The Sultan
The Sultan – The Red Skelton Show season 2 – famous for the first appearance of Freddie the Freeloader.
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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.
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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).
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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)
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
Rock-a-Bye Baby – The Red Skelton Show – a series of sketches dealing with a young couple & baby, embarrassing moments, gangster deaths …
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Clem Kaddidhopper’s Graduation
Clem Kaddidhopper’s Graduation – The Red Skelton Show season 2, originally aired Nov 9, 1952
Clem Kadiddlehopper’s Graduation – doesn’t he? Why can’t Cauliflower McPugg’s manager throw in the towel? Willy Lump Lump & the Army dentist!
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Whistle Stop
Whistle Stop – The Red Skelton Show season 2, originally aired November 2, 1952
Whistle Stop is a funny Red Skelton episode, with skits by San Fernando Red, Clem Kadiddlehopper, and John Q. American (voting skit)
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The Stage Coach Robbery
The Stage Coach Robbery – The 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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Lovely to Look At, starring Red Skelton, Howard Keel
movie review of Lovely to Look At (1952) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Ann Miller
Lovely to Look At is a combination romance, musical, comedy, and fashion show — no, really. It’s the story of three Americans (Al Marsh played by Red Skelton, Tony Naylor played by Howard Keel, Jerry Ralby played by Gower Champion). They’re looking for financial backers for the Broadway show they want to put on … unsuccessfully. They are out of options, when Al’s Aunt Roberta dies. She left him with partial ownership of a fashionable Paris dress shop.
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