Army Edition - 13/4/1944
4 Extra Debut. Tommy Handley meets the troops when his farm turns into an army base. With Horace Percival. Wartime comedy from April 1944.
Tommy Handley meets the troops when his farm turns into an army base. With Horace Percival.
ITMA proved to be one of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's most popular radio comedies ever produced. It was first transmitted just before the start of the Second World War in 1939 and ran to 1949. Domestic audiences topped 20 million, and the audience worldwide was said to number 30 million. It starred Liverpudlian comic Tommy Handley, who with Ted Kavanagh created the series named after the phrase newspapers often used to describe Hitler: It's That Man Again!
The original setting on a ship was deemed inappropriate once war broke out, and was replaced with the Office Of Twerps, with Tommy as Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries.
With:
Sydney Keith
Horace Percival
Dorothy Summers
Bill Stephens
Dino Galvani
Jean Capra
Diana Morrison
Music from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. Singer: Jack Cooper.
Script written by Ted Kavanagh.
Producer: Francis Worsley
First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Service in April 1944
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