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Mother Hewes Stews is so desperate for a hit that she (Ethel Merman) wants to buy Freddie the Freeloader's mulligan stew recipe!

Get Thee to the Cannery

Get Thee to the Cannery – The Red Skelton Show season 13, with Ethel Merman and Billy Barty, broadcast October 29, 1963

In Get Thee to the Cannery, food tycoon Mother Hughes Stews’ (Ethel Merman) is desperate for a new dish! To the point of stealing the secret ingredient to Freddie the Freeloader‘s Mulligan stew! Then, a hilarious silent spot between cat and mouse Red Skelton and Billy Barty!

Peter Graves with Pop in Pop the Astronaut

Pop the Astronaut

Pop the Astronaut – The Red Skelton Show – elderly Pops the janitor becomes a stowaway on a mission to Jupiter! With Peter Graves

Freddie the Freeloader defends the 'hobo' Shirley Temple

Love is a Many-Splintered Thing

Passion in Pasadena, aka. Love is a Many-Splintered Thing – Freddie the Freeloader falls in love with debutante Shirley Temple, The Beach Boys sing, and a nervous Red works on a high-rise construction building!

Clem Kadiddlehopper with Mayor Stickyfingers in "Don't Rock the Vote"

Sit Down You’re Rocking the Vote

Sit Down You’re Rocking the Vote – The Red Skelton Hour season 13 – Who would vote for Clem Kadiddlehopper for mayor? The farm animals! Then, Red’s running an old-time butcher shop. What could go wrong?

People Who Like People are Cannibals - Barbara Feldon injecting Clem Kadiddlehopper with a serum that she hopes will enable him to live on chicken feed

People Who Like People are Cannibals

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In People Who Like People are Cannibals, a lady scientist (Barbara Feldon) tests out her new chicken-feed formula on “human guinea pig” Clem Kadiddlehopper.

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.

Tom Tredwell (George Gobel) disguised as a German general in 'zHumperdoo's Magic Tire"

Humperdoo’s Magic Tire

Humperdoo’s Magic Tire – The Red Skelton Hour – Professor Ludwig Von Humperdoo invents cement tires for rubber roads! But tire king George Gobel doesn’t like it!

The Story of Helen of Troy or Don't Look a Wooden Gift Horse in the Mouth - The Red Skelton Hour with Carol Lawrence, Lou Rawls

Don’t Look a Wooden Gift Horse in the Mouth

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The Story of Helen of Troy or Don’t Look a Wooden Gift Horse in the Mouth – The Red Skelton Hour season 18, originally aired January 21, 1969 Monologue Don’t Look a Wooden Gift Horse…