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The Bickersons

Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 1:15 BFH Uncategorized 21

Entertainment before TV took over.

Don Ameche stars as John Bickerson, a beaten down husband married to Blanche. It was the precursor to The Honeymooners.

21 Comments on The Bickersons

  2. Old knock-knock joke:

    “Knock, knock.”

    “Who’s there?”

    “Don Ameche.”

    “Don Ameche who?”

    ♫ “I’ll be Don Ameche in a taxi, Honey…” ♪

    (some of you dinosaurs will get it)

    😉

  4. Way back when when I was 10 or so the local radio station CFRA in Ottawa used to have DJ lunch hour at 3:00 A.M. The first half hour was “The Shadow” or “Boston Blackie” while the second half hour was comedy like “Stan Freberg” and the “Battling Bickersons”. Used to try to wake up at 3 and very quietly tune in with my transistor radio under the covers. That’s where I heard the Bickersons first and never let them go. I have all their show now and from time to time wheel them out, Outstanding stuff.

  5. @scr_north: Did you guys get “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet”, or “Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B riders”? I used to have a green tie with BB&TBBB Riders on it.

    Loved Stan Freberg – I still have records with his shows that I listened to live on radio.

    Damn, I’m showing my age here.

  6. It’s all out there. There are a a few good sites with the old radio broadcasts, which by the way were recorded on transcription records. These were the fore-runners of the 33 rpm LP, only they were big. 16″ in diameter, usually a metal (aluminum) or glass base coated with acetate. They could get a full 1/2 hour of play time on them for radio shows. They weren’t meant to be played back too many times (like a shellac or vinyl record) tho due to the acetate, but they were easy to cut (record) for the same reason. I have a fair collection of them, some good, some poor, but they all great history!

  7. “gender imbalance and sexualized portrayals across media and how these depictions relate to issues of labor and production as well as psychological and emotional effects for viewers,

    It makes people laugh

  11. “The Battling Bickersons” was cited in the movie M*A*S*H by the preacher when he stuck his head in the door while Hawkeye was monitoring the goings-on in Hot Lips’ tent with Frank Burns.

  13. I am glad I am old enough to have enjoyed REAL talent and great writing during the Golden Age of Radio and TV. May it R.I.P.
    P.S. Glad so much of it still exists on discs and dvds. I still laugh watching Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges. Moe Howard was a fine gentleman, nothing like he the part he played in their films.

  14. @VietVet; It was mostly detective or mystery shows in the first half hour. I seem to recall a weeks worth of a space program but you could waterboard me and I’d still not remember the name. One of his best was the “Elderly Man River” song where a guy tries to sing “Old Man River” but keeps getting interrupted by a network exec who keeps changing the lyrics to be politically correct. Who would have thought it would be so true today.

  15. I may have mentioned this before. If so, pls bear with old age.

    My “old time radio” favorite was newscaster Gabriel Heater. Every night at 6:00, my parents while fixing supper would turn on Gabriel Heater. He would always begin his broadcast with a hearty, “Helloooo, this is Gabriel Heater with the news.”

    This particular evening, my younger brother, still in diapers and just beginning to pull himself up to peer on the kitchen counter, chose a propitious moment to climb the drawer handles and peep over the edge of the counter. Dad had turned the radio on, it had warmed up, and just as Brother’s eyes cleared the counter top, Gabriel Heater let out a large, Helloooooo! Brother’s eyes got big and he scrammed down and away, screaming in shock.

  16. Stan Freberg was the best. XM’s old time radio station channel 148 plays it quite often. I also like the Bickersons, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly and a lot of the CBS Radio Workshop comedies from the 50’s. But I can’t stand Lum and Abner, it’s way too corny for me and this from a guy who loved Green Acres on TV as well as Hee Haw. Amos and Andy shows are available on CD’s from Radio Spirits.com. I bought one of them for my Dad last Christmas.

  20. The Stan Freberg show where he lampooned 2 rival owners of casinos in Las Vegas with the El Sodom and the EL Gomorrah hotels is also extremely hilarious as they keep one upping one another to see who can put on the most outrageous stage show. Also the skit with Bang Gunley US Marshall Fields sponsored by Puffed Grass cereal is very funny because after all 10 million cows can’t be wrong.

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