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The Red Skelton Show: Season 19

29 episodes Premiered Sep 23, 1969 Updated Sep 27, 2026

Previously on The Red Skelton Show

Season 19 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Red Skelton Show Season 18.
⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season 19 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 19: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes

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S19·E1 Mytharc

Pop the Astronaut

Sep 23, 1969

S19·E2 Core

The Happening That Happened in Taxes

Sep 30, 1969

S19·E3 Core

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

Oct 7, 1969

S19·E4 Core

The Traveling Saleslady and the Farmer’s Son

Oct 14, 1969

S19·E5 Core

Willie Lump Lump’s Birthday

Oct 21, 1969

S19·E6 Core

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

Oct 28, 1969

S19·E7 Core

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

Nov 4, 1969

S19·E8 Core

Alaska or an Icicle Built for Two

Nov 11, 1969

S19·E9 Core

Singing Waiters, Hillbilly Songwriters

Nov 18, 1969

S19·E10 Core

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

Nov 25, 1969

S19·E11 Core

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

Dec 2, 1969

S19·E12 Core

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

Dec 9, 1969

S19·E13 Core

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

Dec 16, 1969

S19·E14 Core

Episode 14

Dec 23, 1969

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" hi

S19·E15 Core

Crime Doesn’t Pay But It’s Tax Free

Dec 30, 1969

S19·E16 Core

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

Jan 6, 1970

S19·E17 Core

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

Jan 13, 1970

S19·E18 Core

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

S19·E19 Core

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

Jan 27, 1970

S19·E20 Core

Is This Anyway to Ruin an Airline?

Feb 3, 1970

S19·E21 Core

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

Feb 10, 1970

S19·E22 Core

People Who Like People Are Cannibals

Feb 17, 1970

S19·E23 Core

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

Feb 24, 1970

S19·E24 Core

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

Mar 3, 1970

S19·E25 Core

Blood Is Thicker Than Water and Harder to Shave With

Mar 10, 1970

S19·E26 Core

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

S19·E27 Core

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

Mar 24, 1970

S19·E28 Mytharc

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

Mar 31, 1970

S19·E29 Mytharc

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

Apr 7, 1970