TONY'S RADIO SHOWS

"Happy-Go-Lucky"

"Happy-Go-Lucky" : August - December 1951
Episode No.Broadcast DateGuests
12-8-51 Suzette Tarri, Benny Hill, and John Hanson
2 9-8-51 Charlie Chester, Harry Locke and Edmundo Ros
3 16-8-51 Beryl Reid and Dick Emery
4 23-8-51 Avrill Angers, Ken Platt and Jimmy Young
5 30-8-51 Terry-Thomas and Freddie Sales
6 6-9-51 Maudie Edwards and Eddie Malloy
7 13-9-51 # Hancock absent #
8 20-9-51 Janet Brown and Bernard Speer. The BBC Augmented
Revue Orchestra conducted by Robert Busby.
9 1-10-51 .
10 15-10-51 (additional material by Galton and Simpson)
11 29-10-51 # Hancock absent #
12 12-11-51 Benny Hill replaced Peter Butterworth
13 26-11-51 # Hancock rehearsed but did not feature in recorded
programme #
14 10-12-51 without Peter Butterworth, with Dick Emery

Transmission : Nos. 1-8 Thursdays 2100-2200 (except no. 9, 2105-2200). Nos. 9-14 Mondays fortnightly 2100-2200 (alternating with Variety Bandbox). All broadcast on the BBC Light Programme. No repeats.
No. 5 was broadcast live from the National Radio Show.

Regular Cast : Derek Roy, Doreen Harris, Peggy Cochrane, Jack and Daphne Barker (except Nos. 2,6,9-14), Harry Noble and Frances King, the BBC Augmented Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black (except no. 8).

Tony Hancock, Peter Butterworth, Graham Stark and Bill Kerr (nos. 1-4 only) appeared in a self-contained sketch, "Eager Beavers", except the last two programmes.
Additionally, each programme had guests (listed above) with whom Hancock did not work and a married couple from the audience celebrating their wedding anniversary, interviewed by Derek Roy and acting in a short sketch with him.

Scripts by Ralp Peterson, John Law, Bill Craig, Laurie Wyman, John Vyvyan, Rona Ricardo, E. K. Smith, and (for shows 10-14) Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Produced by Roy Speer (Nos. 1-11), Dennis Main Wilson (Nos. 12-14).


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