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This full-color episode of The Red Skelton Show constituted both a beginning and an ending: It was Red's first program for the 1959-60 season, and it represented the final on-camera appearance of screen idol Errol Flynn. In the comedy sketch "Freddie's Beat Shack," Flynn plays a gentleman tramp opposite Skelton's Freddie the Freeloader. The premise: All the local hipsters are convinced that Freddie's squalid shack is a coffeehouse, so they begin converging on the place. Crisis: Freddie and the beatniks will be evicted unless he lands a job. Singer Scott Engel also appears on this half-hour program, which originally aired September 29, 1959.