The Red Skelton Show
Season 4
16 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 4 of The Red Skelton Show (1951–1971) on NBC/CBS as a mid listed season (4; 4 of 20) — 16 listed hours, 1954-09-21–1955-03-08 from “Clem The Rookie (with Leo Durocher)” (S04E01) to “Look Magazine Movie Awards” (S04E25). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S04E01 Clem The Rookie (with Leo Durocher)
Clem The Rookie (with Leo Durocher) — Kadiddlehopper as season open, baseball guest as the blessing before the pantomime.
- S04E01 Clem The Rookie (with Leo Durocher)
- S04E03 What Goes Down, Must Come Up (with Ella Logan)
- S04E05 Romeo and Juliet
- S04E06 The Andrew Sisters (featuring Laverne And Maxine Andrews)
- S04E08 Clem Goes To College
- S04E10 A USO Thanksgiving (with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis)
- S04E11 Chicago Red in Las Vegas (with Lillian Roth)
- S04E12 The Art Show (with Abbe Lane & Sig Arno)
- S04E14 The Cop and the Anthem -The Unwanted Christmas Tree
- S04E16 Skelton Clears The Smog (with George Raft)
- S04E17 Skelton Goes Back To School (with Diana Lynn)
- S04E18 The Honeymooners (with Peter Lorre)
- S04E19 Love Thy Neighbor (with Mary McCarthy) & Trailer Park
- S04E20 Queen Of Mars (with Ruth Roman)
- S04E21 Red Goes To Barber College (with Charles Coburn)
- S04E25 Look Magazine Movie Awards
More from the 1950s.