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TONY'S RADIO SHOWS |
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| "Happy-Go-Lucky" |
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| "Happy-Go-Lucky" : August - December 1951 | ||
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| Episode No. | Broadcast Date | Guests |
| 1 | 2-8-51 | 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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