Senior Citizens: Which was your favourite comedy radio show of the old days?

Hancock,s Half Hour,Educating Archie,Life with the Lyons,

But there was also,Meet the Huggets,and Billy Cotton,s Band Show.I always associate Sunday roast dinner with Billy Cotton,They were always served up at the same time!!

Top of the list has to be The Navy Lark. My favourite character was the dimwit man from intellegence who chatted up Wren Chasen over the 'phone.

Other favourites were Beyond Our Ken/Round the Horne, Hancock's Half Hour and I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.

The Goon show closely followed by Hancocks Half Hour.

Wow that takes me back....

I do remember the Lone Ranger with Brace Beemer from WJR in Detroit. I have several CD compilations of George Burns and Gracie Allen and the Jack Benny Show. I'm sure if I were born in Britain I'd remember some of those. There are still some wonderful radio shows if only people woud look for them. Wair, Wait, Don't Tell Me on NPR comes to mind. It's a game show with, dare I say it, intelligence!

Born 1950, the TV era had already touched our lives. However, in the 1970's a rebirth of old radio shows, including Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny (already mentioned), The Lone Ranger, WC Fields, Edger Bergan and Charlie McCarthy, my favorites-not to mention the specials: War of the Worlds.

In the US, my absolute forever favorite was the Fred Allen show. He invented some wildly crazy characters, and his wife Portland Hoffa did the female voices [notably Mrs. Nussbaum and some creepy little girl]. This feature was called 'Allen's Alley', and Fred would mosey along and interact with all these characters--including Senator Claghorn, the Old Timer, and the two abovementioned. Fred Allen was a brilliant comedy writer and also did schtick for other comedians. He died too soon and was too soon forgotten - only Ernie Kovacs [of blessed memory] could equal him.

Inner Sanctum

The Bickersons

The Goldbergs

Amos & Andy

Lone Ranger

Burns & Allen

Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy

Life of Riley

Gunsmoke

H H Hancock's Half Hour

The Goon Show.

Duffy's Tavern

Fibber McGee and Molly

Jack Benny

Burns and Allen

he Life of Riley