A live
CBS Television version aired beginning on September 22, 1952, but was short-lived. Naish, Reed, Gilbert, and Shipp all reprised their radio characters on the television show. Although it enjoyed high ratings, the show was pulled because of pressure from the Italian-American community. CBS tried to respond to advertisers' concerns by tinkering with the characters, the writing, and replacing Naish, Reed and Gilbert with
Vito Scotti,
Thomas Gomez, and
Muriel Landers respectively, but the revised show was unsuccessful and was cancelled within weeks. ==References==