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Tonight's comedy sketch, "San Fernando for Governor", takes place in a unnamed big city during an unspecified earlier decade. On the lam for selling phony furs, con artist San Fernando Red (Red Skelton) and his cohort Ruby (Amanda Blake) have a run-in with Mayor Edgar G. Mathews (Billy Gilbert). Using a bit of blackmail, San Fernando manages to become Mathews' chief aide, then promotes himself to the Mayoral office, where he gleefully collects graft from a battalion of equally corrupt aldermen. Highlights include Billy Gilbert's traditional sneezing fit, and the moment when, after watching Amanda Blake plant a long, deep kiss on an elderly politician, Red turns to the camera and giggles "She did more here in five minutes than she was able to do with Matt Dillon in six years of Gunsmoke!" This episode was originally broadcast on March 29, 1960.