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Red Skelton with wife Georgia, son Richard, daughter Valentina

Red Skelton’s Son Dies Thinking of Mother

Red Skelton’s Son Dies Thinking of Mother – originally published in the Pittsburgh Press-Gazette, May 12, 1958

Writer tells how comedian and wife spent grief-filled hours after death

(Associated Press Hollywood Writer James Bacon is a long-time friend of Red and Georgia Skelton. He was with them Saturday night in their Bel-Air home when they returned from UCLA Medical Center, less than one hour after their son, Richard, lost his valiant fight with leukemiaemia.)

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… 

The Schnook of Araby - The Red Skelton Hour season 16, with Cesar Romero

The Schnook of Araby

The Schnook of ArabyThe Red Skelton Hour season 16, with Cesar Romero. Originally aired March 14, 1967

In The Schnook of Araby, Clem Kadiddlehopper is hired to be the bodyguard for th3e dictator Sheik (Cesar Romero). What could go wrong?