Racket Squad The Christmas Caper (1950– ) watch online HD

This is a Christmas episode of "Racket Squad" and is naturally one with a lot of holiday spirit in spite of the fraud. It's about a man named Dooley (Lloyd Corrigan)--a guy who all the kids in the apartment complex love. It's a shame, as today I think a lot of folks would think nice Mr. Dooley was a creeper--and not the sort of man you'd allow around your children.

It begins with 'Uncle' Dooley inviting the neighbor kids to come into his apartment to play. As they begin talking about the Christmas season, it's apparent most of these kids' families are not well off and they are expecting nothing for Christmas morning. However, Dooley is a nice old guy and backs himself into a corner--promising them a wonderful holiday. But how? Well, Dooley decides to look for a job--one that will help him make the kids' Christmas merry after all. The problem is that the folks who hire him are sleaze-bags (one is played by Jackie Coogan--the child star and Uncle Fester from "The Addams Family" TV show). They pay him to stand on the street dressed as Santa to collect for a charity for underprivileged kids. The problem is that there is no charity! What will happen to Dooley and these sweet kids--especially when Captain Braddock (Reed Hadley) sees the need to arrest him!

This is a very sweet episode that I am sure many curmudgeons and cynics will laugh at because it is old fashioned. However, I thought it was well written and I liked seeing some familiar old Hollywood faces. In addition to Corrigan and Coogan, Willie Best can be seen in the show as well. Well worth your time.

The Racket Squad investigates a Christmas caper about kids who don't get the kind of holiday gifts. It's about giving back to the community around the holidays. Uncle Dooley decides to treat the neighborhood kids to a Christmas to remember. It appeared on the Holiday Favorites DVD collection.

This is the sort of TV episode that ought to be ripped apart on "MST3K".

"...I am sure many curmudgeons and cynics will laugh at because it is old fashioned." I laughed my head off, not because it was treacly sentimental, but because it's bad. Really bad. With one A.

The story and writing are terrible. Every sentimental cliché is trotted out to induce squirming and nausea. There's even a little girl with leg problems who receives a gift of money so that a doctor can help her. ($20 went a lot further back them.)

I'd rewrite it so that Mr Dooley thinks he's going to be incarcerated and runs from the police. They unload their pistols into the unarmed man, just as modern police do. They then return to his apartment, to confiscate the gifts and money as "evidence".

There is great wailing and gnashing of teeth from the children, and great laughter from the viewers.