Crazy Family Explained

Crazy Family
Format:serial
Runtime:15 mins
Start Time:7.45pm
End Time:8pm
Country:Australia
Language:English
Starring:George Edwards
Nell Stirling
Producer:George Edwards
Record Location:Sydney
First Aired:March 1939
Last Aired:1939
Sponsor:Woolworths

Crazy Family is a 1939 Australian radio series by Sumner Locke Elliott for the George Edwards Players. It was about the eccentric Bonnett family.[1]

Elliott appeared as a regular cast member in addition to writing episodes.

The series was sponsored by Woolworths which was unusual at the time. It appears to have been cancelled by April 1939.[2] The serial was replaced by Geoffry Hamlyn Tells, also sponsored by Woolworths.

Premise

"Concerns the erratic antics of the Bonnet family. Their peculiar traits of character and their hobbies make living with them even more complicated. Mrs. Bonnet gives music lessons, collects strays cats and proceeds through life in a delightfully vague blur. Her daughter Felicity, in between catching whales, brings home a new fiance practically every week. The son, Kevin, plays drums and takes delight in setting off fire-alarms in shops, and their old Uncle Elija plays with trains. The Bonnets also have two Swedish servants, Mr. and Mrs. Stradivarius, who have eleven children, all of whom come to live in the Bonnet mansion. Life, of course, is hectic and the action is swift and uproarious in comedy. The Bonnets are left a fortune and almost as suddenly it is almost robbed from them by the entrance of a forgotten relative. "

Cast

Notes and References

  1. News: 4MB RADIO FEATURES . . 21,014 . Queensland, Australia . 17 March 1939 . 20 February 2024 . 9 . National Library of Australia.
  2. News: 4MB RADIO NOTES . . 21,044 . Queensland, Australia . 22 April 1939 . 20 February 2024 . 8 . National Library of Australia.