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Educating Archie

Heard
1950–1959
Episodes
11

Educating Archie was a BBC Light Program comedy show broadcast in the early 1950s on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his dummy Archie Andrews. The program 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 program was transferred to television. Audio Files Sourced: Educating Archie - Free OTR Shows

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Unknown Title

    · 26 min

  2. S02e12 the Cinem

    · 30 min

  3. Unknown Title

    · 26 min

  4. Unknown Title

    · 30 min

  5. S04e25 the Burgl

    · 28 min

  6. S01e01 the Firs

    · 29 min

  7. S01e20 Last in

    · 28 min

  8. Unknown Title

    · 29 min

  9. Sspe01 Archie in

    · 28 min

  10. S08e03 Brough Go

    · 28 min

  11. S08e23 Around th

    · 29 min

Where it comes from 1

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  1. Educating Archie (BBC OTR)

    Old Time Radio · 11 episodes here · archive.org

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