Lynch made her comic points without stooping to female stereotypes, insults, running gags, funny voices or goofy plots." a real leap forward in domestic comedy-a lighthearted, clever, well-observed, daily 15-minute show about the amiable travails of a recognizable suburban couple" which combined "the domestic comedy of a vaudeville-based era with a keen modern sensibility. Radio historian Gerald Nachman (in Raised on Radio) called the show "insightful and realistic. Created by Peg Lynch (1916–2015), who scripted and portrayed Ethel, the series first aired on local Minnesota radio in the early 1940s before a run on the NBC Blue Network and ABC from May 29, 1944, to August 28, 1950. Ethel and Albert (aka The Private Lives of Ethel and Albert) was a radio and television comedy series about a married couple, Ethel and Albert Arbuckle, living in the small town of Sandy Harbor.
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