The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0490 Wednesday, 16 March 2005
From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 15 Mar 2005 13:20:19 -0500
Subject: 16.0478 Shakespeare Reference?
Comment: Re: SHK 16.0478 Shakespeare Reference?
>Amos was "a rather minor character, the philosophical
>cabdriver who narrated most of the episodes." Andy "was the most
>gullible of the lodge members, a husky, well-meaning, but rather simple
>soul."
This was true of the TV series. But in the original radio show A&A were
about equal and the principal characters, played by Freeman Gosden and
Charles Correll (two White men). The characters might have been based
on Tambo and Bones.
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