TV Red Skelton Show Episode Guide Season 01 1951-1952

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Sponsor: Tide

Producer: Red Skelton

Director: John Gaunt

Writer: John Fenton Murray; Ben Freedman; Jack Douglas; Red Skelton

Annoucer: Bob Lamond

Music Director: David Rose and His Orchestra

Settings: Ken MacClelland

Technical Director: William L. States

Assistant Director: Ed Hillie

Audio Engineer: Art Brearley

Format: Greets audience, some jokes (Junior jokes as Little Richard) then goes does a bit as one of his characters/Musical number. Sometimes the musical number are part of the character skit. /Skelton’s Film Scrapbook. Tide skit/Skelton’s Scrapbook. Another character/Ends with being pulled under the curtain.

No. in series	Airdate	Title
01	9/30/1951	The Skylarks Guest The Skylarks Character Deadeye, Junior; San Fernando Red; Cauliflower McPugg Synopsis Cold opening Monologue Opening Jollies Acts “Going to a Show” Introduction of characters (Deadeye; Junior; San Fernando Red; McPugg) “Suit Routine” Quick Change (Tide) (re-broadcast “How to Eat Corn”) Irish Tenor¹ Silent Spot Music number The Sklylarks “Hallelujah!” Cast: Lucy Knoch Video release: Notes: TV Digest, 09/29/1951 “Heading for Television” Photos
02	10/7/1951	How to Wash a Baby Guest Character Deadeye Synopsis Cold opening Monologue Last week pulled under curtain. David Rose. Acts Woman Driver Bathing the Baby Deadeye’s Dream (Barroom Dance) Tub #1 (Tide ad) Silent Spot Music number Cast: Video release: Notes: IHS BV 3814
03	10/14/1951	Dunking Doughnuts 1: Opening Jokes. 2: “Foggy Foggy Dew”. 3: Sewing Routine (Pantomime). 4: Dunking Doughnuts. 5: “Success hasn’t Mad a Swellhead of Me” 6: “The Last Half” (Commercial). 7: Poet & Peasant Overture Foy Willing; Riders of the Purple Sage Lucille Knoch; Gil Perkins; Dick Ryan; Jerome Sheldon; Gene Darrell
04	10/21/1951	Smokeless Sunday 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Checker Game Trouble. 3: Big Cigarette Hunt . 4: Taylor Maids “That’s the Man For Me”. 5: Execution (Commercial). 6: The American Dance Lump Lump Taylor Maids Lucille Knoch; Gil Perkins; Phil Arnold; Mara Lynn; “Mr. Troubles”
05	10/28/1951	Laying a Cornerstone 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Theatre Seat Routine. 3: Atomic Crunchies. 4: Weatherman. 5: Mountain Washing (Commercial). Laying the Cornerstone Clem; San Fernando Red
06	11/4/1951	Willie and the Burglar 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Real Estate Salesman “Tennessee Waltz”. 3: The Pepperettes “I Didn’t Know the Gun was Loaded”. 4: Artists and Models (Commercial). 5: Burglar Skit Clem; Lump Lump The Pepperettes Lucille Knoch; Gil Perkins; Shirley Mitchell
07	11/11/1951	Care Paree 1: Opening Jokes. 2: “Mocking Bird Hill” . 3: Sportsmen Quartet “Let’s Do it Again”. 4: Paris Café (Commercial). 5: If Adults Acted Like Kids Clem, McPugg, SF Red Sportsmen Quartet
08	11/18/1951	G.I. McPugg 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Toothpaste Salesman . 3: Drugstore Skit. 4: G. I. McPugg (Commercial). 5: The Modernaires “The Customer is Always Right”. 6: The Private Eye Junior; Clem; McPugg; Lump Lump The Modernaires
09	11/25/1951	Clem and Married Life 1: Junior Jokes. 2: Prize Fighter (Pantomime). 3: Three Stages of Married Life. 4: Prison Scene (Commercial). 5: Swan Lake Ballet Clem; Junior Bob Hope (cameo) ; Nana Gollner
10	12/2/1951	Stairs 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Different People Going Up Stairs. 3: Radio Sound Effects. 4: McPugg Locker Room. 5: Used Car Dealer McPugg; Clem Ray Erlenborn
11	12/9/1951	The Big Trial 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Different People Walking. 3: English Courtroom (Commercial). 4: The Big Card Game Deadeye Foy Willing; Riders of the Purple Sage Lucille Knoch; Gil Perkins; Dick Ryan; Jerome Sheldon; Gene Darrell
12	12/16/1951	Clean Politics 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Selling Christmas Trees (Clem). 3: The Four Knights (I Wanna Say Hello / You Broke Your Promise with Red). 4: Clean Politics (Commercial). 5: Christmas Tree Decorator (Willie Lump-Lump)
13	12/23/1951	The Skeltons at Home 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Live Commercial (Red using Tide to take off make-up). 3: Skeltons At Home Georgia Skelton; Valentina Skelton; Richard Skelton
14	12/30/1951	Learn To Dance in Ten Easy Lessons or One Hard One 1: Opening Jokes (California Sunshine). 2: A Drunk Frying Eggs. 3: Invitation to Skeltons First Dance. 4: How Women Get Up. 5: Desert Island (Commercial). 6: Dancing School (Clem)
15	1/6/1952	The Bouncer 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Cavalcade of Sports (Weepy). 3: The Bouncer (McPugg) – Trenier Twins-GO-GO-GO. 4: Golf Lesson (Commercial). 5: Corpus Delicti Milton Berle ; The Treniers
16	1/13/1952	McPugg the Babysitter 1: Opening Jokes (Little Red Riding Hood). 2: Smoothola Shave Cream (Clem). 3: Baby Sitter (McPugg). 4: Department Store (Commercial). 5: Spectre of the Rose Nana Gollner Lucille Knoch; Gill Perkins; David Stollery; Edmond Penny; Jerome Sheldon; Marian Richmond
17	1/20/1952	Clean Fighter 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Frying Eggs (Willie Lump-Lump). 3: Drugstore Routine. 4: The Clean Fighter (live Commercial). 5: Parking and Sparking
18	1/27/1952	Rock-a-Bye Baby 1: Shortest Commercial in Television. 2: Opening Jokes. 3: Pantomimes (Speakers and Movie Heroes Dying). 4: The Skylarks (St. Louis Blues). 5: Rockabye Commercial. 6: Embarrassing Moments
19	2/3/1952	San Fernando Red on Television 1: Opening Jokes (Junior Jokes). 2: Parking Lot Attendant. 3: The Music Master Skit (Mendex). 4: Ski Lodge (Commercial). 5: San Fernando Red Banquet
20	2/10/1952	The Transcontinental 1: Camera Explosion Opening Jokes. 2: Transcontinental. 3: It’s Magic (J. Newton Numbskull). 4: Streets of Laredo (Deadeye-Commercial. 5: Topsy-Turvy (Willie Lump-Lump)
21	2/17/1952	The Disc Jockey 1: Longest Commercial in Television (Open joke). 2: Catching the Bus. 3: Live Commercial. 4: Holiday For Strings. 5: Different People At Bars. 6: The Disc Jockey
22	2/24/1952	How to Make a Salad 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Different People Watching Boxing Match. 3: Lord Beaverhead. 4: Pedestrian Polo (Commercial). 5: Making A Salad (Willie Lump-Lump) Lucille Knoch; Gil Perkins; Jack Fisher; Don DeLeo; Charles Post; Rocky Carr; Sam
23	3/3/1952	Pasquale's Hotel 1: Lecture on Human Anatomy (Clem). 2: Rivero Quintet. 3: Hotel Room (Commercial). 4: On The House
24	3/9/1952	Napoleon 1: Opening Jokes. 2: The Pest. 3: Delta Rhythm Boys. 4: Napoleon (Commercial). 5: Topsy-Turvy (Repeat)
25	3/16/1952	Dirty Deadeye 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Travelogue (Clem). 3: Shepard Brothers (Swiss Belle Ringers). 4: Dirty Deadeye (Commercial). 5: Lost Patrol (McPugg)
26	3/23/1952	How to Eat Corn on the Cob 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Corn Eating Routine. 3: Laundromat (McPugg Commercial). 4: Debt of a Salesman
27	3/30/1952	Willie the Barber 1: Opening Jokes (Politics). 2: Bon Bons (Pantomime). 3: Willie the Barber (Commercial). 4: Quiz the Candidate (San Fernando Red)
28	4/6/1952	Clem's Travel Club 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Travel Bureau (Clem). 3: The Great Stagecoach Robbery (Deadeye). 4: Tavel Bureau (switchback)
29	4/13/1952	Mad Scientist 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Cauliflower Health Building Routine (McPugg). 3: New Orleans Dock (San Fernando Commercial) 4: The Mad Scientist
30	4/20/1952	Helen of Troy 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Helen of Troy (Commercial). 3: Prosper or Pay the Penalty
31	4/27/1952	The Railroad Tower 1: Opening Jokes (Junior Jokes). 2: Joseph Marais and Miranda (Songs). 3: Railroad Tower (Clem Commercial). 4: Movietime (The Little Italian)
32	5/4/1952	It Takes All Kinds (Live in San Francisco) 1: Opening Jokes. 2: It Takes All Kinds (Interview). 3: Chinese Laundry. 4: Guzzler’s Gin Benny Rubin, Kam Tong
33	5/11/1952	Let's Talk About Mother 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Imitation of Mixing A Salad. 3: Weepy the Clerk (Commercial). 4: Mother’s Day
34	5/18/1952	Telephone Trouble 1: Opening Jokes (Warner Brothers Fire). 2: Telephone Trouble. 3: Absent-Minder Announcer. 4: Dinner At Cobina Wright’s (Clem)
35	5/25/1952	The Railroad Station 1: Opening Jokes (College Boys). 2: Hiccups. 3: Tide Box Commercial (Twins). 4: Grand Central Station (Willie Lump-Lump) Benny Rubin; Lucille Knoch; Gil Perkins; Frank Kreig
36	6/1/1952	Tornado Deadeye 1: Opening Jokes. 2: Great Saloon Robbery (Deadeye). 3: Live Commercial in Deadeye skit
37	6/8/1952	Folding Boy 1: Dave Rose Opening. 2: Opening Jokes. 3: Different People Getting Into Bed. 4: The Ski Lodge (Commercial). 5: Foldin’ Boy (McPugg)
38	6/15/1952	Let's Talk About Father 1: Opening Jokes (Sea gulls). 2: Let’s Talk About Father (Delivery Room Commercial). 3: Living Room and Bedroom Raymond Largay – Father; Liz Slifer – Mother; Ed Penney – Expectant Father; Lucille Knoch – Lucy, Teenage Daughter; Joby Baker – Teenage Son; Robert Easton – Irwin; Gil Perkins – Hospital Janitor
39	6/22/1952	Imaginary Dog 1: Opening Jokes (Gil, Poles). 2: Genius at Work (Commerical). 3: Imaginary Dog (Film). 4: Irish Tenor
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