The Red Skelton Hour Season 19 Episodes

Episode 1

Pop the Astronaut

Tue, Sep 23, 196960 mins

Elderly Pop the janitor (Red Skelton) accidentally stows away on a rocket headed for space piloted by Peter Graves.

Episode 2

A Happening That Happened in Texas

Tue, Sep 30, 196960 mins

Episode 3

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man - But You Can Try

Tue, Oct 7, 196960 mins

Episode 4

The Traveling Saleslady and the Farmer's Son

Tue, Oct 14, 196960 mins

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.

Episode 5

Willie Lump Lump's Birthday

Tue, Oct 21, 196960 mins

Episode 6

John Wayne's 40th Anniversary or Hominy and True Grits

Tue, Oct 28, 196960 mins

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.

Episode 7

See Your Doctor Once a Year Even If It Kills You

Tue, Nov 4, 196960 mins

Episode 8

Alaska or an Icicle Built for Two

Tue, Nov 11, 196960 mins

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.

Episode 9

Singing Waiters, Hillbilly Songwriters

Tue, Nov 18, 196960 mins

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.

Episode 10

There's One Thing Money Won't Buy and Someday We'll Find Out What It Is

Tue, Nov 25, 196960 mins

Property developer Walter Brennan disguises himself as a bum in an attempt to trick Freddie the Freeloader into selling his shack in the junkyard. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a pilgrim who is having no luck in shooting a turkey for Thanksgiving.

Episode 11

It's Better to Have Loved and Lost - Much Better

Tue, Dec 2, 196960 mins

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.

Episode 12

He Wanted to Be a Square Shooter But He Found That His Barrel was Round

Tue, Dec 9, 196960 mins

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.

Episode 13

The Son of Oliver Twist or Junior Is Just a Little Dickens

Tue, Dec 16, 196960 mins

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.

Episode 14

Crime Doesn't Pay But It's Tax Free

Tue, Dec 30, 196960 mins

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.

Episode 15

You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country If You Promise Not to Bring Him Back

Tue, Jan 6, 197060 mins

Paw Kadiddlehopper takes his son Clem (Red) to Vincent Price's trade school to learn a trade. But with Clem causing trouble at every turn, it may prove more of a challenge that anyone thought. In "The Silent Spot," houseflies Red and Chanin Hale are in danger of being swatted.

Episode 16

If Marriages Are Made in Heaven, Why Do They Call It Heaven?

Tue, Jan 13, 197060 mins

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.

Episode 17

There's No Business Like Show Business, But When There's No Business, Show Business Goes Out of Business Just Like Any Other Business

Tue, Jan 20, 197060 mins

Episode 18

Charity Begins at Home, But Nowadays, Who Can Afford a Home?

Tue, Jan 27, 197060 mins

Episode 19

Is This Anyway to Ruin an Airline?

Tue, Feb 3, 197060 mins

Episode 20

When East Meets West, You've Sure Got a Skinny Country

Tue, Feb 10, 197060 mins

Episode 21

People Who Like People Are Cannibals

Tue, Feb 17, 197060 mins

Episode 22

The Three Musketeers Ride Again, Those Ding-Dong Daddies from Dumas

Tue, Feb 24, 197060 mins

Episode 23

Bill Bailey Must Have Been Married, That's Why He Never Came Home

Tue, Mar 3, 197060 mins

Episode 24

Blood Is Thicker Than Water and Harder to Shave With

Tue, Mar 10, 197060 mins

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.

Episode 25

He Died with His Boots on Cause He Had Cold Feet to Start or He Died with His Boots Off, That's Why He Stubbed His Toe

Tue, Mar 17, 197060 mins

Episode 26

San Fernando's Spy School or How to Make a Possible Mission Impossible

Tue, Mar 24, 197060 mins

Confidence man San Fernando Red is operating a phony school for spies. One of the female students tries to tell him about a pair of foreign spies who are planning on bringing a fatal end to Red's career. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a conventioneer suffering in a hotel room with one whopper of a hangover.

Episode 27

Be It Ever So Crumbled, There Is No Place Like Home

Tue, Mar 31, 197060 mins

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.

Episode 28

Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make: So They Added Iron Bars

Tue, Apr 7, 197060 mins

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.