Ethel And Albert aired from April 1953 until July 1956 on NBC, CBS, and ABC.
Ethel And Albert was one of many popular radio shows of the 1940's that had a second life on television in the 1950's. The format was extremely simple and down to Earth following the middle-aged Ethel and Albert Arbuckle ( Peg Lynch, Alan Bunce), through the minor triumphs and crisis of everday life. A gentle realism was the keynote of this series with blown fuses, burnt-out lightbulbs and ruined dinners being about the worst things that happened in Sandy Harbor where the couple lived. On radio, The Arbuckles had generally been the only characters heard but a few friends and neighbors wandered through the tv version from time to time.
Peggy Lynch who played Ethel created and wrote the series, which began on radio over a local station in Minnesota in 1938 and went network in 1944( Lynch's radio co-star for several years was Richard Widmark). Ethel And Albert's first television exposure was during the 1952-1953 season, when it was telecast as a regular 15 minute segment of The Kate Smith Hour; In April 1953 it was given it's own half-hour slot on Saturday nights on NBC. In 1955 it was carried by CBS as a summer replacement for December Bride and in the fall of 1955 ABC broadcast the show on Friday. By the spring of 1956, It had become the last live sitcom regularly broadcast on network television. Another curiosity was the fact that the theme song of this series " Love Nest" was also the signature theme of another well known couple which had another sitcom on radio and tv " George Burns and Gracie Allen."
Peg Lynch's Biography ( Courtesy of IMDB)
Biography for
Peggy Lynch
Date of Birth
11 May 1916, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Birth Name
Margaret Frances Lynch
Mini Biography
Writer-actress Peggy (aka Peg) Lynch who was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, began her broadcasting career in 1938 as a jack-of-all trades at a small radio station in Minnesota. Her realistic husband and wife sketches caught the attention of network officials at NBC in Chicago and soon her popular and extremely funny radio shows, which had become known as Ethel And Albert, the names of her husband and wife characters, was being heard on a regular basis on that network. When the ABC network was formed in the mid 1940s, Ethel And Albert became one of that networks earliest successful attractions. Lynch was the show's only writer as well as its leading female actress for the entire run of the series. In the early 1950s, Ethel And Albert was seen regularly as a featured skit on The Kate Smith television program and subsequently became a popular weekly situation comedy series.
In the mid 1950s, Lynch wrote and starred in a new radio series called The Couple Next Door for the CBS radio network. The show basically followed the same format as the old Ethel And Albert show and the program co-starred Lynch's long time Ethel And Albert leading man, Alan Bunce. In the 1970s, Lynch's husband and wife sketches turned up once again as one of the fifteen minute, five days a week programs on the syndicated Radio Playhouse radio series. Lynch's husband on these shows was Robert Dryden ( Alan Bunce had passed away in 1965). Lynch and her wonderful "slices of life" radio plays can still be seen and heard regularly at various Old Time Radio show conventions and at various radio respective presentations.
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