Frank Cady

Audiences always roared with delight when Red Skelton went one-on-one with post-war life in The Yellow Cab Man, The Fuller Brush Man and other films. In Half a Hero, the legendary comic took on a slice of 20th-century Americana that still resonates today: the suburbs. Red plays Ben Dobson, a magazine writer whose boss approves of Ben because he lives in a cramped Manhattan apartment instead of "the slums of tomorrow": the 'burbs. So, of course, when Ben movies his family to a sprawling housing development, he struggles (hilariously_ to keep the fact a secret. Jean Hagen, a year after her iconic portrayal of the itsy-voiced screen siren in Singin' in the Rain, plays Ben's long-suffering wife, and singer Polly Bergen makes a guest appearance with a torrid nightclub-scene rendition of "Love."

A frustrated former journalist is now working for an Albuquerque newspaper and exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

A Manhattan attorney starts life anew on a run-down farm in a one-pig town full of oddballs, despite the protests of his city-loving socialite wife.

A clean-cut 1950s couple raises their two sons through life’s growing pains as they tackle issues surrounding teenage-hood, marriage and career.

This western follows the relationship that tough rancher Zandy Allan develops with his mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. Although Zandy sent off for a compliant slave, he ends up with a feisty, headstrong woman.

A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.

A secretary tries to help her boss with his personal problems.

A teenage orphan struggling to survive in the 1910’s rural South is taken in by a small-town newspaper editor who gives him a chance at a normal life.

Characters from a popular TV series return to save the town of Hooterville from greedy developers trying to force the folks to sell their land.