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Nipsey Russell and George Appleby in The Nag and I

The Nag and I

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The Nag and IThe Red Skelton Hour season 16, with Nipsey Russell

In The Nag and I, CBS fires the henpecked George Appleby from his job as a page. Nipsey Russell is a fired police officer. So, they form a comedy team!

Red Skelton with wife Georgia, son Richard, daughter Valentina

Red Skelton’s Son Dies Thinking of Mother

Red Skelton’s Son Dies Thinking of Mother – originally published in the Pittsburgh Press-Gazette, May 12, 1958

Writer tells how comedian and wife spent grief-filled hours after death

(Associated Press Hollywood Writer James Bacon is a long-time friend of Red and Georgia Skelton. He was with them Saturday night in their Bel-Air home when they returned from UCLA Medical Center, less than one hour after their son, Richard, lost his valiant fight with leukemiaemia.)

Freddie the Freeloader at the racetrack

Racetrack jokes

Racetrack jokes by Red Skelton – from The Red Skelton Hour episode, Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch I had a bad week. I went out to the Santa Anita racetrack. Santa Anita, that’s the annex to… 

Love Is an Itch You Can't Scratch, The Red Skelton Hour season 17

Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch

Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch, The Red Skelton Hour season 17, originally aired February 6, 1968 Monologue | Act I | Act II | One Minute Dramas | The Silent Spot | Cast…