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Life With The Lyons

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Comedy with real-life American family: Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels and kids Richard and Barbara

Comedy starring real-life American family - Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels and their children Richard and Barbara

Life With the Lyons

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Sinister foreign agents and mistaken identities spark further discombobulation.

Sinister foreign agents and mistaken identities spark further discombobulation. Stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. From February 1958.

Sinister foreign agents and a case of mistaken identity sparks more Lyon family discombobulation.

Starring real-life American family: Ben Lyon and his wife Bebe Daniels and their children, Barbara and Richard. 

With Doris Rogers as Florrie, Molly Weir as Aggie, Hugh Morton, Wilfred Babbage and Charles Hawtrey. 

Life With the Lyons was one the BBC's most popular radio sitcoms between1950 and 1961. It was also adapted for BBC TV. 

Written by Bebe Daniels, Bob Block and Ronnie Hanbury. 

BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet. 

Producer: Tom Ronald 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1958.

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