The Plight Before Christmas – The Red Skelton Hour, season 15 with Greer Garson “The Plight Before Christmas,” featuring Red Skelton as his hobo character Freddie the Freeloader. After a brief run-in with the law,… The Plight Before Christmas [Red Skelton Show]
In When Nuthood Was in Flower, Red Skelton appears as Forsooth in a sketch set in the Middle Ages. He begins as apprentice to a torture device manufacturer, and ends entertaining the troops … With guest star Milton Berle! The ad libbing and improvised comedy is hilarious!
When Nuthood Was in Flower [Red Skelton Show]
In Somebody Down Here Hates Me, Red Skelton plays the hen-pecked George Appleby. He’s been working two jobs to put his brother-in-law through medical school … But now that he’s a doctor, the mooching continues!
Somebody Down Here Hates Me [The Red Skelton Hour]
In A Jerk of All Trades, Clem Kadiddlehopper becomes a human bloodhound, tracking down gas leaks and causing trouble at Tallulah Bankhead’s perfume shop.
monologue | Jerk of All Trades | Classic skit | Songs | The Silent Spot
Jerk of All Trades [Red Skelton Show]
Goofy Goofy Gander – The Red Skelton Hour, season 15, originally aired November 16, 1965 – with Stanley Holloway Opening monologue Airport: 2 guys are filling an airplane with jet fuel, and they wonder what… Goofy Goofy Gander [Red Skelton Show]
Brats in your Belfry – The Red Skelton Hour, where Junior the mean little kid accidentally shoots down a flying saucer piloted by Jose Jimenez (Bill Dana)
Brats in your Belfry [Red Skelton Show]
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!
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
The Red Skelton Show season 15
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.
Here Comes the Bribe [Red Skelton Show]