1942–1960 · NBC

People Are Funny

Art Linkletter and the stunt show that proved audiences would do anything.

Linkletter's stunt show is where a great deal of later television was invented: the ordinary person as content, the prize as motive, the producer's willingness to see how far someone would go. It ran on NBC radio from 1942, arrived on television in 1954, and for five years both versions were in production at once — the same idea, twice a week, in two media.

On radio

Radio from 1942

On television

Television from 19 September 1954

The overlap

Radio and television versions overlapped until 1959

4 recordings · Hollywood

AFRS transcriptions of People Are Funny held by the Internet Archive; the discs carry programme numbers rather than dates. Public domain (US network broadcast, copyright not renewed); no Creative Commons or non-commercial terms apply.