Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Unless You’re a Banana
In Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Unless You’re a Banana, can San Fernando Red make Phyllis Diller beautiful, before she can call the police?
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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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The House That Junk Built
The House That Junk Built with Fernando Lamas, Senator Dirksen – The Red Skelton Hour season 16, originally aired April 18, 1967
In The House That Junk Built, a billionaire is tired off the stresses of executive life. Can he become a hobo like Freddie the Freeloader?
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Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch
Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch, The Red Skelton Hour season 17, originally aired February 6, 1968 Monologue | Act I | Act II… Read More »Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch
Mother Knows Best AKA Mother Knows Pest
Mother Knows Best AKA Mother Knows Pest, with Audrey Meadows – The Red Skelton Hour, season 16, originally aired October 11, 1966
Mother Knows Pest – Junior the Mean Little Kid’s mother is looking for her newest husband on an ocean cruise. And Junior wants to “help”!
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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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Ten Baby Fingers and Twelve Baby Toes
Ten Baby Fingers and Twelve Baby Toes, The Red Skelton Hour season 12, with Stubby Kaye and Janis Paige, originally aired November 12, 1962
In Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes, Junior Cavendish (Red Skelton), the Mean Little Kid’s mother (Janis Paige) bundles the kid off to a child psychiatrist (Stubby Kaye). And the psychiatrist plans to marry Mrs. Cavendish for her money … Junior to the rescue!
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Loafer Come Back to Me
Loafer Come Back to Me, with Mickey Rooney – The Red Skelton Hour, season 15, originally aired September 28, 1965
In Loafer Come Back to Me, Freddie the Freeloader‘s hobo pal Mugsy (Mickey Rooney) becomes a success in Hollywood! Will he forget his old pal?
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The Plight Before Christmas [Red Skelton Show]
The Plight Before Christmas – The Red Skelton Hour, season 15 with Greer Garson “The Plight Before Christmas,” featuring Red Skelton as his hobo character… Read More »The Plight Before Christmas [Red Skelton Show]