Episode list

Cowardly Sheriff Deadeye seeks the aid of Native American Medicine Man Running Fever to lose his yellow streak but it backfires.

Comedy skits performed by Red Skelton with guest star Mickey Rooney.

Henpecked husband George Appleby (Red) accidentally gives his nagging wife (guest Patrice Munsel) a knock on the noggin at the grocery store, bringing on a case of amnesia. He convinces her that she is actually his maid and has her waiting on him hand and foot. But his attitude quickly changes when she accepts a date from the plumber. In "The Silent Spot," Red is a bachelor who comes home on a hot Summer night to encounter various obstacles to his sleep, including sticky clothes, an annoying parrot, and a bellicose mosquito.

Red as Clem Kadiddlehopper has become quite the champion of matchstick-piling. So, with the help of his cousin Goody Kadiddlehopper (guest Bobby Rydell), he decides to enter the Olympics for the USA. But with the loss of his pet Mexican jumping bean, can all be lost? In "The Silent Spot," Red is an old prospector having nothing but bad luck out in the desert.

Wealthy Mrs. Throckmorton hires bogus psychic San Fernando Red to locate her long lost son who will inherit a million dollars. Red finds it much simpler to impersonate the missing heir and collect the money. But he soon finds himself competing with the dowager's gardener (guest Harve Presnell) for the inheritance. In "The Silent Spot," Red is a proficient pickpocket with an uncanny knack for escapes.

Sheriff Deadeye (Red Skelton) is running for re-election, bribing the towns folk with money, roast pig, and kisses - but Johnny Appleworm (Johnny Mathis) is determined to point out his corruption to the town.

Red appears as the Mean Little Kid whose parents send him to reform school for his chronic lying. He soon meets an alien (guest Bill Dana) who arrives in a UFO from the planet Jupiter. After Red disables his craft, the alien is forced to accede to the kid's demands. In "The Silent Spot," Red is an inept Roman slave who causes trouble on his first day on the job.

When Clem Kaddidlehopper's hen starts to lay square eggs, it threatens Lord Richwealth (guest Stanley Holloway), who is a round Eggcup Tycoon. Clem is lured to England and promised an important government position to cease his egg production. In "The Silent Spot," Red is a famous actor who is afforded no respect at his premiere.

Red plays George Appleby, who is running himself ragged trying to hold down two jobs in order to come up with enough money to support his wife's brother (guest Robert Morse), who is trying to get through medical school. In "The Silent Spot," Red is a flame-haired mad scientist whose ad for help with his transplant experiment is answered by a beautiful assistant.

Red as Freddy the Freeloader tries to find shelter for the night at the saw mill but is chased away by mean cop Officer McGuire (guest Robert Vaughn). When Amy the Guardian Angel appears, she makes Freddy the mayor and he uses his power to make McGuire work for him. In "The Silent Spot," Red is a very nervous expectant father.

Pa Kaddiddlehopper fails to get Clem a job at the gas company, but soon finds that he has an incredible gift for detecting scents. While sniffing for gas leaks at Mme. Fragrant's (guest Tallulah Bankhead) perfume shop, she thinks he might be able to uncover the secret ingredients in her competitor's fragrances. In "The Silent Spot," Red is unaware that his flapper blind date is actually a set of twins, one very prim and reserved, the other, wild and abandoned.

Freddie K. Freeloader gets a Christmas surprise when Greer Garson lets him and his hobo friends use her theater to stage a Christmas show for children.

Comedy skits performed by Red Skelton with guest star Cesar Romero.

"When Nuthood Was In Flower" starring Forsooth (Skelton), an apprentice at Ye Olde Pain & Torture Shoppe, and Nogood (Milton Berle), the playboy son back from college. Milton can't keep his lines straight and Red has trouble keeping a straight face!

Guest Buddy Ebsen appears in his "Beverly Hillbillies" role as Jed Clampett whose accountant tells him he's making so much money that he needs to lose some of it for tax purposes. Jed hires Clem Kadiddlehopper to bring that about. But Clem seems to only accomplish the opposite. In "The Silent Spot," Red is Fumble the Magician, whose beautiful assistant is informed that she must keep him sober in order to retain her job.

All in mime. Short mime acts then a complete Silent Spot.

Red as George Appleby tries to drive his hated wife insane with the help of crooked "door-to-door Psychiatrist" Dr. Sigmund Fraud.(Vincent Price).In the monologue, Red enacts an encounter between a prospector and a rattlesnake, and in the silent spot, he's a musician searching for quiet inspiration in a tumbledown, desolate cabin, and finding anything but.

When he breaks the police camera, Sheriff Deadeye hires famous French artist Tooloose Latrec (guest George Gobel) to paint the picture of a crook he arrests. When he discovers that the painting is valuable, Deadeye ventures to France to get Tooloose to sign it. In "The Silent Spot," Red is mean old Mr. Scrooge, who runs a news stand and hates Christmas.

With his new job as stationmaster, Clem Kadiddlehopper manages to nearly wreck the incoming train. Amazed at Daisy June's (guest Tina Louise), adoration of Clem, European director Fritz Flicker (Roland Winters) decides to have an Ugly Man contest to pick a new star for his movies. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays the world's oldest secret agent who has stumbled upon an international spy ring.

Red as Freddy is caught after breaking into a men's club for explorers, where he's recognized by his long-lost father, Junglerot Freeloader (Ed Wynn). They go on to Africa in search of a rarely seen gorilla. later, Ed and Red celebrate Wynn's upcoming birthday with a big prop cake, and in the silent spot Red plays rich playboy forced to work at a bakery.

In ancient Arabia, Red plays hapless shop keeper Abou-Boob. Due to his incompetence, his mother sends him to live with his brother, Abou-Smart (guest Stubby Kaye), a rug merchant. When he discovers that he can make carpets fly with his sneezes, the brothers go into business. In "The Silent Spot," Red is a crotchety old man who gets into a tit-for-tat battle with his equally obstreperous elderly female neighbor.

In The Red Skelton Scrapbook 66, Red Skelton reprises several of his most beloved routines, including 'Dunking Doughnuts'. The second annual Red Skeltop Scrapbook is hosted by Red's friend John Wayne. And Red teases his friend with jokes about Duke, and how they first met.

Opening monologue

Stork: What I'm nervous about is flying over those senior citizen villages. They put up anti-aircraft guns! A series of jokes on hospitals, hospital gowns, and doctors

The Silent Spot - The Elopement

Red plays the part of a bachelor in the 1890's courting his lady love (Chanin Hale), But her father doesn't approve. It's frankly hilarious! Wonderful slapstick humor, where he keeps running afoul of the father, a chubby neighbor (Peggy Rea), the local police ...

The Quick Blackout comedy

For those who don't know, in vaudeville, very short comedy bits, normally 1 minute long, were called "quick blackouts". These include: The elephant gun. Red plays a man at a bar, having "one for the road". Red Skelton plays Thomas Alva Edison, trying to perfect his great invention. A short, but hilarious bit, as a kettledrum player. A brilliant mathematician. "What a brain, what a brain!" Take one spoonful in water.

Spectre of the Rose

Red Skelton spoofs the ballet. Spectre of the Rose, with Roberta Lubbell. It's equal parts touching and hilarious, as Mr. Skelton plays the spirit of her lost love. With a bad case of allergies!

Dunking Doughnuts

Red Skelton has done the Dunking Doughnuts routine many times, in vaudeville, on screen, and on his television show.

Red and John Wayne on stage

John Wayne gives Red Skelton tips on how to court a beautiful girl, Western style. With the help of the lovely Chanin Hale.

Upside Down Room

One of Red's classic - and expensive to produce - routines. The perpetually inebriated Willie Lump-Lump's wife (Chanin Hale) has decided to teach him a lesson. She's hired someone (Ray Kellogg) to modify a room. So, it looks like Willie's sleeping on the wall! And everything is 90 degrees off! There's a reason that Red included this in his movie, The Clown.

Whilst awaiting George Appleby to show up to a poker game, his buddies reminisce on how he met his domineering wife, Clara (Phyllis Diller), in college. It was hardly love at first sight, as Clara's mother, the college Dean, had to coerce George into dating her daughter. In "The Silent Spot," Red appears as a nervous first-time bank robber.

San Fernando Red takes over Agatha and Christy's Dress Shop from a pair of elderly ladies in order to set up a phony gym where he purports to train fighters. He quickly abandons the trio of hapless suckers he's "training" when Humphrey T. Humble (Jackie Coogan), a mild-mannered cello player, shows up. Although possessing great strength and pugilistic ability, he refuses to fight when Red offers him a contract to appear at Madison Square Garden.

In this take on medical dramas, Freddy the Freeloader is apparently immune from the latest ubiquitous flu bug. This draws the attention of two doctors (guests Jack Kruschen and Nancy Wilson), who take him back to their hospital lab to conduct tests. But when all the flu germs combine into one anthropomorphic entity, it kidnaps Freddy to deliberately infect him. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays an old man at the park who simply wants to help everyone, but only causes mayhem.

As the Mean Widdle Kid, Red plays the son of international jewel thief, Raffles Cavendish (guest Fernando Lamas). When he ventures out on his next big heist, the Kid sneaks out to follow him, determined to participate, much to Raffles' regret. In "The Silent Spot," Red is a Neanderthal cave man trying to invent the wheel, only to be distracted by beautiful cave women.

Red appears as George Appleby, whose voluptuous, spendthrift wife (guest Joyce Jameson) gets him a job as a volcano watcher. She spends lavishly when they get to the island where he is employed, but balks when she discovers that the law of the land is that he gets to have two additional wives. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a befuddled old man who prepares for a visit from his rock-and-roll loving granddaughter.

Having been tricked by the seductive Tessie Torso (Pat Priest), Red as Sheriff Deadeye finds he has been drafted into the army. He is posted to a nearby garrison where he soon discovers he is the sole defender against Mexican revolutionaries led by Pancho Vanilla (guest Robert Merrill). In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a starving sculptor.

Freddy the Freeloader finds himself the target of a gang of spies after an American agent (guest Jack Jones) gives him a coat covered with patches that conceal the names of other agents. After a deadly flight to Europe, the spies converge on Freddy. In the Silent Spot," Red plays a newly rich socialite who is preparing to throw a party.

In his ceaseless quest to find work for his dimwitted son Clem, Pa Kadiddlehopper manages to secure him a position with the Peace Corps. An assistant for the Corp (guest Petula Clark) takes Clem with her to Italy where, through sheer incompetence, he somehow manages to straighten out the leaning tower of Pisa. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a dangerously inept TV repair man.