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HAPPY Felton has been making radio audiences laugh for a good many years, but one glance at his generous 300-pound girth and jolly face proves that Happy was built for television.
Producer Ray Harvey thought so, too, and when he decided to put an audience participation show on video, he got together with Happy Felton and cooked up School Days which is now seen and heard on WABD every Wednesday at 8:00 P.M. Participants are chosen from the studio audience. Prizes go to the students with the highest grades.
Producer Harvey doesn't believe that the stunt program can be lifted right out of radio and put on television as is. "It's one thing to see a man hit with a pie way up on a stage or hear it over the radio; it's quite another thing to see a man so treated right in your own living room. It's my opinion that the video audience participation show cannot go in for broad slapstick. The medium is too intimate," declares Mr. Harvey.
On a participation show, contestants and m.c. share in importance. Mr. Harvey is an expert at choosing participants who will speak up in clear voices and will be able to take a joke. The Master-of-Ceremonies carries a burden in television that makes a similar radio stint seem like play. Once the show begins, he is constantly on camera, and completely on his own. In radio he can be given. all manner of cues, directions, and even have notes slipped to him. In video, however, the viewer sees all the action there is.
Radio's famous "audience participant," Sadie Hertz, made her television debnt as one of Happy's "students."
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