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A collection of Scripts for The Red Skelton Show

8 December 2021, 10:00 PST
Los Angeles

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A collection of Scripts for The Red Skelton Show

A large collection of scripts from the collection of screenwriter Hal Goodman, comprising approximately 40 scripts for The Red Skelton Show, mostly mimeographed typescript scripts held together with paper clips, some with minor annotations in Hal Goodman's hand, various dates 1953-1954, including first drafts and second revisions, with guests including Liberace, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney, Burt Lancaster, Rosemary Clooney, including the sketches Freddie's Birthday, Clem at the Beach, Skelton-Logan Sketch, Sinatra Spot, Skelton-Ladd Spot, and Skelton-Curtis Spot.
Provenance: The Estate of Hal Goodman.
All: 11 x 8.5 in.

Footnotes

Hal Goodman (1915-1997) was an Emmy® Award-winning comedic screenwriter and producer; as the LA Times obituary noted, "He put funny words in the mouths of entertainers ranging from a young Bob Hope to Johnny Carson..." He was nominated for eight Emmy® Awards and won one for The Flip Wilson Show. He began his career in radio and got his big break in television as a joke writer for Bob Hope after World War II. Along with his writing partner, Larry Klein, he wrote for Carol Burnett, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, and Steve Allen before spending the latter part of his career in the 1970s and 1980s writing for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, being responsible for many of Carson's most memorable sketches and monologues of that era. The Red Skelton Show had a long and successful run from 1951 to 1971, with Red Skelton becoming a true television institution, the show receiving three Emmy® Awards and Red Skelton receiving a Golden Globe® for the show in 1961.

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