TV Guide (April 16, 1954)

Page scan 00067 from TV Guide

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
April 16, 1954
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - New York (April 16, 1954)
Leaf #:
00067
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
February 15, 2024
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“Hello, Duffy’s Tavern” The Place Where The Elite Meet To Eat Is On TV Now D UFFY’S TAVERN, the long-re¬ membered radio show, is now beginning to show its face on televi¬ sion, and this should be cause for con¬ siderable rejoicing among the former listeners. One of the most literate il¬ literate shows on the air, it had a flavor all its own, and was perhaps the forerunner of the informal school of radio programming. Ed Gardner, the “Archie” of the famed restaurant, is not particularly overjoyed with the current turn of events. “This television,” he says, “is too tough on an old guy like me. But we were livin’ in Spain, which is a good little town, and there wasn’t nobody there you could talk shop with and I couldn’t even get a good table at a restaurant on account of all the dukes so I just got real hammy and came home.” If it just weren’t for the physical activity, Gardner actually would find the TV film version of Duffy’s Tavern a good deal easier than the radio show. “In radio,” he explains, “I was the producer and the director and half the time the writer and also Archie. I was goin’ all the time. It was an awful 20