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Benny Rubin doing a man on the street interview with Clem Kadiddlehopper in It Takes All Kinds

It Takes All Kinds

It Takes All Kinds – The Red Skelton show, live from San Francisco, with Benny Rubin, Cauliflower McPugg, Clem Kadiddlehopper, Lucille Knoch. Man on the Street interviews, Guzzler’s Tonic, and of course a Tide commercial.

Pasquale (Red Skelton) answering the phone in "Pasqual's Hotel"

Pasquale’s Hotel

In Pasquale’s Hotel – The Red Skelton Show season 1, with Dr. Clem Kadiddlehopper, Willy Lump-Lump, and Tide the wash day miracle! (Pasquale’s Hotel is a funny Tide commercial – ask Izzy and Wuzzy).

The Disc Jockey - The Red Skelton Show season 1, originally aired February 17, 1952

The Disc Jockey

The Disc Jockey – The Red Skelton Show season 1 – Red as an all-night disc jockey, with lots of prop comedy! Pantomime of people at a cocktail lounge as well.

Willy Lump Lump in the Topsy Turvey room in "The Transcontinental"

The Transcontinental

This weeks episode of The Red Skelton Show is four unrelated sketches – The Transcontinental (spoof of a TV series), It’s Magic (J. Newton Numbskull), The Streets of Laredo (Deadeye, Tide commercial), and Topsy Turvy (Willie Lump Lump)

Red Skelton bouncing the baby on his knee *very* energetically in Rock-A-Bye Baby

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Rock-a-Bye Baby – The Red Skelton Show – a series of sketches dealing with a young couple & baby, embarrassing moments, gangster deaths …

Folding Boy - The Red Skelton Show season 1

Folding Boy

Folding Boy – The Red Skelton Show season 1

Folding Boy — has Cauliflower McPugg actually won his first boxing match? What happened to the referee? Also Weepy in the Mountains, Red’s pantomime