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Very Cool Gag Opening…’Red Shelton Hour’ 1962

Posted on January 26, 2014April 28, 2021


Very Cool Gag Opening…’Red Shelton Hour’ 1962

Wait till you see what’s under the black dust cover on the RCA TK41! As you’ll see in this :30 clip, this is actually in CBS Television City Studio 33, but we are lead to believe otherwise. Enjoy! Thanks to William David French for discovering this.

http://CDN.eyesofageneration.com/Content/Viewseum/skeltonjoketk41.mp4

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