1951-1952

TV Season 1

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TV Season 01

1951-1952

  • RATINGS: 04
  • Sponsor: Tide
  • Producer: Red Skelton
  • Director: John Gaunt
  • Writer: John Fenton Murray; Ben Freedman; Jack Douglas; Red Skelton
  • Announcer: 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.

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01.01 The Skylarks
AIR DATE
9/30/1951
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1: Opening Jokes.

2: Going to a Show.

3: Suit Routine.

4: The Skylarks “Hallelujah”.

5: Introduction to Characters.

6: Quick Change (Commercial).

7: Irish Tenor.

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01.02 How to Wash a Baby
AIR DATE
10/7/1951
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1: Opening Jokes (Pulling under Curtain, David Rose).

2: Woman Driver.

3: Bathing the Baby.

Skelton's Scrap Book "tub No. 1" (Tide ad)

4: Deadeye’s Dream or Dead Eye in 'The Mirage' (Bar room Dance)

Little Richard joke.

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Bob LeMond

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01.03 Dunking Doughnuts
AIR DATE
10/14/1951
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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

Guest Stars: Foy Willing; Riders of the Purple Sage

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Gil Perkins, Dick Ryan, Jerome Sheldon, Gene Darrell, Bob LeMond

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01.04 Smokeless Sunday
AIR DATE
10/21/1951
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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

Guest Stars: Taylor Maids

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Gil Perkins, Phil Arnold, Mara Lynn, Shirley Mitchell, Dick Ryan, Bob LeMond; “Mr. Troubles”

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01.05 Laying a Cornerstone
AIR DATE
10/28/1951
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1: Opening Jokes.

2: Theatre Seat Routine.

3: Atomic Crunchies.

4: Weatherman.

5: Mountain Washing (Commercial).

Laying the Cornerstone

Guest Stars: Beverly Hudson (sings "On the Sunny Side of the Street"), Dagmar (cameo)

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Phil Arnold, Dick Ryan, David Rose, Bob LeMond

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01.06 Willie and the Burglar
AIR DATE
11/4/1951
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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

Guest Stars: The Pepperettes

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Shirley Mitchell, Gil Perkins, Bob LeMond

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01.07 Cafe Paree
AIR DATE
11/11/1951
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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

Guest Stars: Sportsmen Quartet

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Gil Perkins, Shirley Mitchell, David Rose, Phil Arnold, Mara Lynn, Bob LeMond

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01.08 G.I. McPugg
AIR DATE
11/18/1951
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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

Guest Stars: The Modernaires

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Gil Perkins, Shirley Mitchell, David Rose, Dick Ryan, Bob LeMond

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01.09 Clem and Married Life
AIR DATE
11/25/1951
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1: Junior Jokes.

2: Prize Fighter (Pantomime).

3: Three Stages of Married Life.

4: Prison Scene (Commercial).

5: Swan Lake Ballet

Guest Star: Nana Gollner, Bob Hope (cameo)

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Peter Leeds, Pat McGeehan, Benny Rubin, Bob LeMond

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01.10 Stairs
AIR DATE
12/2/1951
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1: Opening Jokes. Truman joke [1], talks about Santa Claus Lane Parade, talking to Santa Claus (Junior). Duck named Gertrude. 2: Different People Going Up Stairs. 3: Radio Sound Effects. 4: McPugg Locker Room. 5: Used Car Dealer (Clem)

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01.11 The Big Trial
AIR DATE
12/9/1951
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Different People Walking. 3: English Courtroom (Commercial). 4: The Big Card Game

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01.12 Clean Politics
AIR DATE
12/16/1951
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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

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01.13 The Skeltons at Home
AIR DATE
12/23/1951
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1: Opening Jokes. Did not know he was on the air and did warm-up jokes. Richard jokes (Dog gone). Thanks, Television Guide for Gold Medal. 2: Live Commercial (Red using Tide to take off make-up). 3: Skeltons At Home (Red Skelton characters visit near Christmas). Clem mimes "A Half Wit playing with a Feather". David Rose plays "Our Waltz".

Guest Stars: Georgia Skelton, Valentina, Richard Skelton, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Fowler, Bo Roos, Mr. and Mrs. David Rose, Robert Mitchell Boy Choir(?)

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01.14 Learn To Dance in Ten Easy Lessons or One Hard One
AIR DATE
12/30/1951
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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

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01.15 The Bouncer
AIR DATE
1/6/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Cavalcade of Sports (Weepy). 3: The Bouncer (McPugg) – Trenier Twins-GO-GO-GO. 4: Golf Lesson (Commercial). 5: Corpus Delicti

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01.16 McPugg the Babysitter
AIR DATE
1/13/1952
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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

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01.17 Clean Fighter
AIR DATE
1/20/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Frying Eggs (Willie Lump-Lump). 3: Drugstore Routine. 4: The Clean Fighter (live Commercial). 5: Parking and Sparking

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01.18 Rock-a-Bye Baby
AIR DATE
1/27/1952
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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

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01.19 San Fernando Red on Television
AIR DATE
2/3/1952
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1: Opening Jokes (Junior Jokes). 2: Parking Lot Attendant. 3: The Music Master Skit (Mendex). 4: Ski Lodge (Commercial). 5: San Fernando Red Banquet

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01.20 The Transcontinental
AIR DATE
2/10/1952
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1: Camera Explosion Opening Jokes. 2: Transcontinental. 3: It’s Magic (J. Newton Numbskull). 4: Streets of Laredo (Deadeye-Commercial. 5: Topsy-Turvy

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01.21 The Disc Jockey
AIR DATE
2/17/1952
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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

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01.22 How to Make a Salad
AIR DATE
2/24/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Different People Watching Boxing Match. 3: Lord Beaverhead. 4: Pedestrian Polo (Commercial). 5: Making A Salad

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01.23 Pasquale's Hotel
AIR DATE
3/3/1952
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1: Lecture on Human Anatomy (Clem). 2: Rivero Quintet. 3: Hotel Room (Commercial). 4: On The House

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01.24 Napoleon
AIR DATE
3/9/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: The Pest. 3: Delta Rhythm Boys. 4: Napoleon (Commercial). 5: Topsy-Turvy (Repeat)

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01.25 Dirty Deadeye
AIR DATE
3/16/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Travelogue (Clem). 3: Shepard Brothers (Swiss Belle Ringers). 4: Dirty Deadeye (Commercial). 5: Lost Patrol

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01.26 How to Eat Corn on the Cob
AIR DATE
3/23/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Corn Eating Routine. 3: Laundromat (McPugg Commercial). 4: Debt of a Salesman

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01.27 Willie the Barber
AIR DATE
3/30/1952
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1: Opening Jokes (Politics). 2: Bon Bons (Pantomime). 3: Willie the Barber (Commercial). 4: Quiz the Candidate

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01.28 Clem's Travel Club
AIR DATE
4/6/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Travel Bureau (Clem). 3: The Great Stagecoach Robbery (Deadeye). 4: Tavel Bureau

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01.29 Mad Scientist
AIR DATE
4/13/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Cauliflower Health Building Routine (McPugg). 3: New Orleans Dock (San Fernando Commercial) 4: The Mad Scientist

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01.30 Helen of Troy
AIR DATE
4/20/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. 2: Helen of Troy (Commercial). 3: Prosper or Pay the Penalty

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01.31 The Railroad Tower
AIR DATE
4/27/1952
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Guest Stars: Josef Marais and Miranda

1: Opening Jokes (Richard Jokes). 2: Joseph Marais and Miranda (Songs). 3: Railroad Tower (Clem Commercial). 4: Movietime (The Little Italian)

Cast: Shirley Mitchell, Sam Martinella, Benny Rubin, Lucille Knoch, Gil Perkins, Bob LeMond

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01.32 It Takes All Kinds (Live in San Francisco)
AIR DATE
5/4/1952
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Guest Stars: Kam Tong

1: Opening Jokes.

2: It Takes All Kinds (Interview).

3: Chinese Laundry.

4: Guzzler’s Gin

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Benny Rubin, Bob Lemond

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01.33 Let's Talk About Mother
AIR DATE
5/11/1952
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Guest Stars: Ida Mae Soderstrom (Red's mother), Gladys Davis (Red's mother-in-law)

1: Opening Jokes. 2: Imitation of Mixing A Salad. 3: Weepy the Clerk (Commercial). 4: Mother’s Day

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Benny Rubin, Gil Perkins, Edmund Penney, Raymond Largay, Jane Darwell, Bob LeMond

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01.34 Telephone Trouble
AIR DATE
5/18/1952
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Guest Stars: Cobina Wright

1: Opening Jokes (Warner Brothers Fire).

2: Telephone Trouble.

3: Absent-Minder Announcer.

4: Dinner At Cobina Wright’s

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Benny Rubin, Gil Perkins, Bob LeMond

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01.35 The Railroad Station
AIR DATE
5/25/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. College Boys, Richard joke, McPugg, Seagulls (Jet plane)

2: The Hic-cup Cure. (Clem pitches a book.)

3: Tide Box Commercial (Dirty people go in a box and come out clean.)

4: The Railroad Station (Willie Lump-Lump)

Cast: Benny Rubin; Lucille Knoch; Gil Perkins; Frank Kreig

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01.36 Tornado Deadeye
AIR DATE
6/1/1952
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Guest Stars: Leonard Rose Los Angeles County Supervisor (Red nominated county's Father-of-the-Year)

1: Opening Jokes. Secretary, Richard Joke, Seagulls,

2: Great Saloon Robbery (Deadeye).

3: Live Commercial in Deadeye skit

Cast: Benny Rubin, Gil Perkins, Lucille Knoch, Michael Ross, Sam Martinella, Shirley Mitchell, Bob LeMond

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01.37 Folding Boy
AIR DATE
6/8/1952
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1: David Rose Opening.

2: Opening Jokes. Old car. Russia. Potatoes. Richard joke. Spelling.

3: Different People Getting Into Bed.

4: The Ski Lodge (Commercial). Weepy in the mountains.

5: Folding Boy

Cast: David Rose, Raymond Largay, Sam Martinella, Benny Rubin, Frank Kreig, Gil Perkins, Michael Ross, Lucille Knoch, Edmund Penney, Bob LeMond

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01.38 Let's Talk About Father
AIR DATE
6/15/1952
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Let's Talk About Father - mentions Vincennes

1: Opening Jokes (2 Seagulls Gertrude and Ralph).

2: Let's Talk About Father (Delivery Room Commercial).

3: Living Room and Bedroom

Cast: 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

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01.39 Imaginary Dog
AIR DATE
6/22/1952
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1: Opening Jokes. Seagulls (Gertrude and Ralph), Richard jokes.

2: Genius at Work (Commercial).

3: Imaginary Dog (Film). Willie has an invisible dog.

4: Irish Tenor

Cast: Lucille Knoch, Benny Rubin, Bob LeMond, Gil Perkins

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