The Red Skelton Hour Season 3 Episodes

Episode 1

McPugg's Last Fight

Tue, Sep 22, 195330 mins

Red Skelton performs as Cauliflower McPugg and Freddie the Freeloader.

Episode 2

Clem and the Check

Tue, Sep 29, 195330 mins

Episode 3

Appleby's Cocktail Party

Tue, Oct 6, 195330 mins

Episode 4

The Nervous Tenor's Audition

Tue, Oct 13, 195330 mins

Episode 5

Hobo's Dilemma

Tue, Oct 20, 195330 mins

Red plays Freddie the Freeloader who tries to convince a boy not to run away from home and become a hobo like him.

Episode 6

Appleby the Dreamer

Tue, Oct 27, 195330 mins

Red Skelton performs as George Appleby and Sheriff Deadeye.

Episode 7

Freddie's Masquerade

Tue, Nov 3, 195330 mins

Red Skelton performs as Freddie the Freeloader.

Episode 8

The Marriage Broker

Tue, Nov 10, 195330 mins

Episode 9

How to Be Happily Married

Tue, Nov 17, 195330 mins

Episode 10

California Gold Rush

Tue, Nov 24, 195330 mins

Episode 11

Flugelmeyer's Secret Formula

Tue, Dec 1, 195330 mins

Clem Kadiddlehopper must defend Flugelmeyers secret beer formula from spies.

Episode 12

Dr. Schlepper

Tue, Dec 8, 195330 mins

Episode 13

It Happened at the Stationhouse

Tue, Dec 15, 195330 mins

Episode 14

Christmas with the Skeltons

Tue, Dec 22, 195330 mins

Episode 15

The Great White Hunter

Tue, Dec 29, 195330 mins

Red Skelton performs as Cauliflower McPugg. Cameo: John Wayne.

Episode 16

Accidents Will Happen

Tue, Jan 5, 195430 mins

Red Skelton performs as Freddie the Freeloader. Guest Star: Jackie Gleason.

Episode 17

A Voyage to Paris

Tue, Jan 12, 195430 mins

Episode 18

What Fathers Should Know

Tue, Jan 19, 195430 mins

Episode 19

Clem the Campus Soda Jerk

Tue, Jan 26, 195430 mins

Episode 20

The Train Trip

Tue, Feb 2, 195430 mins

Red Skelton performs as Freddie the Freeloader, San Fernando Red, and Willie Lump-Lump.

Episode 21

Deadeye at the Golden Nugget

Tue, Feb 9, 195430 mins

Ed Sullivan joins Red's monologue and interviews Cauliflower McPugg. Also Red as Deadeye plays cards in a saloon and is captured by Indians

Episode 22

Captain Hook

Tue, Feb 16, 195430 mins

Episode 23

Cave-Man Marriage

Tue, Feb 23, 195430 mins

Episode 24

Toots Shor Show

Tue, Mar 2, 195430 mins

Episode 25

Uncle Sam Wants You

Tue, Mar 9, 195430 mins

Episode 26

Sherlock Holmes Satire

Tue, Mar 16, 195430 mins

Red Skelton performs as Willie Lump-Lump. Guest Star: Melville Cooper.

Episode 27

Episode #3.27

Tue, Mar 23, 195430 mins

Episode 28

King Putt

Tue, Mar 30, 195430 mins

Episode 29

Freddie's Picnic

Tue, Apr 6, 195430 mins

Episode 30

Going to Work

Tue, Apr 13, 195430 mins

Episode 31

Episode #3.31

Tue, Apr 20, 195430 mins

Episode 32

Episode #3.32

Tue, Apr 27, 195430 mins

Episode 34

The Referee

Tue, May 4, 195430 mins

Red does a monologue including a reference to the Private Schine photograph in the ongoing Army-McCarthy hearings. He interacts with an audience member (Johnny Carson) in a gag about pitted glass in his glasses. The two main skits involve him as a group of foreign news reporters, "Lord Beaverhead", a Brit who keeps "sweetening" his tea with shots of booze, and produces props like a misshapen world globe and a big fish that sings "Some Enchanted Evening." The others are a french, Danish and Indian counterpart, named "John Cameron Sabu" who reads dispatches from a snake in a basket. The other shows him as Cauliflower McPugg, the punchy boxer, trying his hand at refereeing a middleweight match, but getting caught up in the action.

Episode 35

Prince Valiant

Tue, May 11, 195430 mins

Red Skelton performs as George Appleby. Special guest: Johnny Carson.

Episode 36

The Artist's Dilemma - guest Tom Harmon

Tue, May 18, 195430 mins

Episode 37

Clem Goes to Mexico

Tue, May 25, 195430 mins

Red Skelton performs as Clem Kadiddlehopper. Special Guest: Lola Montes.

Episode 38

Mississippi Showboat

Tue, Jun 1, 195430 mins

Red Skelton performs as Willie Lump-Lump.

Episode 39

Freddie Goes to the Cleaners

Tue, Jun 8, 195430 mins

Episode 40

Dial 'B' for Brush with guest performers Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr. & Vampira

Tue, Jun 15, 195430 mins

The show is 26 min. long, including Red's opening monologue and a weatherman skit. The Bela/Lon/Vampira skit is intact. SPOILERS: The writing is not exactly Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein quality, but Skelton is amusing. He slips in a marijuana joke, and a tranny joke re Denmark (Christine Jorgensen was in the news.) "Dial B for Brush" comprises most of the show, taking place on three different sets (home lab, graveyard, and morgue with working Jacob's ladder) which are pretty elaborate for TV. There's also an ambitious dance-routine (giving band leader David Rose a chance to shine) with ghosts and skeletons double-exposed into the graveyard set. Clem Kadiddlehopper, for those who've never seen Red's character, is a Lou Costello without a brain to steal, though that doesn't stop Bela as "Prof. Lugosi" from trying. He wears a tux under his lab coat, and does the graveyard scene with Lon and Vampira in his Dracula cape. Lon barks like a dog, wears furry claws and wolf fangs, but takes the teeth out for dialogue (explaining that he just got new wolf dentures at the dentist's). He's Lugosi's half brother ("and half wolf") who sounds exactly like Lenny, and is named (for irony's sake) George. Vampira gets to do her famous shriek, and shows off her absolute deadpan delivery and her weirdly tiny waistline. The ad-libbing does not seem as distressing to Bela as some writers have maintained - many asides actually sound scripted. After his mind-swap, Clem calls Bela "Mother!" and Bela shoots back, "Yes?" then covers his mouth, as if embarrassed. Pretty sure that was arranged. Red also warns a bit player on Bela's gurney not to ad-lib around stars, which suggests Bela might have complained during rehearsal. At one point, Lon reads Red's cue card for him, and Red makes fun of Bela's pronunciation of "tetse" fly. Bela seems to be having fun (but you do worry about the old guy being chased around a set full of props and "bodies") while Lon and Red definitely are. Red's jokes are largely corny, but he did have a sharp wit - he was the one who at Harry Cohn's crowded funeral cracked, "See? You give the people what they want, and they'll turn out."