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The Red Skelton Show

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1951–1971·Ended·20 Seasons·672 Episodes·30 min·NBC·Sunday · 20:00

Studio: CBS, NBC, Sursum Corporation, Van Bernard Productions

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Overview

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.

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Seasons

Season 139 episodes

1951

How to Wash a Baby

Dunking Doughnuts

Smokeless Sunday

Laying a Cornerstone

Willie and the Burglar

Clem and Married Life

The Skeltons at Home

Learn To Dance in Ten Easy Lessons or One Hard One

McPugg the Babysitter

Rock-a-Bye Baby

San Fernando Red on Television

The Transcontinental

The Disc Jockey

How to Make a Salad

Pasquale's Hotel

How to Eat Corn on the Cob

Willie the Barber

Clem's Travel Club

The Railroad Tower

It Takes All Kinds (Live in San Francisco)

Let's Talk About Mother

Telephone Trouble

The Railroad Station

Tornado Deadeye

Let's Talk About Father

Season 239 episodes

1952

Willie Comes Home

Willie Paints a Room

Stagecoach Robbery

Calling Dr. Prankenstein

Lieutenant Muscles

Clem Kadiddlehopper's Graduation

Weepy Talks Turkey

One Man's Mortgage

The Christmas Show

Highlight of 1951-52 season

Drug Store; Private Eye

The Whistle Stop

Helen O'Connell

How to Eat Corn

Telephone Booth

Ambulance Driver

Quiz Show Winner

The Eyes Have It

Sure As Shootin'

Baby's First Birthday

Washing the Elephant

Freddie Becomes a Star-Gazer

Scarlet Ribbons

Helen O'Connell

Deadeye from Mars

Season 339 episodes

1953

McPugg's Last Fight

Clem and the Check

Appleby's Cocktail Party

The Nervous Tenor's Auction

Appleby the Dreamer

Freddie's Masquerade

The Marriage Broker

How to Be Happily Married

California Gold Rush

Flugelmeyer's Secret Formula

It Happened at the Stationhouse

Christmas With the Skeltons

The Great White Hunter

Accidents Will Happen

A Voyage to Paris

What Fathers Should Know

Clem the Campus Soda Jerk

Deadeye at the Golden Nugget

Cave-Man Marriage

Toots Shor Show

Uncle Sam Wants You

Sherlock Holmes Satire

Freddie's Picnic

Clem in the South Pacific

The Artist's Dilemma

Clem Goes to Mexico

Mississippi Showboat

Freddie Goes to the Cleaners

Dial 'B' for Brush

Season 439 episodes

1954

Clem the Rookie

What Goes Down, Must Come Up

Columbus and Isabella

Romeo and Juliet

The Andrews Sisters

Clem Goes to College

He Made Good in the City

USO Thanksgiving

Chicago Red in Las Vegas

Tribute to Guys and Dolls/The Stuntman

The Unwanted Christmas Tree

Skelton Goes Back to School

Honeymooners Spoof

Love Thy Neighbor

Red Goes to Barber College

Smithers & McGurk visit Persian Shah

Seach for Uranium

Look Magazine Movie Awards Show

Red Goes to Prison

Sleeping Beauty Ballet

Hospital Mix-Up

Smithers & McGurk Western Café

South American Beauty Contest

Smithers & McGurk Go to Australia

Red Becomes a Prop Man

Sheik Slave Market

Tippy Toe Dancing School for Teenagers

Red Goes to Japan

Freddy the Freeloader's Past

Season 537 episodes

1955

Money, Money, Money

The Sweetie of Tahiti

TV vs. the Electric Guitar

Fish Peddler's Thanksgiving

Phantom of the Ballet

Deadeye vs. the Lone Ranger

The Cop and the Anthem

Cookie and Zsa Zsa Gabor

Willie Resists Girls

The Sculpture Show

Freddie on a Luxury Liner or Bum Overboard

The Election Show

Valentine's Day Double Date (Original)

Salesman vs. Mad Scientist or A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

Cookie Returns or Cookie in Korea

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Freddie vs. the Freeway

Stages of Evolution

Hollywood Plumber

County Fair or Minister of Agriculture

Season 636 episodes

1956

McPugg's Comeback

Bolivar's Song or Shagnasty Composer

Freddie Votes or Election Fiddle

The Magic Shoes

Appleby's Millions

The First Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims

The Atomic Sailor

Clem Goes Hollywood

San Fernando Goes Straight

Freddie the Count

The Sailor Takes a Wife

Freddie, the Contest Winner

Cauliflower Wrestler

Freddie Finds a Headlight

Appleby Goes Abroad

San Fernando's Showboat

Clem Strikes Oil

Freddie's Surprise Party

Appleby's House

Clem's Fish Market

Romeo and Juliet

Robinson Crusoe

Mean Widdle Girl

Bolivar's Double

Freddie and the Happy Helper

Clem's Inheritance

Cookie in Cuba II

Freddie the Star

Cookie's Secret

Appleby's Invention

Hollywood Agent

Season 735 episodes

1957

Freddie and the Brooklyn Dodgers

Clem in New York

Cesar Romero Hires Deadeye for TV Series

Cookie and the Satellite

Appleby's Patio

Monsieur Clem's Fashions

Bolivar the Repairman

Freddie's Thanksgiving

The Round Table

Deadeye the Outlaw

Willie on the Wagon

Appleby and the Ape

Freddie Finds a Fortune

Bolivar's Beauty Salon

Clem the Bullfighter

Appleby's Garage

Freddie's New Home

Clem the Dentist

Appleby and the Ape II

Cauliflower's Hamburger Stand

Clem, the Photographer

San Fernando's Filibuster

Bolivar Gets Amnesia

The Kadiddlehopper Mural or Clem the Artist

Appleby's Midnight Ride

San Fernando's Singing Sensation

Friends of Red Skelton Variety Show

Appleby Wins a House

Freddie and the Millionare

Cauliflower's Reducing Salon

Bolivar and the Lost Patrol

Season 831 episodes

1958

Freddie and the World Series Ticket

Clem and the Satellite

Bolivar the Quiz Champion

Freddie and the Election

Appleby Goes Hunting

Deadeye the Indian Scout

Freddie and the Turkey Dinner

Bolivar's Double Date

Clem the Interior Decorator

San Fernando in Alaska

Freddie in the Black Box

Appleby and the Ice Man

Cauliflower and the Kidnappers

Clem and the Merry Widow

Freddie Gets a Job

Clem in Miami Beach

San Fernando Loses the Dixie Queen

Humphrey School of Dramatic Arts

Freddie and the Public Enemy

Cookie in Japan

Deadeye and the Rustlers

Appleby's Formula

Freddie's Mothers Day

San Fernando the Swami

Appleby the Witness

Freddie the Singer

Cauliflower In Hollywood

Season 932 episodes

1959

Freddie's Beat Shack

Clem's General Store

Appleby's Bird Woman

Deadeye and the Girl Bandit

San Fernando's Treasure Hunt

Freddie and Fabian

Appleby the Weatherman

San Fernando's Thanksgiving

Appleby: The Big Producer

Bolivar the Songwriter

Clem the Mailman

Deadeye Turns in His Badge

Clem the Disc Jockey

Clem Kadiddlehopper in Dog Patch

Appleby the Muscle Man

Cauliflower and the Syndicate

San Fernando and Fabian

Bolivar and the Roaring Twenties

Skelton and Mae West

Deadeye the Blacksmith

Freddie's Masterpiece

Clem the Private Eye or 77 Moonset Strip

San Fernando for Governor

Freddie's Millions

Clem's Fountain of Youth

Super-Cauliflower

San Fernando's Marriage Mill

Freddie in Las Vegas

Clem and the Beanstalk

Appleby's Fallout Shelter

The Many Skeltons

Season 1035 episodes

1960

Laughter, the Universal Language

Appleby's Predictions

Clem the Candidate

Deadeye and the Magician

Freddie's Manhattan

San Fernando's Investigating Committee

Appleby's Time Machine

Clem the Animal Psychiatrist

The Racine Show

Danny Thomas Show

The Garry Moore Show

We're Gonna Have a Party

Pantomime Concert

Freddie and the Baby

Deadeye and the Alamo

Appleby's Cufflinks

Clem the Genius

Appleby's Castle

Cauliflower and the Fight Fix

Freddie's Shipwreck

San Fernando and Herbie

Clem's Watermelons

Appleby's Sleepwalk

Freddie Gets Sick

Appleby's Remote Control

Season 1134 episodes

1961

Clem the Unkissable

Appleby's Marriage License

Freddie's Benefactor

Deadeye and the Gunslinger

Sing Along With Cauliflower

Freddie's Romance

The Almost Late George Appleby

Clem's Other Clem

Once Upon a Turkey

The Great Brain Robbery

Mr. K Goes to College

San Fernando and the Kaaka Maami Island

Freddie and the Yuletide Doll

Appleby's Office Party

Nothing But the Tooth

Freddie, Willing and Able

Appleby's Anniversary

Clem and the Kadiddlehopper Hop

The Many Skeltons in Las Vegas

Freddie and the Landlord

The Iceman Goeth

Calling Dr. Kadiddlehopper

Appleby's Bearded Boarder

The Nine Lives of Freddie

The Bride of Bolivar

Clem and the Dalton Girls

Pantomimic Presentation of a Person's Problems in a Park

How To Think Up A Television Title Without Being Sued

Rock on the Wild Side

This Goon for Hire

Freddie and the Daily Freeloader

Cauliflower Loses His Birds

Season 1232 episodes

1962

Somebody Up There Should Stay There

The Greatest Schmo on Earth

The Mayor of Central Park

The Booze Man of Alcatraz

One Good Intern Deserves Another

Rupert The Stupert

Dial P for Plumber

Ten Baby Fingers and 12 Baby Toes

March of the Litterbugs

Who Put the Bobby Sox in Mr. Appleby's Chowder?

Once Upon A Flea

How The West Was Lost

Freddie and the Yuletide Doll

Of Mouth and Men

Where There's a Will, There's a Wife

Have Rickshaw, Will Travel

Children Should Be Seen But Not Had

Witness for the Persecution or Half a Lawyer Is Better Than None

Much Ado About Knotting

Red Fails in the Sunset

Advice to the Loveworn

My Friend The Enemy

The Bel Air Haykickers

After the Bald Is Over

Frontier Coward

Come to Me, My Melon-Headed Baby

The Portrait of Dorian Appleby

How Green Was My Money

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Wife

A Midsummer Nut's Dream

Captains Outrageous

Jerk and the Beanstalk

Season 1332 episodes

1963

Passion in Pasadena or Love is a Many-Splintered Thing

My Son the Monster

Pop is a Weasel

Bewitched, Bothered and Brainless

Don’t Sit Under the Tombstone with Anybody Else But Me

Get Thee to the Cannery

Do You Take This Woman for You Awful Wedded Wife

It’s So Nice to Have a Louse Around the House

The Bachelor and the Boobyhatcher

Good Night Sour Prince

It’s A Treat To Sell Your Wheat In The Vladivostok Mud

Sing a Song of Sing Sing

The Mouth Shall Rise Again

Will the Real Clara Appleby Please Shut Up or To Tell a Fib

Shrink My Head I’m a Stranger in Paradise or Stroodel and Freudloader-Instant Brainwashers

Sit Down Your Rockin the Vote

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Dump

That’s the Way the Fortune Cookie Crumbles

Cast Your Brat Upon the Water

Lives of a Bungle Lancer

Take Her She’s Mean

How Are Things in Glocca Moron?

On Top of Old Hokey

One Man's Mate Is Another Man's Poison

I Was an S.A.P. for the C.I.A.

Tip Toe Thru the Trash Cans

I Want to Go Where the Wild Goof Goes

The Goon and Six Pence

Keep Tramp Fires Burning

I Came, I Saw, I Conked Her

Heading for Last Roundup

Crime Doesn't Pay (Like It Used To)

Season 1432 episodes

1964

Be It Ever So Grumble, There’s No Place Like Home

The Taming of the Schmo

A Man’s Dump Is His Castle

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Harem

The Most Sappy Fella

The Mouth That Roared

Red Skelton in London

A Sap’s Fable or The Great Brain Robbery

The Fastest Goon in the West

Love, Your Tragic Smell Is Everywhere or A Hat Full of Hate

When It’s Teepee Time Down South

Mamma’s Little Monster

The Plight Before Christmas

A Man and His Money Are Soon Parted or A Fool and His Money Are Soon Married

A Bad Man Nowadays Is Hard to Find

Lame Brain for a Day

The Seven Year Wretch

A Creep in the Deep

A Concert in Pantomime

Yellow Belly in a Purple Sage

Lookie Lookie Here Comes Crookie

The Red Skelton Scrapbook

Nuts at Round Table

Panhandle with Care

Sweet Misery of Wife

The Unteachables

The Golden West

More Truth Than Poultry

Season 1532 episodes

1965

How Stupid of Cupid

The Fastest Crumb in the West

Loafer, Come Back to Me

The Big Bad Wife

Loco Boy Makes Good

A Taste of Money

Here Comes the Bribe

Brats in Your Belfry

Goofy Goofy Gander

Somebody Down Here Hates Me

Never on a Bum-Day

A Jerk of All Trades

The Plight Before Christmas

Monotony on the Bounty

When Nut-Hood Was in Flower

Shine On, Harvest Goon

Concert in Pantomime

The Agony and the Nag-Ony

Down the Old Chisholm Trail with the Old Chiseler

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

Half a Loafer Is Better Than None

A Thousand and One Arabian Nuts

Red Skelton Scrapbook

Love at First Fright

Goodbye, Mr. Gyp

The Bum Who Came in from the Cold

A Beauty Can Skin You Deep

Sweet Smell of Failure

Stupidity: Italian Style

Season 1632 episodes

1966

How to Succeed in Loafing Without Really Trying

Eenie Meenie Minee Schmo

Chiseler on the Roof

Much Ado About Nagging

Mother Knows Pest

Land of Bilk and Money

It Happened One Nut

What Did You Do in the Dump, Daddy?

A Gyp Off the Old Block

The Best Money a Sheriff Can Buy

Better Dead Than Wed

The Fastest Cuspidor in the West

The Christmas Spirit

The Taming of the Screw-Loose

Freddie’s Heroes

The Fortune Crookie

Absence Makes the Hate Grow Fonder

Sappiness Is Just a Thing Called Clem

Better Living Through Chiseling

A Bottle of Bumb

Not With My Dump You Won’t

Parlor, Bedroom & Wrath

Schnook of Araby

It’s a Treat to Beat a Cheat on the Mississippi Mud

A Bum for All Seasons

Next Time Try the Brain

That Junk Built

Loused in Space

Once Upon a Dunce

Season 1731 episodes

1967

For Better or Worse Like George Appleby Got

The Seven Ages of Man

Saddle Sores on the Old Corral

The Spy with the Leaky Mouth

Where There’s Smoke, There’s a Dragon

A Spy Is a Peeping Tom on Salary

Clothes Make the Bum

A New York Stripper Is Not Always a Steak

Hippie Days Are Here Again

The Bear Was a Barefaced Liar

Climb Upon My Knee, Dummy Boy

Red’s Relatives

Little Old Rainmaker: Me

He Who Steals My Dump Steals Trash

Marriage Is Made in Heaven and Las Vegas

A Christmas Urchin

When East Meets West, You Need a New Compass

Red Skelton One-Man Show

Dial M for Moron

Fairy Tales for Old Children

Love Is an Itch You Can’t Scratch

Sheriffs Are Bought, Not Made

Cauliflower Ears That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La

United Nations Second Show

I Never Met a Pig I Didn’t Like

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of George Appleby

San Fernando: Man with a Heart of Stolen Gold

The Pied-Eyed Piper

The Love Bug’ll Getcha If You Don’t Use DDT

Rings on Her Fingers Also Go Through Your Nose

Season 1831 episodes

1968

He Who Steals My Robot Steals Trash

Guess Whose Dinner Is Coming to Freddie?

Cauliflower Fiddles While Bolivar Burns

The Revenge of Prudence Pennyfeather or Wide Saddles in the Old Corral

A Woman’s a Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Mouth

Necessarily From Mustard

People With Money

And Momma Makes Three

Love Is a Funny Thing

Other Place Closed

Two on the Isle

A Christmas Story: 1777

Should See a Doctor

He Lost the East

The Pledge of Allegiance

Wooden Gift Horse

Beauty is Only Skin Deep Unless You’re a Banana

Why Show Must Go On

Beneath This Ragged Shirt

Ed Wynn Tribute

Deadeye Goes to School

Kingdom of Iodine

Give a Man Enough Rope

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Forget It

Vagrancy is Just Loitering that Takes a Little Longer

Uneasy Lies the Neck that Wears the Noose

Button Up Your Overcoat: You Forgot Your Pants

Will the Real Robin Hood Please Fall Out of the Tree?

You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But He’ll Go by Himself to Scotch

The Boston Pops Show

Season 1929 episodes

1969

Pop the Astronaut

The Happening That Happened in Taxes

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man – But You Can Try

The Traveling Saleslady and the Farmer’s Son

Willie Lump Lump’s Birthday

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

The Emergency Case or See Your Doctor Once a Year Even If It Kills You

Alaska or an Icicle Built for Two

Singing Waiters, Hillbilly Songwriters

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

It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost – Much Better

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

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

Crime Doesn’t Pay But It’s Tax Free

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

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

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

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

Is This Anyway to Ruin an Airline?

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

People Who Like People Are Cannibals

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

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

Blood Is Thicker Than Water and Harder to Shave With

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

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

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

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

Season 2025 episodes

1970

Freddie's Desperate Hour

Superman and Son

Clem’s Witness

The Bad Guys and the Good Girls

The Census Taker

Hiring the Secretary

The Football Agent

Humperdoo’s Monster

Stagecoach Hijack

The Red Skelton Christmas Show

Junior and Sunday Morning

Humperdoo's Little Prescription

Instant Marriage Mill

Freddie's Country Home

The Garage Sale

Humperdoo's Magic Tire

The Sheriff Hater

The Candidate's Director

Added: 5/18/2026Updated: 6/4/2026