Name: The Red Skelton Show
Uploaded: 2026-04-20T12:07:49.000Z
Description: Between 1951 and 1971, Red Skelton cemented himself as one of America's most beloved comedians. For 20 years, and beyond, he and his special guests made sure laughter and levity found their way into people's homes and hearts every week.

Between 1951 and 1971, Red Skelton cemented himself as one of America's most beloved comedians. For 20 years, and beyond, he and his special guests made sure laughter and levity found their way into people's homes and hearts every week.

Questar Entertainment

Red brings eating corn to a whole new level of hilarity, Nat King Cole makes a special musical guest appearance, and David Rose and His Orchestra perform the "Poet and Peasant Overture."

How to Eat Corn

Ed Sullivan and The King Sisters appear with Red Skelton in this rollicking episode set in the 'ole Wild West.

Deadeye at the Golden Nugget

Red fights smog with a secret formula. Special guest appearance by George Raft.

The Smog Czar

At "The Do it Yourself Show," Red Red Skelton winds up finding himself owner of an unwanted trailer at Sadie Murphy's Trailer Park. With special guest Mary McCarty.

Love Thy Neighbor

Red Skelton hosts Look Magazine's Movie Award Show in this very special episode.

Look Magazine Movie Awards Show

Red Skelton and Freddie the Freeloader star in the Red Skelton Show's adaptation of "The Cop and the Anthem."

The Cop and the Anthem

Upon finding themselves adrift in a lifeboat after accidently leaving their Navy ship behind, Red and his friend Snorkel become marooned on a what they believe is a deserted island.

Desert Island

In a tribute to the Miles Standish-John Alden-Priscilla Mullins legend, Red Skelton plays the part of John Alden who ends up uniting the Pilgrims and Indigenous people in Thanksgiving harmony.

The First Thanksgiving

Red cheats a man out of house and home in poker.

San Fernado's Showboat

Clem's mind is still fixated on wooing Daisy June to marry him.

Clem Strike's Oil

Bolivar's girlfriend and mother invest in a salon for him to operate.

Bolivar's Beauty Salon

Garage owner George Appleby suspects a customer of being a maniacal killer.

Appleby's Garage

Kadiddlehopper becomes the talk of New York's art world with his masterpiece.

The Kadiddlehopper Mural

George Appleby and his wife win a new home, but it comes with one contingency.

Appleby Wins a House

When Professor Munson visits Freddie's shack and asks him to hide a revolutionary secret invention concealed within a mysterious black box, Freddie and his buddy Alfred become intertwined in an international spy ring.

Freddie and the Spies

Cauliflower McPugg ends up landing a new job conditioning Carlyle Wentworth, a film studio's top actor, for a prizefighting role in a new film, but McPugg's job takes on new meaning when he woos the actor's fiancee to date him instead.

Cauliflower Goes to Hollywood

It all began on a cold winter morning at the city dump when Freddie and Mugsy find an old canvas to cover up a hole in the wall, only to discover the canvas is a masterpiece worthy of placement in a museum.

The Original Da Vinci

Red Skelton has the honor of performing before the United Nations.

Laughter, the Universal Language

It is Christmas time, and Freddie finds himself alone, watching the world indulge in Christmas joy all around him, until a dash of Christmas luck finds Freddie in the form of an abandoned Raggedy Ann doll.

Freddie and the Yuletide Doll

Freddie the Freeloader is arrested for breaking into, and sleeping in, the local library. Perry Masonjar, an eccentric lawyer, happens to witness the event, and is hired on the spot by Freddie to try and get him off the hook.

The Red Skelton Show

About