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On this page you will be able to watch some of our favorite radio shows that "spun off" onto television.
Several Old time Radio shows spun off onto television. Some were successful, others were not. An interesting example of a not too successful television adaptation was Fibber McGee and Molly.
▼Click the play arrow in the box for The Lone Ranger on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Abbott & Costello on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Dragnet on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Our Miss Brooks on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Ozzie & Harriet on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Burns and Allen on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Jack Benny on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Life Of Riley on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for The Cisco Kid on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Death Valley Days on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for The Adventures of Ellery Queen on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Captain Midnight on TV▼
▼Click the play arrow in the box for The Great Gildersleeve on TV▼
An attempt at getting the McGees onto television came in September 1959, with actors Bob Sweeney and Cathy Lewis in the roles. The show also featured Harold Peary as Mayor LaTrivia, rather than as Gildersleeve. The show was unable to recreate the flavor and humor of the original, and did not survive its first season; in fact, it didn't even last through January 1960. The Jordans themselves had resisted television far earlier. "They were trying to push us into TV and we were reluctant," Jim Jordan told an interviewer many years later. "Our friends advised us, 'Don't do it until you need to. You have this value in radio—milk it dry.'"
▼Click the play arrow in the box for Fibber McGee and Molly on TV▼
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