DVD 10103 THE BOB & RAY SHOW

TV 1951 - Bob Elliott (father of Chris Elliot, grandfather of SNL’s Abby Elliot) and Ray Goulding were an American comedy team whose career spanned five decades. Their format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as though it were a serious broadcast. In the early 1950s, the two had their own 15-minute television series, entitled simply Bob & Ray. It began November 26, 1951 on with Audrey Meadows as a cast regular. (During the second season, the title changed to Club Embassy, and Cloris Leachman joined the cast as a regular, replacing Audrey Meadows who left the series to join the cast of "The Jackie Gleason Show" on ). In the soap opera parodies, the actresses took the roles of Mary Backstage and Linda Lovely. Expanding to a half-hour for the summer of 1952 only, the series continued until September 28, 1953.  This disc contains  four 15 minute episodes in black and white, recorded from a Comedy Channel rebroadcast  in 1989.