Clem Strikes Oil, The Red Skelton Show season 6 – oil’s found on the Kadiddlehopper farm! Can Clem Kadiddlehopper buy the love of Daisy June (Carol Channing)?
Clem Strikes Oil, The Red Skelton Show season 6, broadcast March 5, 1957
Rather than a monologue, Clem Strikes Oil begins with a pantomime, of an old man and his grandson, teaching the little tyke the value of life, gardening — and ragweed.
Clem Strikes Oil
Clem goes to visit his girlfriend Daisy June (Carol Channing). But she won’t marry him until she becomes famous!
The bad news is, Kadiddlehopper Farm is plagued with black, gooey stuff that’s ruining the crops.
Paw: We’re filthy with money!
Clem Kadiddlehopper: We’re filthy without it.
Paw: That black gooey stuff is oil! It’s worth 100 million dollars! The stuff that makes automobiles run!
Clem Kadiddlehopper: Well, what are we so excited for? We don’t have an automobile …
Kadiddlehopper Enterprises
The oil’s worth $100 million dollars! Which Clem parlays into a vast financial empire. And Daisy June comes to visit the now-wealthy Clem Kadiddlehopper …
Clem: I own practically everything. But do you think I’m happy?
Daisy June: Are you, Clem?
Clem: You bet your sweet life I am!
But, Daisy June still won’t marry him until she’s a star! But, since Kadiddlehopper Oil’s the sponsor of a TV talent show …
And the winner is …
Engagement ring
And now that Daisy Junes’s famous, she agrees to marry Clem! And he’s ready with the engagement ring!
Cast of characters
- Red Skelton – Self – Host/Clem Kadiddlehopper
- Jan Arvan (20 Million Miles to Earth) – Paw Kadiddlehopper
- Seymour Berns – Self
- Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern Millie) – Daisy June
- David Rose and His Orchestra – Themselves
- Richard Deacon (Dick Van Dyke Show) – Oil Man
- Art Gilmore – Announcer
- Peter Lorre (M; Mad Love) – Small Boy
Trivia
- Red Skelton’s character Clem Kadiddlehopper identifies himself several times as Clem Kadiddlehopper, Jr.
- Series announcer Art Gilmore makes a rare on-screen appearance portraying (naturally) an announcer on a Clem’s TV show. Longtime Skelton show director Seymour Berns appears as himself in the Clem TV show sketch