The Bickersons was a radio comedy sketch series that began in 1946 on NBC, moving the following year to CBS where it continued until 1951.

As transcribed by John Crosby, this was a typical Bickersons exchange:

The Bickersons were barely ready for prime time radio ( they lasted only two full seasons ) as it was, but a 1951 CBS television version didn't last half as long.

With the Rapp family approval, an adapted version of The Bickersons was written for a comedy puppet show, Breakfast with the Bickersons, premiering at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Monkhouse was a big fan of The Bickersons and The Baby Snooks Show.

* The Naggers: Routines with Gordie Tapp and Roni Stoneman as LaVern and Ida Lee Nagger, a backwoods bickering couple, inspired in part by the radio comedy The Bickersons.

Thomas first reached mass audiences on network radio in the 1940s playing shifty brother-in-law Amos in The Bickersons, which began as sketches on the music-comedy show Drene Time, co-hosted by Don Ameche and Frances Langford.

But The Bickersons might also have helped marriage by showing, maybe too vividly, what not to do and how not to do it.

( It should have been hinted at the outset by Marvin Miller's atypical introduction: " The Bickersons — have not retired.

But neither did the twosome abandon the characters that made them famous as a comedy team in the first place: Columbia Records eventually released long-playing albums — The Bickersons, The Bickersons Fight Back, and The Bickersons Rematch — that featured newly-recorded performances of Rapp's adapted radio scripts by Ameche and Langford as John and Blanche.

In the Season 1 finale of NewsRadio, Dave and Lisa are called " the magnificent Bickersons " by Bill ( at once a reference to the radio show and a play on the title of Orson Welles ' 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons ).

* The Bickersons by Ben Ohmart

Following his appearances as announcer and sketch participant on The Edgar Bergen / Charlie McCarthy Show, he achieved memorable success during the late 1940s playing opposite Frances Langford in The Bickersons, the Philip Rapp radio comedy series about a combative married couple.

* Philip Rapp, The Bickersons Scripts ( BearManor Media, 2002.

* Philip Rapp, The Bickersons Scripts Vol. 2 ( BearManor Media, 2004.

The Bickersons seemed to have no business being married at all, but they proved the prototype for such battling comic couples as Ralph and Alice Kramden of The Honeymooners ( surely, Jackie Gleason, who admired the show, owed a debt to The Bickersons as a partial model for blustery Ralph and acid Alice ; writer Rapp, according to fellow comedy writer Irving Brecher, once tried unsuccessfully to sue Gleason over some of the similarities ), Nels and Harriet Oleson of Little House on the Prairie, and — much later, perhaps the closest of them all to the Blanche-and-John prototype — Al and Peg Bundy of Married ... with Children.

The Kramdens, Olesons, Bundys and others who followed may have made The Bickersons seem tame.

The title couple of the long-running newspaper comic strip The Lockhorns also bear more than a passing resemblance to the Bickersons.

Based on the popular radio show, The Bickersons, Gleason wanted a realistic portrayal of life for a poor husband and wife living in Brooklyn.

After another musical number and a commercial spot for Drene Shampoo, Miller would announce Ameche and Langford as the Bickersons, " in ' The Honeymoon's Over '," for the final 15 minutes of the show.

In the movie MASH, when Radar O ' Reilly bugs Margaret Houlihan's tent as she and Frank Burns have a sexual encounter, Father Mulcahy mistakes their conversation ( and noises ) for an episode of The Bickersons, until he realizes otherwise.

She then teamed with Don Ameche for the ABC television program, The Frances Langford / Don Ameche Show ( 1951 ), a spin-off of their successful radio series The Bickersons in which the duo played a feuding married couple.

Upon the change to all-sports, WEEI featured the Andy Moes show and Glenn ( Ordway ) and Janet ( Prensky ), a short-lived experiment in bringing a " Bickersons "- type format to sports radio.

: The Bickersons ... have retired.

At the time The Bickersons bowed, the typical radio marriage conveyed almost exclusively sweetness and light, no matter what ephemeral disaster might befall.

Jackie Gleason probably knew that Christmas exchange — drawing as did the Bickersons episode on O. Henry's " The Gift of the Magi ," a " classic 39 " Christmas episode of The Honeymooners involved blustery bus driver Ralph hocking his brand-new bowling ball in a mad dash to get Alice a last-minute Christmas gift ... only to learn the hard way that Alice bought him a stylish new bowling ball bag.

Premiering as a summer season replacement, the television version of The Bickersons lasted only 13 episodes.

Ameche and Langford's work together didn't end with The Bickersons, either.

The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.

`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

We also know that the Saxon Shore as reflected in the Notitia was created as a part of the Theodosian reorganization of Britain ( post A.D. 369 ).

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

A titre personnel and a special office was created in the Ministry of the Interior to plan and to conduct the elections.

the granular texture thus created likewise called attention to the reality of the surface and was effective over much larger areas.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

The value of products from these industries was 15.8 billion dollars, of which about one-third was created by manufacturing processes.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.

for he was created not exactly immortal, nor yet exactly mortal, but capable of immortality as well as of mortality.

Man was created with the capacity for immortality, but the devil's promise of immortality in exchange for disobedience cost Adam his immortality.

Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was intended to be part of the process of time.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

Since the organization was created thirteen years ago, it is obvious that this is not the original company ; ;

That kind of poverty was regarded as the exclusive property of the East, which created depressions with their stock markets and their congested populations and their greedy centralization of industries, protected by discriminatory freight rates.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.

In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, " conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base.