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1942–1960 · NBC

People Are Funny

Art Linkletter and the stunt show that proved audiences would do anything.

Linkletter's stunt show is where a great deal of later television was invented: the ordinary person as content, the prize as motive, the producer's willingness to see how far someone would go. It ran on NBC radio from 1942, arrived on television in 1954, and for five years both versions were in production at once — the same idea, twice a week, in two media.

On radio
Radio from 1942
On television
Television from 19 September 1954
The overlap
Radio and television versions overlapped until 1959

4 recordings · Hollywood

AFRS transcriptions of People Are Funny held by the Internet Archive; the discs carry programme numbers rather than dates. Public domain (US network broadcast, copyright not renewed); no Creative Commons or non-commercial terms apply.

Undated recordings4

Transmission

31 January

No. 25

1950

People Are Funny

Cinderella is Here at Last

Network

NBC

Running time

29 min

People Are Funny, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive;

Transmission

7 February

No. 24

1950

People Are Funny

Goats Milk

Network

NBC

Running time

29 min

People Are Funny, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive;

Transmission

14 February

No. 23

1950

People Are Funny

Movie Star and Husband

Network

NBC

Running time

30 min

People Are Funny, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive;

Transmission

19 September

No. 22

1950

People Are Funny

1st Show10th Season

Network

NBC

Running time

30 min

People Are Funny, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive;