Radio shows they shoulda placed on TV
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joes119-1 — 14 years ago(April 26, 2011 02:49 AM)
It appears that LWL ran for three episodes between September 1952 and January 1953. I was unlucky enough to see them. Assimilation of immigrants seemed a recurring topic of both radio and early TV. That most TV sets were located in NYC had something to do with that, I suppose.
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grantch — 14 years ago(January 08, 2012 05:57 AM)
Life with Luigi was on television although we did not have a TV set in 1952, when we visited some people who did have one rather than a console radio I remember seeing an episode of both Life with Luigi and My Friend Irma on their TV, and both shows used the same cast as on radio to the best of my recollection.
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HarlowMGM — 13 years ago(October 15, 2012 09:59 PM)
The cast of the TV adaptation of LIFE WITH LUIGI can be seen in character in a brief skit in the allstar CBS special STARS IN THE EYE
http://www.imdb.com/board/11318038/#comment
that is available on the inexpensive dvd set THE BEST OF JOHNNY CARSON AND FRIENDS (Carson is not on this 1952 program of course, the dvd set is merely a collection of 1950's variety shows). -
HarlowMGM — 13 years ago(October 15, 2012 10:07 PM)
I'm surprised it took them so long to bring BLONDIE to television, not until 1958 and then they stupidly replaced the irreplacable Penny Singleton as Blondie. She was 50 at the time but she still could have played Blondie with teenaged kids (like the comic strip would later age them) or even just 10-12 year olds, after all there are plenty of women in their late thirties and very early forties with newborns.
Two fantastic radio anthology series that should have been brought to television are THEATRE GUILD and NBC UNIVERSITY THEATER which both did outstanding adaptations of either major plays, novels, or short stories. Perhaps though it would have been too expensive getting the tv rights to those works every week; the authors probably gave the radio shows a break since radio was basically publicity for them but tv adaptations would have possibly cut into motion picture sales rights despite the fact that several acclaimed teleplays were eventually made into motion pictures. -
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opryphantom1 — 13 years ago(March 03, 2013 04:24 PM)
Yeah, like Be-Bop. Sheesh, they say more clubs went belly up than thrived; there were only a *few really good musicians who could play that stuff.
p.s. Anyone here recall when Prez Jimmy Carter sang(?) "Salt Peanuts" with Diz?