FRED AND MAGGIE
Sir-I have read with interest the various comments passed on the halfhour show, Fred and Maggie, and I think it’s time I had a word myself. It seems to me that today we have too many thunder and lightning programmes, consisting mainly of American accents (not very well done) and suggestive situations. I feel, and I’m sure that every honest New Zealander will feel the same way, that Fred and Maggie are a welcome change from the lurid stories hashed up for our "entertainment." Fred and Maggie is ah honest .down to earth comedy about people’ like the folks next door and, if we would only admit it, ourselves, I agree that*the situations are exaggerated in some instances but only to make them even more funny than they really are. I recall that when Fred and Maggie came oyer to the Centennial Exhibition they were mobbed by cheering admirers, and if they come again people like "Thirty Not Out" and "J.K.B.F." would probably be down there chéering with the rest of them. Let me say that I know a lot of people who chuckle in private and jeer in public at that wonderful skit on married life: Fred and Maggie Everybody. bits ‘
BE
FAIR
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 5
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208FRED AND MAGGIE New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 5
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