# If the radio drama was to return

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-radio-drama-was-to-return/820988>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 8, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-radio-drama-was-to-return/820988 "2018-09-08T01:24:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-radio-drama-was-to-return/820988/21 "2018-09-09T05:41:15Z")

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> [@Penfeather](#):
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> [Personally, I think the Dick Barton theme music should replace “Yakkety Sax” as the go-to sound track for people running about frantically.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eqX93umXo)

It usually was, before Benny Hill persuaded those ladies to charge around in their undies - but there was no point doing that on the radio (for that a simple reference to the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog Club was enough).

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**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-radio-drama-was-to-return/820988/22 "2018-09-09T08:24:31Z")

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> [@PatrickLondon](#):
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> It usually was, before Benny Hill persuaded those ladies to charge around in their undies - but there was no point doing that on the radio (for that a simple reference to the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog Club was enough).

Mitchell and Webb brilliantly reclaimed it for [The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM3mmNwhT9A&list=PL47EF93558184BE72):

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> On a lonely planet spinning its way toward damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver?

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