[…]s of variety shows but he was always, he was an innovator of his day and in, at the field of entertainment. And he, I mean we did the first situation comedy, family situation comedy, soap I suppose you could call it, ever in 1948, I think it was, called Family Affairs.Mm.It was the story of the[…]
[…] entertainment. And he, I mean we did the first situation comedy, family situation comedy, soap I suppose you could call […]
[…] it wasn't a commercial, viable, nowhere for a writer to live on. It wasn't anything at all, it was something you knew some people watched. The first comedy shows I can recall on there was Bob Monkhouse and Dennis Goodwin kind of things. But it was nothing like, radio was still the big work place, w[…]
[…]- Sidney Newman - er - who was then head of drama asked me if I would write something for the Wednesday Play - so we wrote that - but it was really a comedy - and Sidney said “I want a comedy” - so you know although it was a drama it was a …it was a dramatic comedy.Q: Yes - yes I’ve got somet[…]
[…] marvelous, fertile period of German production,Speaker 1 15:12 see, besides Fritz Lang, you had lupic. Well, I thought for sophisticated comedy was a pass master. I mean, Erwin, I don't think has ever been when we maybe you say it very clear in some way, but he was a great, was a genius[…]
[…]iss was the only American star that I can remember coming, which just gives youan idea of the hierarchy of the studios. We were mostly concerned with comedyRoy Fowler: Had Ted Black arrived yetMaurice Carter: Ted Black was there from the day I went there in 34Roy Fowler: My memory of Nine Days A Que[…]
[…]t for your money?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we usually got the newsreel, which by then was a couple of issues old. The newsreel, a travel short, a two-reel comedy, the feature of course and maybe a second feature sometimes.Roy Fowler: Ah hmm. Any commercials at that stage, advertisements?Eddie Dryhurst: N[…]
[…] twin brother. My older brother was born in Rome before we were and I think possibly the first thing we we did professionally was a production of the comedy of errors in which my twin brother and I played one pair of twins that Romeo's which were my first was my first experience of acting or Shakesp[…]
