TV Show Details
Air Date:September 26th, 1958
Last Air Date:December 18th, 1959
Status:Ended
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Associated-Rediffusion Television
Educating Archie (1958-1959)
TV Show
Scripted
Plot
Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show which was broadcast for nearly ten years between June 1950 and February 1960, mostly at lunchtime on Sundays. The programme featured ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. The show was very popular, despite its unlikely central premise of a ventriloquist act on radio. Educating Archie averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club boasted 250,000 members. It was so successful that in 1950, after only four months on the air, it won the Daily Mail's Variety Award. This series is lost.