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Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ) was a radio comedy programme, the predecessor to Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ).
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Tiring of his reduced status, he joined Kenneth Horne in Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), and its sequel, Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ).
He co-wrote Beyond Our Ken for two seasons ( 1958 – 1959 ) with Eric Merriman for BBC Radio before leaving after a disagreement with his fellow writer.
Ill health forced him to choose between commerce and show business after 1958, and, choosing the latter, he made two further popular radio series, Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ) and Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 )
After easing himself back into broadcasting as chairman of the radio panel game Twenty Questions, he began the second of his three major BBC radio series, Beyond Our Ken.
When Beyond Our Ken came to an end in 1964, the BBC commissioned a replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.
Editions of Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne are regularly broadcast on the digital radio service BBC 4 Extra.
There were parodies of popular British TV entertainers such as Eamonn Andrews (" Seamus Android ", played by Pertwee ), Simon Dee, Wilfred Pickles ( both played by Williams ), and " Daphne Whitethigh ", presumably based on journalist Katharine Whitehorn and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her Fanny Cradock take-off from Beyond Our Ken.
Another regular character, who had also first appeared in Beyond Our Ken, and who appeared in the script as " Dentures ", was Stanley Birkenshaw, played by Paddick and characterised as a man with ill-fitting false teeth who was utterly incapable of pronouncing the letter S without spraying saliva all over the set.
The special included the first and final episodes of Beyond Our Ken and Round The Horne in their entirety.
He is perhaps best known as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), its more famous successor Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ) and the short-lived Stop Messing About ( 1969 – 1970 ), where his ' BBC accent ' was used to comic effect.
Although earlier BBC radio shows such as Much Binding in the Marsh, Take It From Here and Beyond Our Ken had conditioned listeners to a mix of music, sketches and jokes within a 30 minute show, and Round the Horne was also doing this, ISIRTA ( as it was known to its friends ) accelerated the transitions, and it certainly seemed more improvised.
Beyond Our Ken featured characters similar to those later featured in Round the Horne, for instance Betty Marsden's Fanny Haddock ( which parodied Fanny Cradock ).
By 1964, Eric Merriman was very much in demand for television work and decided to end writing Beyond Our Ken.
Another notable radio show was the double entendre-laden Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ), a sequel to the earlier series Beyond Our Ken, which ran from 1959 to 1964.
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Two movies for Fritz Lang in 1956, While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, and two for Jacques Tourneur, Night of the Demon ( 1957 ) and The Fearmakers ( 1958 ), are well regarded.
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Most important, perhaps, was the rapid contraction of an inflated pulp market: Fantastic Adventures and Famous Fantastic Mysteries folded in 1953, Planet Stories, Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Beyond in 1955, Other Worlds and Science Fiction Quarterly in 1957, Imagination, Imaginative Tales, and Infinity in 1958.
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