A Christmas Story: 1777
A Christmas Story: 1777, The Red Ske lton Hour – a different Christmas special, with two funny sketches, and a very serious Christmas at Valley Forge
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A Christmas Urchin
One Christmas, Freddie the Freeloader finds A Christmas Urchin outside his shack in the city dump. She’s looking for a father for Christmas … Can Freddie provide a Christmas miracle?
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The Christmas Spirit
The Christmas Spirit – The Red Skelton Hour season 16, with Greer Garson. Originally aired December 20, 1966
The Christmas Spirit – can Freddie the Freeloader put on his annual Christmas benefit for the orphans with Greer Garson? Or will the villains shut down her theater?
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Red Skelton Christmas Show 1970
The Red Skelton Christmas Show 1970 with Leslie Nielsen, originally aired December 21, 1970 – season 20
In The Red Skelton Christmas Show 1970, Freddie the Freeloader wants to put on a Christmas show for the orphans. If he can raise the money, and if he can find performers. Can kindly Officer Ryan (Leslie Nielsen) help?
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The Unwanted Christmas Tree
The Unwanted Christmas Tree – The Red Skelton Show, season 4 – originally aired December 21, 1954
In The Unwanted Christmas Tree Red Skelton tells a holiday story to his wife, Georgia, and children, Valentina and Richard. In it, “Chester” is working for a miserly man selling Christmas trees, and takes a sad little tree to a club for young boys. Then …
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Christmas 1952
Christmas – The Red Skelton Show, season 2
Christmas is a funny, sweet, and fast-paced episode of The Red Skelton Show. It’s Christmas-themed, with appearances by Red, Clem Kadidddlehopper, and Freddie the Freeloader. It’s frankly hard to believe they squeezed this much comedy in only 30 minutes! Enjoy!
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Freddie and the Yuletide Doll [The Red Skelton Hour]
Freddie and the Yuletide Doll – The Red Skelton Show with Cara Williams, season 11
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.
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The Cop and the Anthem
The Cop and the Anthem – The Red Skelton Show season 4, originally aired December 21, 1954
“The Cop and the Anthem” is based on a famous story by O. Henry, with Red Skelton‘s Freddie the Freeloader trying unsuccessfully to get arrested, in order to have a warm place to spend the winter. “30 days hath September, April, June, and Freddie the Freeloader!”
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Christmas jokes by Red Skelton
Christmas jokes by Red Skelton – dealing with how people behave at Christmas, Santa Claus, and Christmas gifts
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The Skeltons at Home [Red Skelton Show]
The Skeltons at Home, The Red Skelton Show season 1, originally aired December 23, 1951
The Skeltons at Home is a classic episode of The Red Skelton Show. Various of Red Skelton’s most famous characters (including Clem Kadiddlehopper, Cauliflower McPugg, the inebriated Willie Lump-Lump, and the cowboy Deadeye) visit the Skelton family on Christmas Eve. They all interact with the Skelton’s “maid”, Shirley Mitchell. “Nice to meet you, Tiny Tim.” It ends with a boy’s choir singing Christmas carols and Red Skelton giving his Christmas wishes.
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