May 16 2009
Deadeye and the Magician - The Red Skelton Show, Season 10, Episode 4
Episode: Deadeye and the Magician
Original Air Date: 1960/10/18
Guest Stars: Vincent Price, Marie Windsor
Wow, Vincent Price looking, well, middle-aged.
Red retells a joke that he told last week because people wrote in and were confused. So he retold it the same way. Alien lands in Beverly Hills and goes, “You’ve got change for a ‘herne’?”
Political humor again, just before the 1960 election. Red’s daughter was mad after the famous 1960 debate.
“‘Who you mad at? Nixon? Kennedy?’ She says, ‘Both of them. I missed, “Huckleberry Hound.’”
“You’ve got change for a ‘herne’?” - Running Joke time…
Pantomime of a little old man having a testimonial dinner. The storyteller is keeping Red on the edge of his seat.
Dancers having a fight in a saloon. That glass bottle trick never seems to get old.
Deadeye and the Magician Act I
At Cactus Kate’s Saloons. The lady dancers are still dancing. There’s Cactus Kate (Windsor). She introduces Maxwell the Magician (Price). Deadeye stops the show, coming in wearing a saddle.
“Sorry I was late, it was my horse’s day to ride. Rather embarrassing, too. He was riding side-saddle.”
Deadeye is getting hypnotized. He’s crazy. There he goes. NIIICE, lol. Vincent Price doesn’t break character.
The magician pulls out a wallet and goes to pay Deadeye the $5.
“Do you have change for a ‘herne’?”
Deadeye brings in the magician. Deputy uses gunpoint.
They take the magician to jail. The magician uses magic to open the bars to let himself in. Then gets Deadeye to hypnotize himself…here comes the melee.
Deadeye and the Magician Act II
Deadeye brings the rest of the loot in town. “Here’s the rest of the ‘herne.’”
Here comes the Marshall, there goes the magician out the window. Sound effects are slow on the take. J
Red’s taking a minute to get the sheriff’s to crack-up. Nice. Good impromptu. Whoa, Deadeye has picked up a trick or two. He can open the bars with magic.
The magician is heading the hanging party. Deadeye comes in wearing the magician’s cloak and goes to pull something out of the cloak but a prop fell on the floor. Nice catch.
More running jokes.
Final thoughts on Deadeye and the Magician
These are the kind of humorous shokes I like the most. The ones where everything under the sun gets tied in together. The jokes went running on this episode. He works really well with Vincent Price. I love how that even though the prop fell out of the magician’s cloak, Vincent Price never broke character when Red lost it.
“Do you have change for a ‘herne’?”
