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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… The Eyes Have It

The Quiz Show Winner, Willy Lump Lump

Quiz Show Winner

Willie Lump Lump can’t stop being the quiz show winner! And he has nowhere to keep all his winnings! He’s even afraid to answer the phone … Also Deadeye rolls a cigarette, and a televised surgery?

Quiz Show Winner
Half a Hero, starring Red Skelton, Jean Hagen

Half a Hero (1953)

Synopsis of Half a Hero, starring Red Skelton, Jean Hagen

Red Skelton stars as Ben Dobson, a freelance writer who no sooner starts working full-time as a rewrite man at a magazine than his wife (Jean Hagen) decides that they should have their first child. Afterward, she pushes him into moving from New York City to the suburbs.  Here he is nickel and dimed to the verge of bankruptcy.  Until his boss gives him his first chance at writing his own article for this national magazine.  An article talking about the “slums of tomorrow” — the suburbs

Half a Hero (1953)
The Great Diamond Robbery (1953) starring Red Skelton and Cara Williams

The Great Diamond Robbery

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The Great Diamond Robbery (1953) starring Red Skelton and Cara Williams

In The Great Diamond Robbery, Red Skelton plays Ambrose C. Park, a jewel cutter who was abandoned on a park bench as an infant (hence his name – Ambrose Central Park).   He is looking for his family, thinking that finding them will fill the void in his life.   He eats his lunch in Central Park every day across from the bench where he was left as an infant.  Hoping that his parents will come by – to no avail.   In his work life he is a jewel cutter.

The Great Diamond Robbery