Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dennis Day Show (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC)., Singer-comic begins a new series...
...does in the book. This means-and it is the measure of where Dickens suffers most-that Mr. Pickwick counts for much more than his gloriously Dickensian servant, Sam Weller. The trial scene, too, though it is made the climax of the evening, has been shorn of its full comic grandeur, with Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz's appearance in it all too brief. But Stiggins, the red-nosed parson, and Jingle and Mrs. Leo Hunter and many others have a proper share in the fun, and Mr. Young has contrived a sort of affectionate final roundup in the Fleet Prison...
During the thirties the Yard riots, nursed along with a liberal use of the cry, reached a new level of comic violence, and the police were often pinpointed with an assortment of water bombs, eggs, and soft fruit...
...show has paid off to the extent of five-year contract with sponsor Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. This summer, 34 U.S newspapers began running a new comic strip, using Dragnet's characters and atmosphere (but not its plots). By the firs of the year, Webb hopes to have a new show called Pete Kelly's Blues ready for TV. After his long life of crime, Jack Webb will star as a trumpet-blowing musician of the 1920s...
Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittel-holzer...