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05.01 The Super Chef
AIR DATE
9/27/1955
1: Red goes to New York by train and tangles with the bus driver (Ed Sullivan) in New York
GS: Ed Sullivan
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05.02 Clem at World Series
AIR DATE
10/4/1955
1: Clem as Washington State Apple Picker, pitches World Series game
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05.03 New York Tour
AIR DATE
10/11/1955
1. Bolivar Shagnasty visits his girl, Gert, proposes and takes her to quiz show to win money
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05.04 Hot Lips Morgan
AIR DATE
10/18/1955
1: Hot Lips Morgan – New Orleans in the Twenties. Poet and Peasant Overture.
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05.06 Halloween Show
AIR DATE
11/1/1955
1: Willie Lump-Lump and the Topsy-Turvy Bedroom
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05.07 The Sweetie of Tahiti
AIR DATE
11/8/1955
1: Shore Leave with Snorkel and Luana
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05.08 TV vs. the Electric Guitar
AIR DATE
11/15/1955
1: Kentucky Clem, the hillbilly, makes his operatic debut
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05.09 Fish Peddler’s Thanksgiving
AIR DATE
11/22/1955
1: Thanksgiving with the Kellys and the Winterbrooks and Bolivar Shagnasty
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05.10 Phantom of the Ballet
AIR DATE
11/29/1955
1: Skelton plays detective and tries to solve murders at Ballet Theater
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05.11 Deadeye vs. the Lone Ranger
AIR DATE
12/6/1955
1: Skelton goes Christmas Shopping, has trouble making call from phone booth and guests with Kit Carson on children’s show
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Pre-empted by See it Now “Grandma Moses”
AIR DATE
12/13/1955
Portraits of "Two American Originals," jazz great Louis Armstrong and painter Anna Mary Robinson (Grandma Moses). Armstrong is interviewed in Paris during his world tour and she is interviewed at her home in New York State. The segment with Grandma Moses was the program's first segment in color. - IMDb
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05.12 The Cop and the Anthem
AIR DATE
12/20/1955
1: Cop and the Anthem starring Freddie the Freeloader
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05.13 Cookie and Zsa Zsa Gabor
AIR DATE
12/27/1955
1: Sailor Red tries to date famous movie star so his ship, The Mighty O, can win bet from rival
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05.15 George Resists Girls
AIR DATE
1/10/1956
1: George Appleby dreams he is Casanova, looking for 101 ways to prepare soup
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05.16 The Sculpture Show
AIR DATE
1/17/1956
1: Clem dreams he becomes a famous sculptor, setting a new trend in modern sculpturing
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05.17 Freddie on a Luxury Liner or Bum Overboard
AIR DATE
1/24/1956
1: Ship Story. Freddie the Freeloader stows away on a luxury liner and becomes the subject of a bet between Englishmen
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05.18 Lamb to Lion
AIR DATE
1/31/1956
1: George Appleby, the bank teller, turns into Public Enemy #1 and tries to rob his own bank after being hypnotised
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05.19 The Election Show
AIR DATE
2/7/1956
1: San Fernando Red, the mayor, absconds with city funds, burns down the City Hall and escapes to South America. Clem is put in his place by a bigtime gambler, but Clem gets into trouble being too honest.
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05.20 Valentine’s Day Double Date
AIR DATE
2/14/1956
1: Bolivar Shagnasty fixes his girlfriend’s cousin up with a blind date who is so shy that Bolivar tries to help him and gets in trouble with her big, tough boyfriend.
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05.21 Salesman vs. Mad Scientist or A Man is Ten Feet Tall
AIR DATE
2/21/1956
1: Clem, the vacuum cleaner salesman, becomes the guinea pig for a fantastic experiment
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05.22 The Bank Robber
AIR DATE
2/28/1956
1: George Appleby, keeping house and take care of the baby while his wife works, gets an unwelcome house guest who is hiding from the police
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05.23 Cookie Returns or Cookie in Korea
AIR DATE
3/6/1956
1: The Korean Baby. Red, with his buddy, Snorkel, tries to smuggle a baby to the U.S. via his ship, The Mighty O, for adoption
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05.24 Freddie vs. the Freeway
AIR DATE
3/20/1956
1. The Highway Commission. Freddie the Freeloader will not sell his little plot of ground at the dump to the City to make room for a freeway. He takes his case to court and is helped by two of his tramp friends.
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05.25 Clem’s Feud
AIR DATE
3/27/1956
1: Clem tries to elope with the daughter of a family which has long been an enemy of his own and stirs up an old feud
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05.26 Dance Marathon
AIR DATE
4/3/1956
1: The Niteclub. Red and the owner of the band he works in plan a dance marathon to try and pay for the debts they unknowingly assumed when they bought the niteclub. They try to fix it so Red will win
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05.27 The Convention
AIR DATE
4/10/1956
1: George Appleby goes to a political convention in Chicago, gets drunk on ginger ale because he thinks he is seeing double when identical twins play a joke on him
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05.28 Stages of Evolution
AIR DATE
4/17/1956
1: The Hypnotist. Bolivar Shagnasty becomes the guinea pig for a hypnotic experiment and is taken back into other lives he has lived
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05.29 Robin Hood
AIR DATE
4/24/1956
1: Robin Hood (Red) with the help of his merry men tries to save Maid Marian from the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and gets involved in an archery contest with him
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05.30 Hollywood Plumber
AIR DATE
5/1/1956
1: Bolivar Shagnasty, the plumber, is discovered and made the star of a picture, but, each time it is about to be completed, the script is changed to a new story. It is finally changed to the story of a plumber and told he cannot act the part properly
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05.31 Baker Man
AIR DATE
5/8/1956
1: Clem, the baker, unknowingly gets involved with some spies who have hidden a secret atomic reactor in some rolls he has baked for a wedding reception
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05.32 Desert Island
AIR DATE
5/15/1956
1: Red and his buddy Snorkel fall of their ship, The Mighty O, and get marooned on a desert island. They mistake a man from a nearby movie colony, dressed as a gorilla, as the real thing
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05.33 Stock Wizard
AIR DATE
5/22/1956
1: Freddie the Freeloader is able to predict what is going to happen on the stock market. A group of stock brokers give him a penthouse to live in, in return for the predictions. They mistake one of his tips and complications result
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05.34 Public Pigeon
AIR DATE
5/29/1956
1: Rusty Morgan, a waiter, loses his job at a lunch counter and is offered a job working for a gang disguised as a sweat old lady and her three loving sons who take out an insurance policy on him and then try to create a fatal accident for him
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05.35 Pirate Show
AIR DATE
6/5/1956
1: Red, as Captain Kidd, shanghais three men for his crew and, with their help, succeeds in outsmarting Capt. Hook and his men, capturing their treasures. Kidd then double-crosses his own men but forgets one important thing that proves fatal to him
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05.36 The Picnic
AIR DATE
6/12/1956
1: Bolivar Shagnasty gets a job in a factory by flirting with the pretty personnel director but, in order to keep his job, he must promise to take the daughter of each of his two bosses to the company picnic. He gets into trouble trying to be a date to each of the daughters and the personnel director, none of the three knowing about the others
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05.37 County Fair or Minister of Agriculture
AIR DATE
6/19/1956
1: Clem has a secret formula for making things grow to very large proportions, which is shown at the county fair. The queen of Lavonia visiting this country is impressed and makes Clem Minister of Agriculture for her starving country. Two of her ambassadors who plan to seize the throne bring Clem to the torture chamber to try and make him tell what his secret formula is. Some surprising results occur.
