The Clown

Red Skelton stars as a once-great vaudeville performer who's now battling alcoholism, fighting to keep custody of his son and forced to scrape a living working on stage as The Clown. Dodo Delwyn (Skelton--"The Red Skelton Show") has lost his dignity, his wife and now may lose his son, Dink (Tim Considine--"My Three Sons"). But when Dink convinces his father's agent to find him a television show, Dodo decides to change his life and make a success of his place in this new medium.