Marx Brothers radio play re-enacted (early 1990's)

This is from a news broadcast in the early 1990's, when the BBC Radio was taping a pilot reenactment of the 1940's Marx Bros radio comedy, "Flywheel Shyster & Flywheel". The original featured only Groucho & Chico. The series was later picked up as a regular series, which lasted 25 episodes.

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Comedy

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• Marx
• Brothers
• Groucho
• Chico
• Bros
• CNN
• BBC
• Flywheel
• Shyster
• radio

[JoeChrisMorris]

At'sa fine!

[Guitarman5150]

I ah don'ta knowa 'bout this one boss. We will have to see. Hope-a-fully we bring a new fans to the brothers.

[MrTristo99]

I have a copy of these recordings! Very funny! And the guys do brilliant imitations.

[swordfish1929]

me too

[jazzgirl1920s]

I have a book with the scripts to the 26 episodes of the radio show. Over on my channel I uploaded an excerpt from one of the original radio broadcasts of the show. The show from May 22, 1933. Episode 26 of Flywheel Shyster and Flywheel.

[shakeyphil]

"Here Ravelli... sign this sanity clause."

"Hey-a boss I know der aint no Santy Claus."

[fromthesidelines]

So far, only two transcriptions of "Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel" episodes [from Esso's "FIVE STAR THEATER" series of 1932-'33, NBC] from 1933 are known to exist. Chico's daughter originally kept virtually the entire collection of those 26 episodes, but donated those 16 inch discs to an alumninum scrap drive during World War II...

[MissHarpoMarx]

Thank you!

I accualy found that web site like 2 months ago..lol

[wakkakumei]

Try googling 'Flywheel Shyster and Flywheel,' and look for a website called Internet Archive (page 1). The page should contain most of the episodes of the BBC Remake, plus a few sound bytes from the original series, with Groucho Marx as Michael Roberts as Waldorf T. Flywheel, and Chico Marx as Frank Lazarus as Emmanuel Ravelli, and not other way around. You can download 'em or listen to 'em there, your choice.

Of course, if you just want to listen to Lazarus and Michaels, you're on your own.

[PaulPaddickFan]

Sadly i dont live in the UK..XD

is there a way i can listend to it here in the good ol US of A?

XD