Comedy Archaeology

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Do you remember seeing an episode of Bewitched that guest starred comedian Red Skelton or </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Honeymooner's</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> story where Ralph and Alice adopt a puppy or the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Life with Lucy</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Christmas episode? If you answered no to these questions you are correct. Despite scripts or treatments being written for these shows none of the episodes were ever produced.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Comedy Archeology</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> not only includes descriptions of unproduced episodes of several classic situation comedies but also summarizes never-made comedy pilots and specials like 1975's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jack Benny's Special Special</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a proposed animated pilot called </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Manor House</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> featuring characters made famous by Jackie Gleason on his variety series and television host Steve Allen's proposed science fiction comedy </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Little Woman</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. The book also details many unmade comedy movies that would have starred the likes of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Road to India</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Road to the Fountain of Youth</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> John Belushi in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Noble Rot</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the four Marx Brothers in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Up Spoke the Captain</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and others.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Richard Irvin has written several books about television comedy including </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Forgotten Desi and Lucy TV Projects Spinning Laughter</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Forgotten Laughs</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - all from BearManor Media.</span></p><p><br></p>