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Red Skelton’s TV appearances.  Primarily his own series (The Red Skelton Show, The Red Skelton Hour) as well as specials, guest appearances, etc.

Little Old Rainmaker, He - with Arthur Godfrey, The Red Skelton Hour season 17, originally aired November 28, 1967

Little Old Rainmaker, He

Little Old Rainmaker, He – with Arthur Godfrey, The Red Skelton Hour season 17, originally aired November 28, 1967

In “Little Old Rainmaker, He”, San Fernando Red finds a rich sucker in a wealthy Montana rancher played by Godfrey. His huge acreage is going bone dry for lack of rain, so Fernando first tries to sell him a rain-making contraption, then they both go up in a rickety airplane to seed the clouds.

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The Stage Coach Robbery - The Red Skelton Show season 2

The Stage Coach Robbery

The Stage Coach RobberyThe Red Skelton Show season 2, originally aired October 12, 1952

Deadeye stars in “The Stage Coach Robbery” from season 2 of The Red Skelton Show. A funny sketch, with Lucy Knoch and Benny Rubin, where the crooked Deadeye and his gang try to hold up the stage coach. The only passenger is the lovely Lucy Knoch — and she’s the sheriff! And it turns into a Tide commercial, where Benny Rubin would rather be shot that give over his box of Tide!

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