Roadhouse Vacant
N announcement that the guiding spirit of Radio Roadhouse, Barry Linehan, is to follow his star in Australia next year, indicates that the current series is the last. It is, then, an opportune time to pay tribute to the only successful comedy show New Zealand radio has fathered. In three years Radio Roadhouse has developed from a kind of camp concert, with echoes of BBC sessions, to a lively, sophisticated show with a genuinely Kiwi flavour, which has won an army of faithful listeners. Despite weak spots, inevitable perhaps, with one man writing all the scripts, the proportion of bull’s-eyes has been remarkably high. Radio Roadhouse stands so firmly on its own feet now that comparisons with overseas progtammes are irrelevant. It has proved that a first-class radio comedy feature can be produced here, winning acceptance by all save the stubbornly humourless types who regard the Dad-and-Hori jokes as insults to the Maori race. The gifts of Noeline Pritchard, Mervyn Smith, Athol Coats, Eddie Hegan,
Crombie Murdoch and the Stardusters have all helped to establish Radio Roadhouse; but the main credit goes to Barry Linehan, notion-man, _ scriptwriter and leading comedian. It is a thousand pities that there is not enough scope in New Zealand for his talents. His distinctive personality will be sadly missed on Wednesday nights next year.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 18
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221Roadhouse Vacant New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 18
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