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The Story of Helen of Troy or Don't Look a Wooden Gift Horse in the Mouth - The Red Skelton Hour with Carol Lawrence, Lou Rawls

Don’t Look a Wooden Gift Horse in the Mouth

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The Story of Helen of Troy or Don’t Look a Wooden Gift Horse in the Mouth – The Red Skelton Hour season 18, originally aired January 21, 1969 Monologue Don’t Look a Wooden Gift Horse… 

Red Goes to Barber College, The Red Skelton Show season 4, with Charles Coburn, originally aired February 8, 1955

Red Goes to Barber College

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In flashback, Red Skelton tells Reginald Denny of the time Red Goes to Barber College – and ruined Charles Coburn’s haircut! What will Beverly say?

Benny Rubin doing a man on the street interview with Clem Kadiddlehopper in It Takes All Kinds

It Takes All Kinds

It Takes All Kinds – The Red Skelton show, live from San Francisco, with Benny Rubin, Cauliflower McPugg, Clem Kadiddlehopper, Lucille Knoch. Man on the Street interviews, Guzzler’s Tonic, and of course a Tide commercial.

Pasquale (Red Skelton) answering the phone in "Pasqual's Hotel"

Pasquale’s Hotel

In Pasquale’s Hotel – The Red Skelton Show season 1, with Dr. Clem Kadiddlehopper, Willy Lump-Lump, and Tide the wash day miracle! (Pasquale’s Hotel is a funny Tide commercial – ask Izzy and Wuzzy).

The Disc Jockey - The Red Skelton Show season 1, originally aired February 17, 1952

The Disc Jockey

The Disc Jockey – The Red Skelton Show season 1 – Red as an all-night disc jockey, with lots of prop comedy! Pantomime of people at a cocktail lounge as well.

Willy Lump Lump in the Topsy Turvey room in "The Transcontinental"

The Transcontinental

This weeks episode of The Red Skelton Show is four unrelated sketches – The Transcontinental (spoof of a TV series), It’s Magic (J. Newton Numbskull), The Streets of Laredo (Deadeye, Tide commercial), and Topsy Turvy (Willie Lump Lump)

Clara and Me and Mama Makes Three - The Red Skelton Hour season 18 with Jane Wyman

Clara and Me and Mama Makes Three

Clara and Me and Mama Makes Three – in The Red Skelton Hour, George Appleby & wife Clara are on a game show to find their perfect match!

Cauliflower McPugg gets his eyes examined by a near-sighted optometrist in The Eyes Have It

The Eyes Have It

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The Eyes Have It – The Red Skelton Show season 2, originally aired April 5, 1953 Magazine Stand Instead of a monologue, Red demonstrates how different people read magazines at a newsstand. There’s a funny…