In Fairy Tales for Old Children, Red portrays Junior Cavendish (the Mean Widdle Kid) and also Junior’s younger brother. While babysitting for his sibling, Junior dreams up fairy-tale sketches to entertain him.
How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down in The Dump?, set in Europe during World War II, Freddie the Freeloader is assigned to help Colonel Hogan (Hogan’s Heroes), who has escaped Stalag 13, until he can be rescued.
Freddie and the Yuletide Doll – lonely on Christmas, Freddie fantasizes that an abandoned rag come comes to life as his companion. A sweet, and bittersweet, Christmas episode.
In The Original Da Vinci, Freddie the Freeloader (Red Skelton) and his pal Mugsy (Jackie Coogan) find a Da Vinci painting! And art collector Vincent Price wants it!
In Sheriffs Are Bought Not Made, the cowardly Sheriff Deadeye allows his greed to push him into search for gold in a haunted mine with Burl Ives.
In Hippie Days are Here Again, Freddie the Freeloader stumbles into a Love-In, where he is accepted as an equal by hippies Cherub Sweetface (Tim Conway) and Handsoff Hanna (Nancy Ames). Jackie Coogan plays the policeman.
In Love Thy Neighbor, Red Skelton is urged by his butler to get a hobby. This leads him to buying a build-it-yourself RV kit from Sadie Murphy, keeping it at her trailer park … and her trying to marry him!
The Plight Before Christmas – The Red Skelton Hour, season 15 with Greer Garson “The Plight Before Christmas,” featuring Red Skelton as his hobo character Freddie the Freeloader. After a brief run-in with the law,…