Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel

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BBC Radio 7

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel

Comedy: Sitcoms

The Marx Brothers' lost radio shows recreated. Stars Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx.

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The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel: Series 1: Episode 3

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The shady lawyer's assistant gets kidnapped.

The shady lawyer's assistant gets kidnapped. The Marx Brothers' lost shows recreated. With Michael Roberts. From June 1990.

Flywheel's assistant Ravelli gets kidnapped, but will the shady lawyer pay the ransom?

Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were rediscovered in 1988. 

Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel ...... Michael Roberts 
Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravellias ...... Frank Lazarus

With Lorelei King and Graham Hoadly.

Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark Brisenden. 

Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. 

Producer: Dirk Maggs 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1990.

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel: Series 1

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