Episode list

The Red Skelton Hour

Pop the Astronaut
Elderly Pop the janitor (Red Skelton) accidentally stows away on a rocket headed for space piloted by Peter Graves.
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The Traveling Saleslady and the Farmer's Son
Highlights include Martha the traveling saleslady, in farm country, falls for Clem, and fantasizes themselves as an Indian princess and a Canadian Mounted Police officer.In the Silent Spot, Red's an inept but persistent process server using various unlikely disguises.
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John Wayne's 40th Anniversary or Hominy and True Grits
Red starts off with a monologue about how sex has affected movies, and mimes a little boy at a monster film. Guest John Wayne does a skit about different sorts of autograph hunters and one where Deadeye faces Rooster Cogburn in a saloon duel. The silent spot, titled "The Happy Irish Pub", sees Red hired as a jig-dancing, furniture-smashing bouncer.
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Alaska or an Icicle Built for Two
San Fernando Red is running a crooked General Store and selling phony oil leases in Alaska when Police Lt. Decker (Maurice Evans) shows up to arrest him. In "The Silent Spot," Red and an amorous secretary stay late at the office to take inventory.
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Singing Waiters, Hillbilly Songwriters
Red is a singing waiter at the turn of the century who tries to come up with some snappy new songs. But he and his partner (George Gobel) only succeed in causing chaos in the restaurant. Later, Red (as Clem Kadiddlehopper) and George (as Jed Dinglejumper), visit a country music producer and try to generate interest in their "songs." In "The Silent Spot," Red is a homeowner who must deal with the after-effects of a heavy morning snow.
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It's Better to Have Loved and Lost - Much Better
George Appleby (Red) is pressured by his high-spending wife (Janet Leigh) to demand a raise from his boss. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a "deconstruction" worker who arrives at a suburban home slated for demolition and prepares to use dynamite.
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He Wanted to Be a Square Shooter But He Found That His Barrel was Round
Crooked Sheriff Deadeye (Red) is the local judge and jury who finds he must contend with Bertha Bluenose (Agnes Moorehead) when she and her band of social reformers visit his saloon. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays an exterminator who is summoned by a scientist and his concupiscent assistant to deal with some super hormonal mice.
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The Son of Oliver Twist or Junior Is Just a Little Dickens
In this parody of "Oliver Twist," Red plays a young inmate in an orphanage, who soon escapes the clutches of Mr Rumble (Cyril Ritchard) and meets up with the Artful Dodger (Jack Wild), a street urchin who shows him how to become a successful pickpocket. In "The Silent Spot," Red is a jovial toy maker who employs magical powers to repair broken toys.
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Crime Doesn't Pay But It's Tax Free
Barbara Bain plays a journalist who is hired by a newspaper to locate and expose the infamous San Fernando Red, operating at a nearby carnival. In "The Silent Spot," Red "helps" his wife prepare for a New Year's eve party and causes nothing but trouble.
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If Marriages Are Made in Heaven, Why Do They Call It Heaven?
As a present to his wife on their twentieth wedding anniversary, George Appleby (Red) decides to take his wife (Pat Carroll) to the same night club where they originally met. There, they meet Duke Ellington and another married couple. In "The Silent Spot," Red visits a bar in which a magic mirror somehow reflects the true character of the patrons.
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Blood Is Thicker Than Water and Harder to Shave With
Guest Vincent Price plays a lawyer who is the long lost brother of Red's corrupt Sheriff Deadeye. Visiting the state prison, he attempts to secure a parole for his shifty client. In "The Silent Spot," Red appears as a very unlucky customer at a casino.
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Be It Ever So Crumbled, There Is No Place Like Home
Guest George Gobel answers a "Roommate Wanted" ad from Freddy the Freeloader, as he is sick and tired of his overbearing and ridiculously tidy spouse. But Freddy might turn out to be just as demanding. In "The Silent Spot," Red attends a class reunion, set sometime in the Roaring 20s.
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Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make: So They Added Iron Bars
Red and guest Cesar Romero appear as Bolivar Shagnasty and Butch, a pair of jailed convicts who effect an impromptu prison escape. In another sketch, Willie Lump Lump (Red) is a drunk who agrees to watch Clint Howard's juice stand, but ends up spiking the lemonade. Lastly, in "the Silent Spot," Red is Pops, a school crossing guard who is depressed when it seems no one cares that he is retiring.
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