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Philip Rapp's The Baby Snooks Scripts, edited by Ben Ohmart (BearManor Media, 2003), contains Rapp's original radio scripts from Maxwell House Coffee Time, the Good News Show and other programs. The Baby Snooks Scripts, volume two (BearManor Media, 2007), includes an undated script by Rapp featuring Alfred Hitchcock in the unlikely role of Snooks.
The show garnered respectable ratings for its early evening time slot, although a second season was not produced. It was thought that, like most radio shows of the time, the episodes had not been recorded. The episodes were thought entirely lost until 1988, when 25 of the 26 scripts were rediscovered in the Library of Congress storage and ...
The Bob Burns Show; The Bob Hope Show/The Pepsodent Show; Bob & Ray; Beulah; The Bickersons; The Billie Burke Show; Block and Sully; Blondie; Blue Ribbon Town; That Brewster Boy; Burns and Allen; The Candid Microphone; The Charlie McCarthy Show; The Chase and Sanborn Hour; Chickenman; The Credibility Gap; The Cuckoo Hour; The Dr Demento Radio ...
An hour-long 25th anniversary show was broadcast in 1989, comically introduced as "full frontal radio". The title of the show derives from a phrase commonly used by BBC Announcers in the age of live radio, following an on-air flub: "I'm sorry, I'll read that again." Basing the show's title on the phrase used to recover from a mistake set the ...
The fact that Ray Ellington was black was commonly joked about. Most of these "politically incorrect" statements and jokes were later edited out, and were consequently lost. However, the above episodes are broadcast on Goon Show Radio, and (with the exception of "The Affair Of The Lone Banana"), contain the supposed cuts outlined below.
The radio producer Charles Maxwell had contracted Edwards, together with Joy Nichols and Dick Bentley, for the final series in 1947 of the radio show Navy Mixture for which Muir had provided some scripts, and after this show ended Maxwell received a commission for a new weekly comedy series to star Edwards, Nichols and Bentley. He introduced ...
The National Lampoon Radio Hour was a comedy radio show which was created, produced and written by staff from National Lampoon magazine. [ 1 ] The show ran weekly, for a little over a year, from November 17, 1973 to December 28, 1974.
Parts of the scripts were rewritten in the hour before the broadcast, to ensure topicality. ITMA broke away from the conventions of previous radio comedies, and from the humour of the music halls. The shows used sound effects in a novel manner, which, alongside a wide range of voices and accents, created the programme's atmosphere.