Educating Archie

Educating Archie

"Educating Archie" was a BBC Light Programme comedy show broadcast during the 1950s on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his dummy Archie Andrews. The programme was very successful even though the idea of a ventriloquist and his dummy being on radio seems quite illogical. The show often averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club boasted 250,000 members. In 1956 the programme was transferred to television.

The show introduced a number of comedians who later became well known including Tony Hancock, who always replied to a put down by Archie with “flipping kids”, Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Bruce Forsyth and even a young Julie Andrews as the girlfriend of Archie.

ee also

* Peter Brough

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/e/educatingarchie_1299001017.shtml BBC entry]


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