season
20
Episode
1

20.01 The Magic Act

Air Date
09/14/1970
Characters
Dr. Ludwig Von Humperdoo, Gertrude and Heathcliffe
Description

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (Introduction); Jerry Lewis; Robin Wilson (sings For Once In My Life), Raymond Burr (cameo man in the bathroom mirror)

The Magic Act - Red Skelton's return to NBC starts as he channel hops through  TV blackout scenes (with Raymond Burr in a cameo). The main sketch introduces a new character, Dr. Ludwig Von Humperdoo, who plans to destroy the world with ants.

1: Monologue, jokes about new NBC TV shows, show rehearsals and dressing rooms. Gertrude and Heathcliffe NBC Peacock joke.

2: Blackout of W.C. Fields' Parole.

,3: Silent Spot, The Magic Act, has Jerry Lewis as a magician's assistant and Red as the world's greatest magician on a Vaudeville stage. All the tricks go wrong and the bit ends with Lewis stopping the music and action and talking to the audience announcing Red as the clown master and leaving the stage all to Red. - IMDb

Cast: Jim Connell (Oscar), Jack Riley (gunslinger), Mickey Manners (prison inmate), Carol Wayne (tour guide), Harriett Gibson (opera singer), Maurice Kelly (Jerry Lewis stand-in), Bob Duggan (gorilla), Sally Mason (go-go girl), Frank Delfino (little person), Art Gilmore: Extras - John Kenneth, Jay Loft-Lyon, James McLarty, Fletcher Allen, Gayle Anderson Allen, Shirley Dewane

Burgundy Street Singers - Jan Bunker, Jill Bunker, Jim Aiken, Dave Warner

Tape date: 8/8/1970

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