The Red Skelton Hour Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Series Premiere

Sun, Sep 30, 195130 mins

Episode 2

How to Wash a Baby

Sun, Oct 7, 1951

Episode 3

Streets of Laredo

Sun, Oct 14, 195130 mins

Episode 4

Smokeless Sunday

Sun, Oct 21, 195130 mins

Red appears as Willie Lump-Lump and Cauliflower McPugg.

Episode 5

Laying a Cornerstone

Sun, Oct 28, 1951

Episode 6

Willie and the Burglar

Sun, Nov 4, 195126 mins

In this program's sketches, Clem Kadiddlehopper sells real estate on TV; Red plays a TV pitchman hawking bottles of patent medicine while singing The Tennessee Waltz; The Pepperettes perform 'I Didn't Know the Gun was Loaded'; and in the Skelton Scrapbook segment titled 'Willie and the Burglar', an inebriated Willie Lump Lump hears a burglar in his house at 4:00 am.

Episode 7

Cafe Paree

Sun, Nov 11, 195126 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Willie Lump-Lump.

Episode 8

G.I. McPugg

Sun, Nov 18, 195126 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump, and Cauliflower McPugg.

Episode 9

Clem and Married Life

Sun, Nov 25, 195130 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper. With a special cameo appearance by Bob Hope.

Episode 10

Movies to Read By

Sun, Dec 2, 1951

Episode 11

The Big Trial

Sun, Dec 9, 195125 mins

Red appears as Sheriff Deadeye.

Episode 12

Clean Politics

Sun, Dec 16, 195130 mins

In the first segment, Clem has few customers while trying to sell Christmas trees, supposedly in a Los Angeles lot, though it's freezing, and it's snowed enough for a snow man. In the filmed (Tide ) segment, San Fernando Red appears at a political rally where another speaker, dressed in an old time Admiral's cap, punches him each time the word "Mud" is uttered. Red resolves to have non-mud-slinging campaign by using Tide Detergent, and produces a "Tide" banner. In the last segment, the singing group "The Four Knights" do the song "I Want to Hold You In My Arms Again". The knights are a black a cappella, plus guitar quartet, in the style of the Mills Brothers. Red then joins them in a parody number.

Episode 13

The Skeltons at Home

Sun, Dec 23, 195130 mins

In this Christmas episode, Mr. and Mrs. Red Skelton and their real-life children, Richard and Valentina are visited by friends Bo Roos and Gene Fowler. Red's TV characters, including Clem Kadiddlehopper, also drop by to wish Red's family a Merry Christmas.

Episode 14

Learn to Dance in Ten Easy Lessons or One Hard One

Sun, Dec 30, 195130 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper.

Episode 15

Fancy Footwork

Sun, Jan 6, 195230 mins

Football Coach Weepy is interviewed. Scrapbook: "The Bouncer starring Cauliflower McPugg" The Treniers perform "Go, Go, Go". Film Scrapbook: "The Golfer". Scrapbook: "The Corpus Delecti". Milton Berle cameo.

Episode 16

McPugg the Babysitter

Sun, Jan 13, 195225 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Cauliflower McPugg.

Episode 17

Clean Fighter

Sun, Jan 20, 195226 mins

Red appears as Willie Lump-Lump and Cauliflower McPugg.

Episode 18

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Sun, Jan 27, 195226 mins

Red performs, in his signature style, his hilarious observations of different kinds of people.

Episode 19

San Fernando Red on Television

Sun, Feb 3, 1952

Episode 20

The Transcontinental

Sun, Feb 10, 195226 mins

Red impersonates "The Continental" But instead of a cigarette, he offers his imaginary girlfriend (the viewer) a cigar, instead of champagne, an exploding bottle of beer, and takes a plucked chicken out of a long-stem flower box. In the "Skelton's Film Scrapbook" (Tide) segment, Sheriff Deadeye Shoots a bad guy on "The Streets of Loredo", covers the (rather lively) corpse with a sheet and attempts to sing the song of the same title, but he just can't, until the dirty sheet is taken off by Lucille Knoch offstage and cleans it with Tide. The final skit, "Topsy Turvy" finds Willie Lump Lump's wife teaching him a lesson by leaving him to wake up in a trick room where the furniture is nailed to the walls, the door is on another, and looks like the house is on it's side. Willie awakes and can't understand, first thinking he might be dead, then saying; "I wonder if Truman has repealed the law of gravity?!"

Episode 21

The Disc Jockey

Sun, Feb 17, 195225 mins

Red Skelton, America's Clown, preforms in side-splitting skits and comedy bits.

Episode 23

How to Make a Salad

Sun, Feb 24, 195230 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Willie Lump-Lump.

Episode 24

Pasquale's Hotel

Sun, Mar 2, 195226 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper.

Episode 25

Napoleon

Sun, Mar 16, 1952

Episode 26

How to Eat Corn on the Cob

Sun, Mar 23, 195226 mins

Red appears as Willie Lump-Lump and Cauliflower McPugg.

Episode 27

Willie the Barber

Sun, Mar 30, 195226 mins

Red appears as Willie Lump-Lump and San Fernando Red.

Episode 28

The Travel Club

Sun, Apr 6, 1952

Episode 29

The Mad Scientist

Sun, Apr 13, 1952

Episode 30

Helen of Troy

Sun, Apr 20, 1952

Episode 31

The Railroad Tower

Sun, Apr 27, 1952

Episode 32

Live in San Francisco

Sun, May 4, 195230 mins

Episode 33

Let's Talk About Mother

Sun, May 11, 195226 mins

Red Skelton, America's Clown, preforms in side-splitting skits and comedy bits celebrating Mother's Day.

Episode 34

Telephone Trouble

Sun, May 18, 195226 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Willie Lump-Lump.

Episode 35

The Railroad Station

Sun, May 25, 195226 mins

Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump and Cauliflower McPugg.

Episode 36

Tornado Deadeye

Sun, Jun 1, 195227 mins

Red appears as Sheriff Deadeye.

Episode 37

Folding Boy

Sun, Jun 8, 195226 mins

Red appears as Cauliflower McPugg.

Episode 38

Let's Talk About Father

Sun, Jun 15, 1952

Episode 39

Let's Talk About Father

Sat, Jun 21, 195230 mins

Red narrates a touching series of vignettes about how unappreciated fathers are in modern society.