The Red Skelton Hour Season 14 Episodes

Episode 1

Be It Ever So Grumble, There's No Place Like Home

Tue, Sep 22, 1964

Episode 2

The Taming of the Schmo

Tue, Sep 29, 196460 mins

Episode 3

A Man's Dump Is His Castle

Tue, Oct 6, 196460 mins

Red's guest is Metropolitan Opera singer Robert Merrill, who sings "Toreador" and "In the Still of the Night." Sketch: "A Man's Dump Is His Castle," and Freddie the Freeloader doesn't' like it when an archaeologist (Merrill) comes to the city dump and removes the remains of a dinosaur skeleton-part of which was supporting Freddie's shack.

Episode 4

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Harem

Tue, Oct 13, 196460 mins

Red's guests are comedian Ed Wynn. singer Vikki Carr, and character actress Mary Wickes. In the sketch, a visiting Sultan (Wynn) wants San Fernando Red to sell him an American wife. In the Silent Spot, Red is an outdoor chef with a brand-new barbecue. Vikki sings 'Bye, Bye, Blackbird" and "Loverland."

Episode 5

The Most Sappy Fella

Tue, Oct 20, 196460 mins

Episode 6

The Mouth That Roared

Tue, Oct 27, 196460 mins

Episode 7

Red Skelton in London

Tue, Nov 10, 196460 mins

Episode 8

A Sap's Fable or The Great Brain Robbery

Tue, Nov 17, 196460 mins

Episode 9

The Fastest Goon in the West

Tue, Nov 24, 196460 mins

Episode 10

Love, Your Tragic Smell Is Everywhere or A Hat Full of Hate Featuring Guest Stars Pat Boone and Will Jordan

Tue, Dec 1, 196460 mins

Episode 11

When It's Teepee Time Down South

Tue, Dec 8, 196460 mins

The world's richest Indian proves to be an easy mark for Fernando Red, who sells him worthless desert land for his mother's retirement home, but when he thinks it's an oil patch, he wants it back.

Episode 12

Mamma's Little Monster

Tue, Dec 15, 196460 mins

Guests are "Lonesome George" Gobel and the folk singing Young Folk. Sketch: After being turned down by scores 0f summer camps, Junior is accepted by camp counselor George Goodbody (Gobel).

Episode 13

The Plight Before Christmas

Tue, Dec 22, 196460 mins

Episode 14

A Man and His Money Are Soon Parted or A Fool and His Money Are Soon Married

Tue, Dec 29, 196460 mins

Episode 15

A Bad Man Nowadays Is Hard to Find

Tue, Jan 5, 196560 mins

Episode 16

Lame Brain for a Day

Tue, Jan 12, 196560 mins

Episode 17

The Seven Year Wretch

Tue, Jan 19, 196530 mins

While waiting in line for his unemployment check,George Appleby (Red) meets Archie Moore,also out of work. A man sells him a trained Bear, which he puts in a take-on-all-comers boxing show in a carnival. Moore shows up to challenge the bear. Red's silent spot pantomime involves a Holmesian detective chasing a hooded bad guy around a spooky house-type set.

Episode 18

A Creep in the Deep

Tue, Jan 26, 196560 mins

Episode 19

A Concert in Pantomime

Tue, Feb 2, 196560 mins

Episode 20

Yellow Belly in a Purple Sage

Tue, Feb 9, 196560 mins

Episode 21

Brain, Brain, Go Away

Tue, Feb 16, 196560 mins

Episode 22

Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie

Tue, Feb 23, 196560 mins

If you're feeling a bit under the weather. Red Skelton and his fellow performers may have the comedy cure for you tonight. Starting off with an opening monologue, he brings on the Tom Hansen Dancers with backing music by The Skeltones. Next he plays as San Fernando Sam who runs a fake employment agency who encourages his students to stage on the job accidents, and sue their employees, which of course will require 50% of the reprisals going to him. It just so happens a married maid and butler have been given the opportunity to work at the mansion of Count Moustache (Hugh O'Brien). After a fiasco messes up this sketch, O'Brien tries to play a doctor operating on the star of the show. Later, preteen Italian singing sensation Piccola Pupa does her own cover of Brenda Lee's "I Want to Be Wanted" in her own language, followed by the return of the Skeltones who sing "My Heart is a Hobo." Miss Pupa returns again to perform "La Musica Italiana." After a pantomime routine, Red reads an excerpt from the children's book "I Wonder Why" by Shirley Burden.

Episode 23

Dial 'O' for Nothing

Tue, Mar 2, 196560 mins

Episode 24

The Red Skelton Scrapbook

Tue, Mar 9, 196560 mins

"The Red Skelton Scrapbook" with John Wayne. Red attempts ballet, hilarious One Minute Dramas, the famous Dunking Donuts bit, and Willie Lump-Lump goes topsy turvy in this annual event.

Episode 25

Nuts of the Round Table

Tue, Mar 16, 196560 mins

Episode 26

Freddie at the South Pole or Panhandle with Care

Tue, Mar 23, 196560 mins

Episode 27

Appleby's Soul or Ah, Sweet Misery of Wife

Tue, Mar 30, 196560 mins

Episode 28

The Unteachables

Tue, Apr 6, 196560 mins

Episode 29

Junior's Bustin' Out All Over

Tue, Apr 13, 196560 mins

Episode 30

The Gall of the Golden West

Tue, Apr 20, 196560 mins

Episode 31

Ta-Ra-Ra-Bum-Today

Tue, Apr 27, 196560 mins

Episode 32

More Truth Than Poultry

Mon, May 3, 196560 mins