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    Comedy TV Shows - 1950s 2 Mins Read

    Norby

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    13 x 30 minute episodes

    The small New York town of Pearl River (population 12,000) is the setting. It is here that Pearson Norby (David Wayne), the newly-elected vice president of small loans at the First National Bank, lives with his wife Helen (Joan Lorring) and their children Diane (Susan Hallaran) and Hank (Evan Elliott).

    Bobo (Jack Warden) and his wife Maureen (Maxine Stuart) are their neighbours.

    Pearson (his wife calls him “Pearce”, most others call him simply “Norby”) is an easy-going, kind-hearted man and stories relate the events in his life as he struggles to cope with the problems he encounters at home and at work.

    Other staff at the bank include the switchboard operator Wahleen Johnson (Janice Mars), Mr Rudge the bank efficiency expert (Ralph Dunn) who has the employees bring in their own fountain pens and ink to allay costs, and Maude Endless (Carol Veazie) the stuffy but kindly bank president.

    The biggest slacker at the bank is Oliver Wendell Prue (Lamont Johnson), the Vice President of the bank and nephew of Mrs Endless.

    Norby was the first weekly show in television history to be broadcast in colour from its inception (though very few viewers had colour sets in 1955). Perhaps the fact that the sponsor for the NBC show was Eastman Kodak had something to do with it.

    Pearson Norby
    David Wayne
    Helen Norby
    Joan Lorring
    Diane Norby
    Susan Hallaran
    Hank Norby
    Evan Elliott
    Wahleen Johnson
    Janice Mars
    Mr Rudge
    Ralph Dunn
    Maude Endless
    Carol Veazie
    Oliver Wendell Prue
    Lamont Johnson
    Bobo 
    Jack Warden
    Maureen 
    Maxine Stuart

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