The Red Skelton Show
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First Air DateSep 30, 1951
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ProductionVan Bernard Productions, CBS, Sursum Corporation, NBC
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Rotten tomato73%
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Original titleThe Red Skelton Show
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ReleaseSep 30, 1951
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Overview
The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.
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Season 1 ( 1951-09-30)
The Skylarks
How to Wash a Baby
Dunking Doughnuts
Smokeless Sunday
Laying a Cornerstone
Willie and the Burglar
Cafe Paree
G.I. McPugg
Clem and Married Life
Stairs
The Big Trial
Clean Politics
The Skeltons at Home
Learn To Dance in Ten Easy Lessons or One Hard One
The Bouncer
McPugg the Babysitter
Clean Fighter
Rock-a-Bye Baby
San Fernando Red on Television
The Transcontinental
The Disc Jockey
How to Make a Salad
Pasquale's Hotel
Napoleon
Dirty Deadeye
How to Eat Corn on the Cob
Willie the Barber
Clem's Travel Club
Mad Scientist
Helen of Troy
The Railroad Tower
It Takes All Kinds (Live in San Francisco)
Let's Talk About Mother
Telephone Trouble
The Railroad Station
Tornado Deadeye
Folding Boy
Let's Talk About Father
Imaginary Dog
Season 2 ( 1952-09-28)
Willie Comes Home
Willie Paints a Room
Stagecoach Robbery
Calling Dr. Prankenstein
Lieutenant Muscles
Whistle Stop
Clem Kadiddlehopper's Graduation
Help Wanted
Weepy Talks Turkey
One Man's Mortgage
Fancy Footwork
The Sultan
The Christmas Show
Highlight of 1951-52 season
The Big Trial
Drug Store; Private Eye
The Whistle Stop
Rush-Rush
Helen O'Connell
How to Eat Corn
Dirty Deadeye
French Waiter
Mills Brothers
Telephone Booth
June Havoc
Ambulance Driver
Quiz Show Winner
The Eyes Have It
Sure As Shootin'
Baby's First Birthday
3-D
Racetrack
Washing the Elephant
Marooned
Gale Robbins
Freddie Becomes a Star-Gazer
Scarlet Ribbons
Helen O'Connell
Deadeye from Mars
Season 3 ( 1953-09-22)
McPugg's Last Fight
Clem and the Check
Appleby's Cocktail Party
The Nervous Tenor's Auction
Hobo's Dilemma
Appleby the Dreamer
Freddie's Masquerade
The Marriage Broker
How to Be Happily Married
California Gold Rush
Flugelmeyer's Secret Formula
Dr. Schlepper
It Happened at the Stationhouse
Christmas With the Skeltons
The Great White Hunter
Accidents Will Happen
A Voyage to Paris
What Fathers Should Know
Clem the Campus Soda Jerk
The Train Trip
Deadeye at the Golden Nugget
Captain Hook
Cave-Man Marriage
Toots Shor Show
Uncle Sam Wants You
Sherlock Holmes Satire
Skelton Awards
King Putt
Freddie's Picnic
Going to Work
Clem in the South Pacific
Willie I-Q
The Referee
Prince Valiant
The Artist's Dilemma
Clem Goes to Mexico
Mississippi Showboat
Freddie Goes to the Cleaners
Dial 'B' for Brush
Season 4 ( 1954-09-21)
Clem the Rookie
Orson Bean
What Goes Down, Must Come Up
Columbus and Isabella
Romeo and Juliet
The Andrews Sisters
Campaign
Clem Goes to College
He Made Good in the City
USO Thanksgiving
Chicago Red in Las Vegas
The Art Show
Tribute to Guys and Dolls/The Stuntman
The Unwanted Christmas Tree
John Calvert
The Smog Czar
Skelton Goes Back to School
Honeymooners Spoof
Love Thy Neighbor
Queen of Mars
Red Goes to Barber College
Smithers & McGurk visit Persian Shah
Seach for Uranium
Insomnia
Look Magazine Movie Awards Show
Red Goes to Prison
At the Movies
Sleeping Beauty Ballet
Hospital Mix-Up
Smithers & McGurk Western Café
South American Beauty Contest
Drama Coach
Smithers & McGurk Go to Australia
Red Becomes a Prop Man
Sheik Slave Market
Tippy Toe Dancing School for Teenagers
Red Goes to Japan
Rose Marie
Freddy the Freeloader's Past
Season 5 ( 1955-09-26)
The Super Chef
Money, Money, Money
New York Tour
Shore Leave
Cinderfella
Halloween Show
The Sweetie of Tahiti
TV vs. the Electric Guitar
Fish Peddler's Thanksgiving
Phantom of the Ballet
Deadeye vs. the Lone Ranger
The Cop and the Anthem
Cookie and Zsa Zsa Gabor
Old Vaudeville
Willie Resists Girls
The Sculpture Show
Freddie on a Luxury Liner or Bum Overboard
Lamb to Lion
The Election Show
Valentine's Day Double Date (Original)
Salesman vs. Mad Scientist or A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Cookie Returns or Cookie in Korea
The Hypnotist
Clem's Feud
Freddie vs. the Freeway
Dance Marathon
Stages of Evolution
Robin Hood
Hollywood Plumber
Baker Man
Desert Island
Stock Wizard
Public Pigeon
The Picnic
The Convention
Pirate Show
County Fair or Minister of Agriculture
Season 6 ( 1956-10-02)
McPugg's Comeback
Olympic Clem
Bolivar's Song or Shagnasty Composer
Freddie Votes or Election Fiddle
The Magic Shoes
Appleby's Millions
The First Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims
The Atomic Sailor
Clem Goes Hollywood
San Fernando Goes Straight
Resolutions
Freddie the Count
The Sailor Takes a Wife
Freddie, the Contest Winner
Cauliflower Wrestler
Freddie Finds a Headlight
Reporter Clem
Appleby Goes Abroad
San Fernando's Showboat
Clem Strikes Oil
Freddie's Surprise Party
Appleby's House
Clem's Fish Market
Romeo and Juliet
Robinson Crusoe
Mean Widdle Girl
Bolivar's Double
Cookie in Cuba
Freddie and the Happy Helper
Clem's Inheritance
Cookie in Cuba II
Medicine Man
Freddie the Star
Cookie's Secret
Appleby's Invention
Hollywood Agent
Season 7 ( 1957-10-01)
Freddie and the Brooklyn Dodgers
Clem in New York
Appleby's Cake
Cesar Romero Hires Deadeye for TV Series
Cookie and the Satellite
Appleby's Patio
Monsieur Clem's Fashions
Bolivar the Repairman
Freddie's Thanksgiving
The Round Table
Deadeye the Outlaw
The Third Wish
Willie on the Wagon
Appleby and the Ape
Calypso Clem
Freddie Finds a Fortune
Bolivar's Beauty Salon
Clem the Bullfighter
Appleby's Garage
Freddie's New Home
Clem the Dentist
Appleby and the Ape II
Cauliflower's Hamburger Stand
Clem, the Photographer
San Fernando's Filibuster
Bolivar Gets Amnesia
Episode 27
The Kadiddlehopper Mural or Clem the Artist
Appleby's Midnight Ride
San Fernando's Singing Sensation
Friends of Red Skelton Variety Show
Appleby Wins a House
Freddie and the Millionare
Cauliflower's Reducing Salon
Bolivar and the Lost Patrol
Season 8 ( 1958-09-30)
Freddie and the World Series Ticket
Clem and the Satellite
Bolivar the Quiz Champion
Freddie and the Election
Clem Sings
Appleby Goes Hunting
Deadeye the Indian Scout
Freddie and the Turkey Dinner
Bolivar's Double Date
Clem the Interior Decorator
San Fernando in Alaska
Freddie in the Black Box
Bashful Clem
Appleby and the Ice Man
Cauliflower and the Kidnappers
Clem and the Merry Widow
Freddie Gets a Job
Clem in Miami Beach
San Fernando Loses the Dixie Queen
Humphrey School of Dramatic Arts
Freddie and the Public Enemy
Appleby's Band
Cookie in Japan
Deadeye and the Rustlers
Appleby's Formula
Freddie's Mothers Day
Rapid Growth
San Fernando the Swami
Appleby the Witness
Freddie the Singer
Cauliflower In Hollywood
Season 9 ( 1959-09-29)
Freddie's Beat Shack
Clem's General Store
Appleby's Bird Woman
Deadeye and the Girl Bandit
San Fernando's Treasure Hunt
Freddie and Fabian
Appleby the Weatherman
San Fernando's Thanksgiving
Appleby: The Big Producer
Bolivar the Songwriter
Clem the Mailman
Deadeye Turns in His Badge
Clem the Disc Jockey
Clem Kadiddlehopper in Dog Patch
Appleby the Muscle Man
Cauliflower and the Syndicate
San Fernando and Fabian
Appleby's Boat
Bolivar and the Roaring Twenties
Skelton and Mae West
Deadeye the Blacksmith
Freddie's Masterpiece
Clem the Private Eye or 77 Moonset Strip
San Fernando for Governor
Freddie's Millions
Clem's Fountain of Youth
Super-Cauliflower
San Fernando's Marriage Mill
Freddie in Las Vegas
Clem and the Beanstalk
Appleby's Fallout Shelter
The Many Skeltons
Season 10 ( 1960-09-27)
Laughter, the Universal Language
Appleby's Predictions
Clem the Candidate
Deadeye and the Magician
Freddie's Manhattan
San Fernando's Investigating Committee
Appleby's Time Machine
Clem the Animal Psychiatrist
Jose McPugg
The Racine Show
San Fernadocal
Danny Thomas Show
The Garry Moore Show
We're Gonna Have a Party
Pantomime Concert
Ed as Red
Episode 17
Episode 18
Episode 19
Episode 20
Freddie and the Baby
Deadeye and the Alamo
Clem's Theatre
Appleby's Cufflinks
Freddie's Band
Clem the Genius
Appleby's Castle
Cauliflower and the Fight Fix
Freddie's Shipwreck
San Fernando and Herbie
Clem's Watermelons
Appleby's Sleepwalk
Freddie Gets Sick
Candid Clem
Appleby's Remote Control
Season 11 ( 1961-09-26)
Clem the Unkissable
Appleby's Marriage License
Freddie's Benefactor
Deadeye and the Gunslinger
Sing Along With Cauliflower
Freddie's Romance
The Almost Late George Appleby
Clem's Other Clem
Once Upon a Turkey
The Great Brain Robbery
Mr. K Goes to College
San Fernando and the Kaaka Maami Island
Freddie and the Yuletide Doll
Appleby's Office Party
Nothing But the Tooth
Freddie, Willing and Able
Appleby's Anniversary
Clem and the Kadiddlehopper Hop
The Many Skeltons in Las Vegas
Freddie and the Landlord
The Iceman Goeth
Calling Dr. Kadiddlehopper
Appleby's Bearded Boarder
The Nine Lives of Freddie
The Bride of Bolivar
Clem and the Dalton Girls
Pantomimic Presentation of a Person's Problems in a Park
How To Think Up A Television Title Without Being Sued
Rock on the Wild Side
Go, Van, Gogh
Best Man Blues
This Goon for Hire
Freddie and the Daily Freeloader
Cauliflower Loses His Birds
Season 12 ( 1962-09-25)
Somebody Up There Should Stay There
The Greatest Schmo on Earth
The Mayor of Central Park
The Booze Man of Alcatraz
One Good Intern Deserves Another
Rupert The Stupert
Dial P for Plumber
Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes
March of the Litterbugs
Who Put the Bobby Sox in Mr. Appleby's Chowder?
Once Upon A Flea
How The West Was Lost
Freddie and the Yuletide Doll
Of Mouth and Men
Where There's a Will, There's a Wife
Have Rickshaw, Will Travel
Children Should Be Seen But Not Had
Witness for the Persecution or Half a Lawyer Is Better Than None
Much Ado About Knotting
Red Fails in the Sunset
Advice to the Loveworn
My Friend The Enemy
The Bel Air Haykickers
After the Bald Is Over
Frontier Coward
Come to Me, My Melon-Headed Baby
The Portrait of Dorian Appleby
How Green Was My Money
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Wife
A Midsummer Nut's Dream
Captains Outrageous
Jerk and the Beanstalk
Season 13 ( 1963-09-24)
Passion in Pasadena or Love is a Many-Splintered Thing
My Son the Monster
Pop is a Weasel
Bewitched, Bothered and Brainless
Don’t Sit Under the Tombstone with Anybody Else But Me
Get Thee to the Cannery
Do You Take This Woman for You Awful Wedded Wife
It’s So Nice to Have a Louse Around the House
The Bachelor and the Boobyhatcher
Good Night Sour Prince
It’s A Treat To Sell Your Wheat In The Vladivostok Mud
Sing a Song of Sing Sing
The Mouth Shall Rise Again
Will the Real Clara Appleby Please Shut Up or To Tell a Fib
Shrink My Head I’m a Stranger in Paradise or Stroodel and Freudloader-Instant Brainwashers
Sit Down Your Rockin the Vote
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Dump
That’s the Way the Fortune Cookie Crumbles
Cast Your Brat Upon the Water
Lives of a Bungle Lancer
Take Her She’s Mean
How Are Things in Glocca Moron?
On Top of Old Hokey
One Man's Mate Is Another Man's Poison
I Was an S.A.P. for the C.I.A.
Tip Toe Thru the Trash Cans
I Want to Go Where the Wild Goof Goes
The Goon and Six Pence
Keep Tramp Fires Burning
I Came, I Saw, I Conked Her
Heading for Last Roundup
Crime Doesn't Pay (Like It Used To)
Season 14 ( 1964-09-22)
Be It Ever So Grumble, There’s No Place Like Home
The Taming of the Schmo
A Man’s Dump Is His Castle
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Harem
The Most Sappy Fella
The Mouth That Roared
Red Skelton in London
A Sap’s Fable or The Great Brain Robbery
The Fastest Goon in the West
Love, Your Tragic Smell Is Everywhere or A Hat Full of Hate
When It’s Teepee Time Down South
Mamma’s Little Monster
The Plight Before Christmas
A Man and His Money Are Soon Parted or A Fool and His Money Are Soon Married
A Bad Man Nowadays Is Hard to Find
Lame Brain for a Day
The Seven Year Wretch
A Creep in the Deep
A Concert in Pantomime
Yellow Belly in a Purple Sage
Brain Go Away
Lookie Lookie Here Comes Crookie
O for Nothing
The Red Skelton Scrapbook
Nuts at Round Table
Panhandle with Care
Sweet Misery of Wife
The Unteachables
Out All Over
The Golden West
Bum Today
More Truth Than Poultry
Season 15 ( 1965-09-14)
How Stupid of Cupid
The Fastest Crumb in the West
Loafer, Come Back to Me
The Big Bad Wife
Loco Boy Makes Good
A Taste of Money
Here Comes the Bribe
Hobo a Go Go
Brats in Your Belfry
Goofy Goofy Gander
Somebody Down Here Hates Me
Never on a Bum-Day
A Jerk of All Trades
The Plight Before Christmas
Monotony on the Bounty
When Nut-Hood Was in Flower
Shine On, Harvest Goon
Concert in Pantomime
The Agony and the Nag-Ony
Down the Old Chisholm Trail with the Old Chiseler
Be It Ever So Homely, There’s No Face Like Clem
Half a Loafer Is Better Than None
A Thousand and One Arabian Nuts
Red Skelton Scrapbook
Love at First Fright
Goodbye, Mr. Gyp
The Bum Who Came in from the Cold
Bratman
A Beauty Can Skin You Deep
Our Man Fink
Sweet Smell of Failure
Stupidity: Italian Style
Season 16 ( 1966-09-13)
How to Succeed in Loafing Without Really Trying
Eenie Meenie Minee Schmo
Chiseler on the Roof
Much Ado About Nagging
Mother Knows Pest
Land of Bilk and Money
It Happened One Nut
What Did You Do in the Dump, Daddy?
A Gyp Off the Old Block
The Best Money a Sheriff Can Buy
Jerk Be Nimble
Better Dead Than Wed
The Fastest Cuspidor in the West
The Christmas Spirit
The Taming of the Screw-Loose
In One Head
Freddie’s Heroes
The Fortune Crookie
Absence Makes the Hate Grow Fonder
Sappiness Is Just a Thing Called Clem
Better Living Through Chiseling
A Bottle of Bumb
Not With My Dump You Won’t
Parlor, Bedroom & Wrath
Schnook of Araby
It’s a Treat to Beat a Cheat on the Mississippi Mud
A Bum for All Seasons
Next Time Try the Brain
That Junk Built
Loused in Space
Once Upon a Dunce
The Nag and I
Season 17 ( 1967-09-05)
For Better or Worse Like George Appleby Got
The Seven Ages of Man
Saddle Sores on the Old Corral
The Spy with the Leaky Mouth
Where There’s Smoke, There’s a Dragon
A Spy Is a Peeping Tom on Salary
Clothes Make the Bum
A New York Stripper Is Not Always a Steak
Hippie Days Are Here Again
The Bear Was a Barefaced Liar
Climb Upon My Knee, Dummy Boy
Red’s Relatives
Little Old Rainmaker: Me
He Who Steals My Dump Steals Trash
Marriage Is Made in Heaven and Las Vegas
A Christmas Urchin
When East Meets West, You Need a New Compass
Red Skelton One-Man Show
Dial M for Moron
Fairy Tales for Old Children
Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch
Sheriffs Are Bought, Not Made
Cauliflower Ears That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La
United Nations Second Show
I Never Met a Pig I Didn’t Like
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of George Appleby
San Fernando: Man with a Heart of Stolen Gold
The Pied-Eyed Piper
The Love Bug’ll Getcha If You Don’t Use DDT
Episode 30
Rings on Her Fingers Also Go Through Your Nose
Season 18 ( 1968-09-24)
He Who Steals My Robot Steals Trash
Guess Whose Dinner Is Coming to Freddie?
Cauliflower Fiddles While Bolivar Burns
The Revenge of Prudence Pennyfeather or Wide Saddles in the Old Corral
A Woman’s a Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Mouth
To Get Married
Necessarily From Mustard
People With Money
And Momma Makes Three
Love Is a Funny Thing
Other Place Closed
Two on the Isle
A Christmas Story: 1777
Should See a Doctor
He Lost the East
The Pledge of Allegiance
Wooden Gift Horse
Beauty is Only Skin Deep Unless You’re a Banana
Why Show Must Go On
Beneath This Ragged Shirt
Ed Wynn Tribute
Deadeye Goes to School
Kingdom of Iodine
Give a Man Enough Rope
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Forget It
Vagrancy is Just Loitering that Takes a Little Longer
Uneasy Lies the Neck that Wears the Noose
Button Up Your Overcoat: You Forgot Your Pants
Will the Real Robin Hood Please Fall Out of the Tree?
You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But He’ll Go by Himself to Scotch
The Boston Pops Show
Season 19 ( 1969-09-23)
Pop the Astronaut
The Happening That Happened in Taxes
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man – But You Can Try
The Traveling Saleslady and the Farmer’s Son
Willie Lump Lump’s Birthday
John Wayne’s 40th Anniversary or Hominy and True Grits
The Emergency Case or See Your Doctor Once a Year Even If It Kills You
Alaska or an Icicle Built for Two
Singing Waiters, Hillbilly Songwriters
There’s One Thing Money Won’t Buy and Someday We’ll Find Out What It Is
It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost – Much Better
He Wanted to Be a Square Shooter But He Found That his Barrel was Round
The Son of Oliver Twist or Junior Is Just a Little Dickens
Episode 14
Crime Doesn’t Pay But It’s Tax Free
You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country If You Promise Not to Bring Him Back
If Marriages Are Made in Heaven, Why Do They Call It Heaven?
There’s No Business Like Show Business, But When There’s No Business, Show Business Goes Out of Business Just Like Any Other Business
Charity Begins at Home, But Nowadays, Who Can Afford a Home?
Is This Anyway to Ruin an Airline?
When East Meets West, You’ve Sure Got a Skinny Country
People Who Like People Are Cannibals
The Three Musketeers Ride Again, Those Ding-Dong Daddies from Dumas
Bill Bailey Must Have Been Married, That’s Why He Never Came Home
Blood Is Thicker Than Water and Harder to Shave With
He Died with His Boots on Cause He Had Cold Feet to Start or He Died with His Boots Off, That’s Why He Stubbed His Toe
San Fernando’s Spy School or How to Make a Possible Mission Impossible
Be It Ever So Crumbled, There Is No Place Like Home
Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make: So They Added Iron Bars
Season 20 ( 1970-09-14)
The Magic Act
Freddie's Desperate Hour
Superman and Son
Clem’s Witness
The Bad Guys and the Good Girls
The Census Taker
Hiring the Secretary
Episode 8
A True Friend
The Football Agent
Humperdoo’s Monster
The Yacht Club
Stagecoach Hijack
The Red Skelton Christmas Show
Junior and Sunday Morning
Humperdoo's Little Prescription
Instant Marriage Mill
The Auction
Freddie's Country Home
The Castaways
The Garage Sale
Humperdoo's Magic Tire
The Sheriff Hater
The Candidate's Director
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