The Red Skelton Hour

- Season 3

(1953)

Red Skelton performs as Cauliflower McPugg and Freddie the Freeloader.

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

Red Skelton performs as George Appleby and Sheriff Deadeye.

Red Skelton performs as Freddie the Freeloader.

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Clem Kadiddlehopper must defend Flugelmeyers secret beer formula from spies.

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

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

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

Red Skelton performs as Willie Lump-Lump.

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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 ...