Season 19

1969–1970

Sep 23, 1969 · 25m

Sketch: Red plays Pop, a stowaway janitor on a Jupiter-bound spaceship commanded by astronaut Peter Graves. Music: Iron Butterfly performs "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and "Soul Experience." The Silent Spot: 'The Silent Movie Kop" - Skelton plays a silent movie cop frantically chasing a bank robber.

E2. The Happening That Happened in Taxes

Sep 30, 1969 · 25m

E3. You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man – But You Can Try

Oct 7, 1969 · 25m

E4. The Traveling Saleslady and the Farmer’s Son

Oct 14, 1969 · 25m

E5. Willie Lump Lump’s Birthday

Oct 21, 1969 · 25m

E6. John Wayne’s 40th Anniversary or Hominy and True Grits

Oct 28, 1969 · 25m

(John Wayne's 40th Anniversary) Guest John Wayne and Red do a skit about different sorts of autograph hunters. Sketch: Sheriff Deadeye faces Rooster Cogburn in a saloon duel. The Silent Spot: "The Happy Irish Pub", sees Red hired as a jig-dancing, furniture-smashing bouncer.

E7. The Emergency Case or See Your Doctor Once a Year Even If It Kills You

Nov 4, 1969 · 25m

E8. Alaska or an Icicle Built for Two

Nov 11, 1969 · 25m

E9. Singing Waiters, Hillbilly Songwriters

Nov 18, 1969 · 25m

E10. There’s One Thing Money Won’t Buy and Someday We’ll Find Out What It Is

Nov 25, 1969 · 25m

E11. It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost – Much Better

Dec 2, 1969 · 25m

E12. He Wanted to Be a Square Shooter But He Found That his Barrel was Round

Dec 9, 1969 · 25m

E13. The Son of Oliver Twist or Junior Is Just a Little Dickens

Dec 16, 1969 · 25m

E14. Crime Doesn't Pay But It's Tax Free

Dec 23, 1969 · 25m

Barbara Bain plays a journalist who is hired by a newspaper to locate and expose the infamous San Fernando Red, operating at a nearby carnival. In "The Silent Spot," Red "helps" his wife prepare for a New Year's eve party and causes nothing but trouble.

E15. Crime Doesn’t Pay But It’s Tax Free

Dec 30, 1969 · 25m

E16. You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country If You Promise Not to Bring Him Back

Jan 6, 1970 · 25m

E17. If Marriages Are Made in Heaven, Why Do They Call It Heaven?

Jan 13, 1970 · 25m

E18. There’s No Business Like Show Business, But When There’s No Business, Show Business Goes Out of Business Just Like Any Other Business

Jan 20, 1970 · 25m

E19. Charity Begins at Home, But Nowadays, Who Can Afford a Home?

Jan 27, 1970 · 25m

E20. Is This Anyway to Ruin an Airline?

Feb 3, 1970 · 25m

E21. When East Meets West, You’ve Sure Got a Skinny Country

Feb 10, 1970 · 25m

E22. People Who Like People Are Cannibals

Feb 17, 1970 · 25m

E23. The Three Musketeers Ride Again, Those Ding-Dong Daddies from Dumas

Feb 24, 1970 · 25m

E24. Bill Bailey Must Have Been Married, That’s Why He Never Came Home

Mar 3, 1970 · 25m

E25. Blood Is Thicker Than Water and Harder to Shave With

Mar 10, 1970 · 25m

E26. He Died with His Boots on Cause He Had Cold Feet to Start or He Died with His Boots Off, That’s Why He Stubbed His Toe

Mar 17, 1970 · 25m

E27. San Fernando’s Spy School or How to Make a Possible Mission Impossible

Mar 24, 1970 · 25m

E28. Be It Ever So Crumbled, There Is No Place Like Home

Mar 31, 1970 · 25m

Red and guest Cesar Romero appear as Bolivar Shagnasty and Butch, a pair of jailed convicts who effect an impromptu prison escape. In another sketch, Willie Lump Lump (Red) is a drunk who agrees to watch Clint Howard's juice stand, but ends up spiking the lemonade. Lastly, in "the Silent Spot," Red is Pops, a school crossing guard who is depressed when it seems no one cares that he is retiring.

E29. Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make: So They Added Iron Bars

Apr 7, 1970