Opening: Talks about coming back to television; dressing rooms; looking good at old age; State Fair health; meeting people; Seagulls; type of mime. Mimes: New Yorker on a Horse; Drive-In; Dunking Donuts; Greek restaurant waiter; Birth, Life and Death of a Flower in a Storm. Jokes: Desires at Midnight. Clem (Hunting dogs); Junior (Milkman; Dust); Funeral; Airplane fuel.

Freddie the Freeloader sets out to have Xmas dinner in a very expensive New York restaurant with his good friend, the Professor. Along the way he stops in a hospital to entertain some children on Xmas. Red Skelton does a couple of songs on his own & a duet with Vincent Price.

This HBO Special was recorded live at the Centre in the Square Theatre in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

This is the third and final HBO special by Red Skelton and was taped live at Hamilton Place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Skelton performed several mime skits including a grandfather teaching baseball to his grandson, a woman driver, a veterinarian giving a flu shot to a whale, and a father viewing his new baby for the first time at the maternity ward window

In 1984, Skelton gave a Royal Command Performance for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds which was later shown in the US on HBO

Red Skelton Career in Laughter DVD