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The Red Skelton Show

Season 16 · 32 episodes · Sep 13, 1966

  1. Episode 1

    How to Succeed in Loafing Without Really Trying

    Sep 13, 1966

  2. Episode 2

    Eenie Meenie Minee Schmo

    Sep 20, 1966

  3. Episode 3

    Chiseler on the Roof

    Sep 27, 1966

  4. Episode 4

    Much Ado About Nagging

    Oct 4, 1966

  5. Episode 5

    Mother Knows Pest

    Oct 11, 1966

  6. Episode 6

    Land of Bilk and Money

    Oct 18, 1966

  7. Episode 7

    It Happened One Nut

    Oct 25, 1966

  8. Episode 8

    What Did You Do in the Dump, Daddy?

    Nov 1, 1966

  9. Episode 9

    A Gyp Off the Old Block

    Nov 15, 1966

  10. Episode 10

    The Best Money a Sheriff Can Buy

    Nov 22, 1966

  11. Episode 11

    Jerk Be Nimble

    Nov 29, 1966

  12. Episode 12

    Better Dead Than Wed

    Dec 6, 1966

  13. Episode 13

    The Fastest Cuspidor in the West

    Dec 13, 1966

    Sheriff Deadeye is determined to get the lead role in a motion picture being made in town - even to the extent of wearing a corset to appear thinner. However, he finds he has been beaten out by Nathan Nothing (guest Robert Goulet), who is younger and more handsome. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a crotchety old man who hates children, but finds he has been promoted to a store's toy department during the Christmas rush.

  14. Episode 14

    The Christmas Spirit

    Dec 20, 1966

  15. Episode 15

    The Taming of the Screw-Loose

    Dec 27, 1966

  16. Episode 16

    In One Head

    Jan 3, 1967

  17. Episode 17

    Freddie’s Heroes

    Jan 10, 1967

    In this WW II parody, the stars of "Hogan's Heroes" (Bob Crane and John Banner) appear as their characters of Col. Hogan and Sgt. Schultz. Red (as Freddie the Freeloader) is assigned to assist in their escape from Stalag 13. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays a bungling 19th century suitor who must meet his girlfriend's parents.

  18. Episode 18

    The Fortune Crookie

    Jan 17, 1967

  19. Episode 19

    Absence Makes the Hate Grow Fonder

    Jan 24, 1967

    George Appleby accompanies his abusive wife, Clara (guest Eve Arden), on a southwestern vacation, but the couple splits in the process. They go their separate ways, but end up staying in the same hotel room, unbeknownst to each other. In "The Silent Spot," Red plays an old man whose bumbling attempts to run a gas station end in failure.

  20. Episode 20

    Sappiness Is Just a Thing Called Clem

    Jan 31, 1967

  21. Episode 21

    Better Living Through Chiseling

    Feb 7, 1967

  22. Episode 22

    A Bottle of Bumb

    Feb 14, 1967

  23. Episode 23

    Not With My Dump You Won’t

    Feb 28, 1967

  24. Episode 24

    Parlor, Bedroom & Wrath

    Mar 7, 1967

  25. Episode 25

    Schnook of Araby

    Mar 14, 1967

  26. Episode 26

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

    Mar 21, 1967

  27. Episode 27

    A Bum for All Seasons

    Mar 28, 1967

  28. Episode 28

    Next Time Try the Brain

    Apr 4, 1967

    Clem Kadiddlehopper meets down on his luck Loser Lumpkin (guest Tennessee Ernie Ford), a once-great champion chicken-plucker who was in the Olympics. Observing that Clem has the fingers for it, Lumpkin takes him to the Olympics to break the world chicken plucking record. In "The Silent Spot," it's the day after Christmas and Red plays a man dealing with his contentious wife, who demands he take down the tree and the decorations.

  29. Episode 29

    That Junk Built

    Apr 18, 1967

  30. Episode 30

    Loused in Space

    Apr 25, 1967

  31. Episode 31

    Once Upon a Dunce

    May 2, 1967

  32. Episode 32

    The Nag and I

    May 9, 1967