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The Red Skelton Hour Season 15 Episodes

32 Episodes 1965 - 1966

Episode 1

How Stupid of Cupid

Tue, Sep 14, 196560 mins

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Episode 2

Fastest Crumb in the West

Tue, Sep 21, 196560 mins

Red appears as Sheriff Deadeye, who has faked his own death to avoid a confrontation with the Arizona Kid. When the Kid sends his mother after him, Deadeye decides to seek a cure for his cowardice from an Indian medicine man (guest Bobby Darin), who brews him up some "Brave Juice." In "The Silent Spot," Red is a millionaire yachtsman who loses his girlfriend to the first mate.

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Episode 3

Loafer, Come Back to Me

Tue, Sep 28, 196560 mins

Freddy the Freeloader (Red) urges his pal Muggsy (guest Mickey Rooney) to exploit his talent and try to get into show business. Later, when Muggsy is a big Hollywood star, Freddie shows up at his mansion and attempts to glom onto his success. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a boisterous rooster who meets a sexy hen, and decides to settle down.

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Episode 4

Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wife?

Tue, Oct 5, 196560 mins

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.

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Episode 5

Loco Boy Makes Good

Tue, Oct 12, 196560 mins

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.

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Episode 6

A Taste of Money

Tue, Oct 19, 196560 mins

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.

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Episode 7

Here Comes the Bribe

Tue, Oct 26, 196560 mins

Sheriff Deadeye hosts a barbecue to drum up votes for his reelection campaign. But when wandering singer Johnny Appleworm (guest Johnny Mathis) shows up, he threatens to expose the sheriff as the corrupt official that he is. In "The Silent Spot," Red and Carol Byron play Hansel and Gretel who stumble upon the candy covered house of an evil witch while trick-or-treating.

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Episode 8

Hobo a Go Go

Tue, Nov 2, 196560 mins

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Episode 9

Brats in Your Belfry

Tue, Nov 9, 196560 mins

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.

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Episode 10

Goofy Goofy Gander

Tue, Nov 16, 196560 mins

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.

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Episode 11

Somebody Down Here Hates Me

Tue, Nov 30, 196560 mins

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.

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Episode 12

Never on a Bum-Day

Tue, Dec 7, 1965

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.

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Episode 13

A Jerk of All Trades

Tue, Dec 14, 196560 mins

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.

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Episode 14

The Plight Before Christmas (Color Re-staging)

Tue, Dec 21, 196560 mins

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.

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Episode 15

Monotony on the Bounty

Tue, Dec 28, 196560 mins

San Fernando Red runs a crooked travel agency. His latest scam involves hiring the irresistible Harry Cleancut (guest Cesar Romero) to lure rich older women on Red's sea cruise. But when the ship sinks, they both end up on a strange island. In "The Silent Spot," Red is the harried proprietor of a fish shop who suffers greatly from an allergy to cats.

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Episode 16

When Nut-Hood Was in Flower

Tue, Jan 4, 196660 mins

"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!

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Episode 17

Shine On, Harvest Goon

Tue, Jan 11, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 18

Concert in Pantomime

Tue, Jan 18, 196660 mins

"A Woman Driver" (Red Skelton), "Marcel Marceau Flies a Kite", "Looking at the New Baby" (RS), "Bip Goes to an Audition", "The Fisherman and the Little Boy" (RS), "The Prize Fighters" (RS), "Marcel Marceau as the Sculptor", "The Circus Performer" (MM), "The Astronaut" (RS) and the Silent Spot "The Miracles of the Dolls" about dolls trying to make a little girl smile.

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Episode 19

The Agony and the Nag-Ony

Tue, Jan 25, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 20

Down the Old Chisholm Trail with the Old Chiseler

Tue, Feb 1, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 21

Be It Ever So Homely, There's No Face Like Clem

Tue, Feb 8, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 22

Half a Loafer Is Better Than None

Tue, Feb 15, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 23

A Thousand and One Arabian Nuts

Tue, Feb 22, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 24

Red Skelton Scrapbook 66 - guest John Wayne

Tue, Mar 1, 196660 mins

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Episode 25

Love at First Fright

Tue, Mar 22, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 26

Goodbye, Mr. Gyp

Tue, Apr 5, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 27

The Bum Who Came in from the Cold

Tue, Apr 12, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 28

Bratman

Tue, Apr 19, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 29

A Beauty Can Skin You Deep

Tue, Apr 26, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 30

Our Man Fink

Tue, May 3, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 31

Sweet Smell of Failure

Tue, May 10, 196660 mins

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.

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Episode 32

Stupidity: Italian Style

Tue, May 17, 196660 mins

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.

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