The Red Skelton Timex Special

• 1960
• Comedy

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Red Skelton headlines this 60-minute, full-color "tribute" to Hollywood Boulevard. Among Red's guests are such nominally well-known personalities as Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, George Raft, Bobby Rydell and William Demarest. While strolling down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Red pays pantomimic tribute to several movie legends. He also has his feet planted in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, with a surly George Raftas the "planter", and portrays a starving actor hoping to be discovered at Schwab's Drugstore. William Demarest joins Red in a "Freddie the Freeloader" skit, and Bobby Rydell sings a tune at a record shop. In the final segment, Red and Sinatra perform a duet at Puccini's Restaurant, and Dinah Shore does her usual. First telecast November 30, 1960, The Red Skelton Timex Special was produced on videotape.