Starter of this subject: Eric Cooper
Last post in this subject: 3/26/2005
Messages in this subject: 2
| Eric Cooper | 3/26/2005 2 replies |
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Long time Burns and Allen show writer Paul Henning is dead at age 93. As usual, the Associated Press barely mentions his radio career in half a sentence and even John Dunning's encyclopedia only credits him with that one show. But,ironically, a book that I have about TV (the title is simply Television, author is Michael Winship, published in 1988), gives far more details. Mr. Henning began at KMBC Radio in Kansas City and was soon hired on as an assistant writer for the Johnson's Wax Program after writing a "spec" script for Fibber McGee and Molly. That book also credits him with radio work for Joe E Brown and and Rudy Vallee. Henning is quoted in the book as follows
" Writing for radio was a breeze. You could write a script in a couple of days, if you had the right idea"
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| ed kienzler | 3/26/2005 1 replies |
| Thanx Eric for mentioning his radio career-did you know that the show "Green Acres" started as a radio show with a different title in its heyday and Paul had a hand in it when it was on TV!!! |
| Eric Cooper | 3/29/2005 0 replies |
| Yes, Granby's Green Acres starred Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet and was created and written by Jay Sommers, who wrote for Paul Henning on Petticoat Junction. It was M |