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Life with the Lyons

Networks
BBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1950–1961
Episodes
22

(22 Episodes) "Life With The Lyons" was a British radio & television domestic sitcom dating from the 1950s (debut: 1950-11-05). What was most unusual about this sitcom, was that it featured real-life American family members, Ben Lyon & his wife, Bebe Daniels.

More about it

The real life couple had settled in London during World War II & were featured with comedian Vic Oliver in the radio series (1940-1949) "Hi, Gang!" "Life with the Lyons" carried on where "Hi, Gang!" left off, and together with Ben & Bebe, were featured their children, Richard & Barbara Lyon. Although this program was completely scripted, it expanded on real-life events. It was, however, definitely not reality television!

Molly Weir was their Scottish housekeeper Aggie MacDonald, Doris Rogers was the nosey neighbour Florrie Wainwright & Horace Percival played Mr. Wimple. Two movies were produced from this program & the show then leaped to BBC TV

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. INTRO (aka Thirteen For Dinner)

    · 0:11

  2. Voyage Home

    · No. 1 · 30 min

  3. Fairy Cakes

    · No. 2 · 29 min

  4. Is There a Dr in the House

    · No. 3 · 29 min

  5. Under the Table

    · No. 9 · 30 min

  6. It's a Man's World

    · No. 10 · 30 min

  7. That Old Friend

    · No. 14 · 30 min

  8. The Life of the Party

    · No. 28 · 28 min

  9. It's a Wise Father

    · No. 35 · 28 min

  10. A Foreign Romance

    · No. 41 · 29 min

  11. Tree of Knowledge

    · No. 44 · 30 min

  12. Rocks in your Garden

    · No. 49 · 29 min

  13. The Upper Set

    · No. 51 · 30 min

  14. Home Again, Too

    · No. 55 · 29 min

  15. Christmas Shopping

    · No. 93 · 29 min

  16. A Crooner in the House

    · No. 121 · 29 min

  17. The Poet

    · No. 123 · 30 min

  18. It's Good to be Home

    · No. 141 · 29 min

  19. Bend & Be Beautiful

    · No. 175 · 28 min

  20. The First Fight

    · No. 204 · 29 min

  21. Lyon in Sheeps Clothing

    · No. 247 · 29 min

  22. A Dog's Tale

    · No. 249 · 30 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Life with the Lyons 22 Eps

    Old Time Radio · 22 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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