Educating Archie
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Educating Archie was a BBC "Light Programme" Comedy show broadcast in the early 1950's on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his dummy Archie Andrews. The programme was very succesful even though the idea of a Ventriloquist and his Dummy being on radio seems quite illogical. The show often averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club boasted 250,000 members. In 1956 the programme was transferred to television.
The show introduced a number of later well known comedians including Tony Hancock, who always replied to a put down by Archie with “Flipping Kids”, Jimmy Edwards, Benny Hill, Harry Secombe and even a young Julie Andrews as the girlfriend of Archie.
