Season 17, Episode 30: The Red Skelton Hour (TV Episode)

• Genre: Comedy
• Release Year: 1968
• Country: US
• Run Time: 60 minutes

Plot

Way back in 1939, Mickey Rooney urged his bosses at MGM to sign Red Skelton to a movie contract. This may be the reason Rooney appeared in so many of Red's TV programs of the 1950s and 1960s. In this episode from April 23, 1968, the Mick plays Julius Caesar, whose fatal rendezvous at the Senate is briefly forestalled by his slave Forsooth (Red). Singer Lana Cantrell performs "I'm Falling in Love Again" and "Bonnie and Clyde", while the Singers and Dancers team up for "Big Beautiful Doll". In the Silent Spot, a man (Red) squares off against his battleaxe mother-in-law. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide