – A Tribute to Red Skelton: Traveler Reviews (Editor’s note: I’ve never met Brian, although he’s a Facebook friend who I’ve interacted with – he clearly has a great love for…
Movie review of A Southern Yankee (1948) starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Brian Donlevy A Southern Yankee is a very funny movie, set at the tail end of the American Civil War. Red Skelton plays…
The title, “Christmas with Red Skelton,” could perhaps have been “Christmas with Freddie the Freeloader.” On this DVD are two Christmas episodes of The Red Skelton Show, both featuring Red Skelton’s hobo character, Freddie the Freeloader. Both are absolute classics.
