We had this up before, but all existing broadcasts of The Couple Next Door have since been deleted by YouTube and Internet Archive for copyright reasons.
Anyway, I had won a copy of a holiday episode compilation of the series, "Merry Mix-Ups", from fellow blogger Ivan Shreve a couple of years back, and that's when I posted the review, which I unfortunately had to delete.
Peg Lynch & Alan Bunce starred in what was a reboot of Lynch's earlier series, Ethel & Albert, to which she had lost the rights, hence a change in series title and character names. Character actress Margaret Hamilton ("The Wizard of Oz") was heard in some, if not all, episodes.
"Merry Mix-Ups" collects Christmas themed episodes over the course of the series' 2 year run (1957-9). Because the classic era of radio comedies and dramas was drawing to a close, Couple felt a little too generic, like a fair number of its contemporaries, and "Merry Mix-Ups" is a good example of this. I wish there were some samples still available, but not now. Maybe later.
Rating: B--.
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