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Nutty Nougat (Milton Berle) impersonating the missing Clara Appleby

Marriage Is Made in Heaven and Las Vegas

Marriage Is Made in Heaven and Las Vegas – The Red Skelton Hour, with Milton Berle – George Appleby needs him to impersonate his wife, when the boss comes to visit his home that night!

Little Old Rainmaker, He - with Arthur Godfrey, The Red Skelton Hour season 17, originally aired November 28, 1967

Little Old Rainmaker, He

Little Old Rainmaker, He – with Arthur Godfrey, The Red Skelton Hour season 17, originally aired November 28, 1967

In “Little Old Rainmaker, He”, San Fernando Red finds a rich sucker in a wealthy Montana rancher played by Godfrey. His huge acreage is going bone dry for lack of rain, so Fernando first tries to sell him a rain-making contraption, then they both go up in a rickety airplane to seed the clouds.

Saddle Sores on the Old Corral - The Red Skelton Hour season 17

Saddle Sores on the Old Corral

Saddle Sores on the Old CorralThe Red Skelton Hour season 17, with Stanley Holloway, originally aired September 19, 1967

Saddle Sores on the Old Corral – can Deadeye swindle British millionaire Stanley Holloway out of his inheritance, by pretending to be his long-lost brother?

At the duel in "Once Upon a Dunce", it turns out that neither girl wants Clem after all!

Once Upon a Dunce

Once Upon a Dunce – The Red Skelton Hour season 16, with Jack Albertson, Patrice Munsel, originally aired May 2, 1967

In Once Upon a Dunce, Clem Kadiddlehopper is too shy to propose to his girl, Daisy June. So Pa Kadiddlehopper contacts a newspaper advice columnist for help. But she falls in love with Clem! Will there be a duel?

The Next Time Try the Brain - The Red Skelton Show with Tennessee Ernie Ford, season 16, originally aired April 4, 1967

The Next Time Try the Brain

The Next Time Try the Brain – The Red Skelton Show with Tennessee Ernie Ford, season 16, originally aired April 4, 1967

The Next Time Try the BrainClem Kadiddlehopper is trained in the chicken plucking Olympics by Loser Lumpkin (Tennessee Ernie Ford)

Nipsey Russell and George Appleby in The Nag and I

The Nag and I

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The Nag and IThe Red Skelton Hour season 16, with Nipsey Russell

In The Nag and I, CBS fires the henpecked George Appleby from his job as a page. Nipsey Russell is a fired police officer. So, they form a comedy team!