The Red Skelton Show
Season 1
39 listed hours · 1951–1971 · NBC/CBS
From the desk
How this season is filed
The Red Skelton Show is pantomime pathos on a two-decade variety throne: Clem Kadiddlehopper, Freddie the Freeloader, and a closing blessing America treated like a ritual. Physical comedy that outlasted fashions. In 2026 it is the clown-with-a-tear master class, plus the benediction Good night and may God bless.
TV Flash files Season 1 of The Red Skelton Show (1951–1971) on NBC/CBS as the first listed season of 20 — 39 listed hours, 1951-09-30–1952-06-22 from “Premiere Show” (S01E01) to “Imaginary Dog” (S01E39). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Premiere Show
Premiere Show: pantomime pathos walks into a variety throne, clown-with-a-tear already the two-decade NBC contract.
- S01E01 Premiere Show
- S01E02 How to Wash a Baby
- S01E03 Dunking Doughnuts
- S01E04 Smokeless Sunday
- S01E05 Laying a Cornerstone
- S01E06 Willie and the Burglar
- S01E07 Cafe' Paree
- S01E08 G.I. McPugg
- S01E09 Clem and Married Life
- S01E10 Stairs
- S01E11 The Big Trial
- S01E12 Clean Politics
- S01E13 The Skeltons at Home
- S01E14 Learn To Dance In Ten Easy Lessons or One Hard One
- S01E15 The Bouncer (With Milton Berle)
- S01E16 McPugg The Babysitter (with Nina Goliner)
- S01E17 The Clean Fighter
- S01E18 Rock-A-Bye-Baby
- S01E19 San Fernando Red on Television
- S01E20 The Transcontinental
- S01E21 Disc Jockey
- S01E22 How to Make a Salad
- S01E23 Pasquale's Hotel
- S01E24 Napoleon
- S01E25 Dirty Deadeye
- S01E26 How To Eat Corn On The Cob
- S01E27 Willie The Barber
- S01E28 Clem's Travel Club
- S01E29 Mad Scientist
- S01E30 Helen of Troy
- S01E31 The Railroad Tower
- S01E32 It Takes All Kinds
- S01E33 Let's Talk About Mother
- S01E34 Telephone Trouble
- S01E35 The Railroad Station
- S01E36 Tornado Deadeye
- S01E37 Folding Boy
- S01E38 Let's Talk About Father
- S01E39 Imaginary Dog
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