The Julius Caesar Caper
The Julius Caesar Caper – The Red Skelton Hour season 17, with Mickey Rooney
The Julius Caesar Caper – Forsooth reveals the “true story” of the death of Julius Caesar? E tu, Brute?
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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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Marriage Is Made in Heaven and Las Vegas
Marriage Is Made in Heaven and Las Vegas – The Red Skelton Hour, with Milton Berle – George Appleby needs him to impersonate his wife, when the boss comes to visit his home that night!
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Help Wanted
Help Wanted – The Red Skelton Show season 2, originally aired November 16, 1952
Help Wanted – The Red Skelton Show – a trio of VERY funny skits, with Red checking into a hotel, photographing a lovely model with Tide, then with a pal trying to steal a pie!
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He Who Steals My Dump Steals Trash
In He Who Steals My Dump Steals Trash, Freddie the Freeloader tries to help an amnesiac (George Gobel) recover his memory.
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of George Appleby
In Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of George Appleby, George’s old fraternity brother, Mike Connors, visits. But George fears that he and Clara are going to kill him for insurance money!
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Little Old Rainmaker, He
Little Old Rainmaker, He – with Arthur Godfrey, The Red Skelton Hour season 17, originally aired November 28, 1967
In “Little Old Rainmaker, He”, San Fernando Red finds a rich sucker in a wealthy Montana rancher played by Godfrey. His huge acreage is going bone dry for lack of rain, so Fernando first tries to sell him a rain-making contraption, then they both go up in a rickety airplane to seed the clouds.
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Telephone Trouble
Telephone Trouble – The Red Skelton Show season 1, originally aired May 18, 1952
In Telephone Trouble, Red Skelton jokes about the fire at Warner Brothers. Willie Lump Lump fights a telephone booth. J. Newton Numbskull can’t remember the name of the sponsor. Cobina Wright hires Clem Kadiddlehopper as a butler at a fancy dinner!
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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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