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The Son of Oliver Twist or Junior is Just a Little Dickens - The Red Skelton Hour season 19

The Son of Oliver Twist

In a parody of the musical Oliver!, Junior the mean little kid is playing the son of Oliver Twist. Who, like his father, runs away from the orphanage, and meets up with the Artful Dodger.

Freddie the Freeloader finds the Christmas urchin outside his shack

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?

Freddie the Freeloader and Greer Garson toast each other a Merry Christmas

The Christmas Spirit

The Christmas SpiritThe 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?

Love Is an Itch You Can't Scratch, The Red Skelton Hour season 17

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 | One Minute Dramas | The Silent Spot | Cast… 

Mother Knows Best AKA Mother Knows Pest

Mother Knows Best AKA Mother Knows Pest

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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”!

The Cop and the Anthem - The Red Skelton Show season 4, originally aired December 21, 1954

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!”

Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes, The Red Skelton Hour with Stubby Kaye and Janis Paige

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!