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Peg once received an award with Alan Bunce for “Best Situation Comedy Team of the Year” which read, misspelled, in big gold letters: “To Peg Lunch and Alan Dunce.” So much for fame, she said.
Jul 27, 2015 · Peg Lynch, who wrote and starred in “Ethel and Albert,” one of television’s earliest situation comedies, died on Friday at her home in Becket, Mass. She was 98. Her daughter, Astrid King,...
Peg Lynch as Ethel and Alan Bunce as Albert continued to do television commercials after The Couple Next Door ended its run. They also revived Ethel and Albert on NBC’s radio’s Monitor Comedy Time (1963-64), airing six four-minute sketches each weekend.
Meet Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce. “Ethel and Albert, “as they were known in a previous show called. It began on a small Minnesota radio station, went national, and ran from 1944 to 1950. Hardly any episodes survive. The series was revived in 1957 and ran three more years.
Peg Lynch was the first woman to create, write, star in, and solely own a sitcom series. Her show Ethel and Albert enjoyed a long and enormously successful run on radio and, beginning in 1944, television.
Jul 20, 2022 · What if I told you there was a woman who in the early days of television wrote 11,000 scripts, and starred in her own TV network hit sitcom for six years and no one has ever heard of her? Meet Peg Lynch. This is a remarkable true story you will not believe. More podcasts at WAVE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/artist/wave-podcast-network/1437831426
When I first put up this page, I’d discovered the work of Peg Lynch & Alan Bunce. I was delighted by her radio sitcom, The Couple Next Door - she wrote and starred in it - and decided to capture the snippets of library music used by the show in its 1958 - 1960 run.
