Ethel & Albert - NBC Radio Monitor: w/Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce (CD)

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Available for the first time… NBC Monitor episodes of Ethel & Albert starring Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce!

These sparkling 3 to 4 minutes vignettes are complete mini-episodes created especially for NBC Radio's Monitor programming and broadcast 1963 to 1965. These unique programs are being made available for the first time… exclusively by Peg Lynch Recordings.

Peg Lynch is a radio pioneer - some call her the Lady Who Invented Sitcom. Her warm, fast and funny creation, Ethel & Albert -- the everyday life of an average middle-class couple living in small-town America -- became one of the country's most popular husband-and-wife comedies from the day it was first heard in 1938. Starting as a three-minute filler between the Women's Hour and the weather, it zoomed from a small radio station in Minnesota Minnesota (KATE in Peg's hometown of Albert Lea) to ABC in New York, where it was expanded to 15 minutes and later to a half hour. It's popularity increased even more when it moved to live television in 1950 -- first on the Kate Smith Show and then to its own half-hour weekly slot in 1953. The series returned to radio on CBS in 1957 as The Couple Next Door. From 1963 to 1965, it reprised its original three-minute format on NBC Radio Monitor. It was revived as a syndicated radio feature in the mid-70s as The Little Things in Life.

Peg Lynch's comedy is timeless and ever believable. She writes about the little things in life--losing the car keys, the jar that won't open, looking for that other shoe, the guests who leave things and then need them mailed, the driver's license that expires--the things that strike a responsive chord in us all. Devoted fans of the show included hundreds of well-known names of the day, such as James Thurber, George S. Kaufman, Jack Benny, Phil Silvers, Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Charles Laughton, Trevor Howard, Basil Rathbone, and novelist John Cheever, who expressed an interest in writing for the show (Ms. Lynch politely declined). 

During her six-decade career, Peg Lynch has written more than 10,000 scripts for radio and television, alone and unaided, and she still performs her comedy material across the country.

This CD, Volume 1, starring Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce is from the NBC Radio Monitor series 1963-65 (approx. 3 to 4 min. per episode).

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Twelve Hilarious Episodes (approx. 45 total minutes):

01. Driver's License 
02. The Painter 
03. To Open, Turn Left 
04. Neighborhood Bully 
05. Just Call and Say Hello 
06. Southern Hospitality 
07. Giving Directions 
08. Their First Kiss 
09. Complaint Department 
10. Recipe Arithmetic
11. I Can't Remember Names
12. The Birthday Surprise