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The Red Skelton Show

Season 3

32 listed hours · 1951–1971 · NBC/CBS

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How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

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 3 of The Red Skelton Show (1951–1971) on NBC/CBS as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 20) — 32 listed hours, 1953-09-22–1954-07-21 from “McPugg's Last Fight” (S03E01) to “Deadeye From Mars” (S03E39). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S03E01 McPugg's Last Fight

    McPugg's Last Fight: named-character hour as mid-early landmark, physical comedy outlasting whatever fashion the guest list wore.

  1. S03E01 McPugg's Last Fight
  2. S03E03 The Nervous Tenor's Audition
  3. S03E04 The Hobo's Dilemma
  4. S03E05 Appleby The Dreamer
  5. S03E06 Freddie's Masquerade
  6. S03E07 The Marriage Broker
  7. S03E08 How To Be Happily Married
  8. S03E10 Flugelmeyer's Secret Formula (with Ann Southern)
  9. S03E11 Dr. Schlepper
  10. S03E12 It Happened at Station House
  11. S03E13 Skeltons at Christmas (with Georgia, Valentina and Richard Skelton)
  12. S03E14 The Great White Hunter (with John Wayne)
  13. S03E15 Accidents Will Happen (with Jackie Gleason)
  14. S03E16 Voyage To Paris
  15. S03E17 What Fathers Should Know
  16. S03E18 Clem The Campus Soda Jerk
  17. S03E19 The Train Trip
  18. S03E20 Deadeye and the Golden Nugget (with Ed Sullivan)
  19. S03E21 Captain Hook
  20. S03E22 Cave-Man Marriage
  21. S03E24 Uncle Sam Wants You
  22. S03E25 Sherlock Homes (with Melville Cooper)
  23. S03E27 King Putt (with Sheree North)
  24. S03E30 Clem In The South Pacific
  25. S03E32 The Referee
  26. S03E33 Prince Valiant (with Johnny Carson)
  27. S03E34 The Artist's Dilemma
  28. S03E35 Clem Goes To Mexico (with Lola Montes)
  29. S03E36 Mississippi Showboat
  30. S03E37 Freddie Goes to the Cleaners
  31. S03E38 Dial "B" for Brush (with Bela Lugosi)
  32. S03E39 Deadeye From Mars

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