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)
The Transcontinental
Willie Lump Lump can’t stop being the quiz show winner! And he has nowhere to keep all his winnings! He’s even afraid to answer the phone … Also Deadeye rolls a cigarette, and a televised surgery?
Quiz Show Winner
Rock-a-Bye Baby – The Red Skelton Show – a series of sketches dealing with a young couple & baby, embarrassing moments, gangster deaths …
Rock-a-Bye Baby
Clean Fighter is a funny Cauliflower McPugg commercial for Tide. Willy Lump Lump comes home, Red Skelton & Lucy Knox do drug store skits, and Red mocks the upper class on Lovers Lane.
Clean Fighter
McPugg the Babysitter babysits for a precocious child, Clem Kadiddlehopper sells shaving cream on a commercial, Red dances opera?
McPugg the Babysitter
Ambulance Driver – The Red Skelton Show – proving why Willy Lump Lump should never bel allowed to drive – especially an ambulance!
Ambulance Driver
Clem the Rookie – The Red Skelton Show, season 4, starring Leo Durocher, Diahann Carroll The first program of Red’s fourth season is broadcast from New York City. The Redettes open the program with “Come… Clem the Rookie
Clem Kadiddlehopper’s Graduation – doesn’t he? Why can’t Cauliflower McPugg’s manager throw in the towel? Willy Lump Lump & the Army dentist!
Clem Kaddidhopper’s Graduation
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!
Help Wanted
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!
Telephone Trouble