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Comedy Fiction
Comedy Fiction
The Marriage.
The Marriage is a good choice for collectors and OTR listeners who enjoy classic radio comedy, domestic sitcoms, family humor, and vintage relationship-based storytelling. It fits naturally beside programs such as My Favorite Husband, The Couple Next Door, The Aldrich Family, and Father Knows Best.
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The Marriage: Programme Guide.
Ben and Liz Marriott find that a long marriage still leaves room for surprise, disagreement and affection. The Marriage observes family life through conversations whose humour grows from familiarity rather than a weekly villain.
Broadcast history.
The NBC radio programme aired in 1953–1954 before a short television version. A contemporary October 1953 review describes the opening around the couple’s seventeenth anniversary, establishing an already experienced household.
Cast and creative team.
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy play Ben and Liz. Ernest Kinoy writes the central domestic material; his own Television Academy interview discusses writing the programme for the pair. Their real marriage is separate from the fictional Marriott family.
Where to begin.
The Grandfather Clock · Ben and Liz Spend the Weekend in Vermont
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
The leads’ stage experience gives ordinary discussion its rhythm. A disagreement can remain small in outward scale while revealing the balance between independence and partnership.
Listening appeal.
Try Grandfather Clock or Ben and Liz Spend a Weekend in Vermont. Each offers a separate household situation, with recurring family relationships providing background.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 24 public recordings. The twenty-four records are the available radio selection; radio and television dates should be distinguished. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
24 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
24 episodes available.
Questions about The Marriage.
Is the Marriott household a documentary of the actors’ private lives?
The actors perform scripted fictional characters.
Did the television version come first?
The radio programme preceded it.
