The Red Skelton Show – Season 16
Episodes
How to Succeed in Loafing Without Really Trying
Eenie Meenie Minee Schmo
Chiseler on the Roof
Much Ado About Nagging
Mother Knows Pest
Land of Bilk and Money
It Happened One Nut
What Did You Do in the Dump, Daddy?
A Gyp Off the Old Block
The Best Money a Sheriff Can Buy
Jerk Be Nimble
Better Dead Than Wed
The Fastest Cuspidor in the West
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.
The Christmas Spirit
The Taming of the Screw-Loose
In One Head
Freddie’s Heroes
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.
The Fortune Crookie
Absence Makes the Hate Grow Fonder
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.
Sappiness Is Just a Thing Called Clem
Better Living Through Chiseling
A Bottle of Bumb
Not With My Dump You Won’t
Parlor, Bedroom & Wrath
Schnook of Araby
It’s a Treat to Beat a Cheat on the Mississippi Mud
A Bum for All Seasons
Next Time Try the Brain
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.