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Jude The Obscure · 03-11-2009, 07:20 PM

Anyone else here ever listened to the radio version of this show? My g/f recently suprised me with two CD volumes from OldTimeRadio. Listening to these, I've been enjoying them a lot. If anything, the characters were toned down for TV. Jim here is often yelling and sarcastic. Betty is really an airhead princess, Bud is often just dumb and Kathy is really ANNOYING AND BRATTY on the radio show. Margaret just seems the same--calm, reassuring, putting up with Jim's rants and her kids' misbehavior. I much prefer how the characters came out on the TV show, but this is still a very enjoyable way to enjoy the roots of one of our fave shows!

comedyfreak · 03-12-2009, 08:49 AM

Were his radio family played by the same actors? Seems interesting.

MickeyMac · 03-12-2009, 05:08 PM

I have to admit I didnt even know there was a radio version of this show.

Jude The Obscure · 03-12-2009, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by comedyfreak

Were his radio family played by the same actors? Seems interesting.

Robert Young was the only actor to go from the radio to TV versions. Just as well, because none of the radio actors compare to how well Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray or Lauren Chapin do the parts. I've heard that Kathy on radio was played by an adult actress trying to sound like a 9 year old. In any case, it is still worth listening,for these are the roots of the TV show. And so far to the ones I've heard, not one radio episode was redone for TV.

comedyfreak · 03-13-2009, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Jude The Obscure

And so far to the ones I've heard, not one radio episode was redone for TV.

Now that's talent on the writers part, too bad it isn't that way now.

Jude The Obscure · 03-13-2009, 03:27 PM

Like I said on another forum, it's like getting FKB: The Lost Episodes

Jude The Obscure · 03-16-2009, 11:08 PM

Got to amend this.....I've discovered one episode so far that was redone for TV..."The Thanksgiving Story", with a few slight changes to adapt it to TV.
Either way, it was still a good show, no matter which way it was done.

Jude The Obscure · 03-17-2009, 11:19 PM

And listened to another one today adapted for TV--the one where Kathy writes a letter to the mayor and signs it as Jim and gets him in all sorts of trouble.

Jude The Obscure · 03-19-2009, 06:56 PM

Today i heard the radio version of the marriage proposal episode where Margaret is trying to slyly get her cousin hitched up to an eligible bachelor.

Jude The Obscure · 04-09-2009, 10:27 PM

another episode redone for TV was the wedding of Margaret's cousin, where the intendeds have a fight and Margeret intervenes....and Bud has to stand in for the bride!

Jude The Obscure · 04-09-2009, 10:32 PM

I'm now into the third season of the radio series and there are some changes. The theme music has been changed (and no, the TV theme was not used as one of the radio themes), the writing staff has been changed, while the overall sponsor--General Foods--remained, the products spotlighted go from Maxwell House coffee to Postum and Post 40% Bran Flakes. Also the actress playing Margaret changes from June Whitley to Jean VanderPyl (Better known as Wilma Flintstone) and the one portraying Kathy as well. I would love to find out why these changes occurred.

Jude The Obscure · 04-12-2009, 12:42 AM

another episode adapted for TV--the kids take Jim's speech on volunteering to heart and land him in all kinds of mischief.

It seems the actress who voiced Betty changed as well--not sure and Jean VanderPyl alternated with yet another actress as Margaret. Hard to find info because there isn't that many online sources for the radio series--TV series, yes, radio, no.

And I must be talking to myself

Jude The Obscure · 04-21-2009, 11:17 PM

two more episodes today that were later redone for TV--Kathy finding the injured bird on the windowsill and Bud hiding out from a bully.

it seems Jean Vanderpyl wasn't doing Margaret that often. Actress Dorothy Lovitt seems to be in more third season episodes than Jean.

Jude The Obscure · 04-25-2009, 10:00 PM

Another episode redone for TV--Jim fears he is getting old after hearing about a former classmate already being a grandfather.

Jude The Obscure · 05-01-2009, 11:39 PM

Yet another episode--Bud the Snob!

Jean seems to be Margaret in the last few I've listened to--including some redos of scripts done in the first two seasons with June Whitley as Margaret. (Foreshadowing the Dick York/Dick Sargent Bewitched redoing whole episodes).

The sponsor is now Sanka! And we all know Robert Young was famous in the '70s for doing Sanka tv ads

IS ANYONE READING MY POSTS??

03-11-2009, 07:20 PM	#1
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	FKB, the Radio Series Anyone else here ever listened to the radio version of this show? My g/f recently suprised me with two CD volumes from OldTimeRadio. Listening to these, I've been enjoying them a lot. If anything, the characters were toned down for TV. Jim here is often yelling and sarcastic. Betty is really an airhead princess, Bud is often just dumb and Kathy is really ANNOYING AND BRATTY on the radio show. Margaret just seems the same--calm, reassuring, putting up with Jim's rants and her kids' misbehavior. I much prefer how the characters came out on the TV show, but this is still a very enjoyable way to enjoy the roots of one of our fave shows!

03-12-2009, 08:49 AM	#2
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03-12-2009, 05:08 PM	#3
MickeyMac Member Forum Star Join Date: Jun 18, 2008 Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan Posts: 19,004	I have to admit I didnt even know there was a radio version of this show.

03-13-2009, 03:27 PM	#6
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	Like I said on another forum, it's like getting FKB: The Lost Episodes

03-16-2009, 11:08 PM	#7
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	Got to amend this.....I've discovered one episode so far that was redone for TV..."The Thanksgiving Story", with a few slight changes to adapt it to TV. Either way, it was still a good show, no matter which way it was done.

03-17-2009, 11:19 PM	#8
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	And listened to another one today adapted for TV--the one where Kathy writes a letter to the mayor and signs it as Jim and gets him in all sorts of trouble.

03-19-2009, 06:56 PM	#9
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	Today i heard the radio version of the marriage proposal episode where Margaret is trying to slyly get her cousin hitched up to an eligible bachelor.

04-09-2009, 10:27 PM	#10
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	another episode redone for TV was the wedding of Margaret's cousin, where the intendeds have a fight and Margeret intervenes....and Bud has to stand in for the bride!

04-09-2009, 10:32 PM	#11
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	I'm now into the third season of the radio series and there are some changes. The theme music has been changed (and no, the TV theme was not used as one of the radio themes), the writing staff has been changed, while the overall sponsor--General Foods--remained, the products spotlighted go from Maxwell House coffee to Postum and Post 40% Bran Flakes. Also the actress playing Margaret changes from June Whitley to Jean VanderPyl (Better known as Wilma Flintstone) and the one portraying Kathy as well. I would love to find out why these changes occurred.

04-12-2009, 12:42 AM	#12
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	another episode adapted for TV--the kids take Jim's speech on volunteering to heart and land him in all kinds of mischief. It seems the actress who voiced Betty changed as well--not sure and Jean VanderPyl alternated with yet another actress as Margaret. Hard to find info because there isn't that many online sources for the radio series--TV series, yes, radio, no. And I must be talking to myself

04-21-2009, 11:17 PM	#13
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	two more episodes today that were later redone for TV--Kathy finding the injured bird on the windowsill and Bud hiding out from a bully. it seems Jean Vanderpyl wasn't doing Margaret that often. Actress Dorothy Lovitt seems to be in more third season episodes than Jean.

04-25-2009, 10:00 PM	#14
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	Another episode redone for TV--Jim fears he is getting old after hearing about a former classmate already being a grandfather.

05-01-2009, 11:39 PM	#15
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,519	Yet another episode--Bud the Snob! Jean seems to be Margaret in the last few I've listened to--including some redos of scripts done in the first two seasons with June Whitley as Margaret. (Foreshadowing the Dick York/Dick Sargent Bewitched redoing whole episodes). The sponsor is now Sanka! And we all know Robert Young was famous in the '70s for doing Sanka tv ads IS ANYONE READING MY POSTS??