Educating Archie

Educating Archie

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1958-09-26

Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show which was broadcast for nearly ten years between June 1950 and February 1960, mostly at lunchtime on Sundays. The programme featured ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. The show was very popular, despite its unlikely central premise of a ventriloquist act on radio. Educating Archie averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club boasted 250,000 members. It was so successful that in 1950, after only four months on the air, it won the Daily Mail's Variety Award. This series is lost.

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Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show which was broadcast for nearly ten years between June 1950 and February 1960, mostly at lunchtime on Sundays. The programme featured ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. The show was very popular, despite its unlikely central premise of a ventriloquist act on radio. Educating Archie averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club boasted 250,000 members. It was so successful that in 1950, after only four months on the air, it won the Daily Mail's Variety Award. This series is lost.

First Aired

1958-09-26

Last Aired

1959-12-18

Seasons

2

Episodes

27

Director

Status

Ended

Genres

Language

English

Network

Production

Associated-Rediffusion Television

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    Peter Brough

    Peter Brough
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    Dick Emery

    Dick Emery
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    Freddie Sales

    Freddie Sales
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    Irene Handl

    Irene Handl