show was adapted and directed by British comedian Jeremy Engler. Satsuma & Pumpkin starred Bob Monkhouse OBE, and was also his very last work before he died. Monkhouse was a big fan of The Bickersons and The Baby Snooks Show. In the movie MASH, when Radar O'Reilly bugs Margaret Houlihan's tent as she and Frank Burns have a sexual encounter, Father Mulcahy (who has walked into the room while the others are listening) is told that the conversation (and noises) being listened to are a radio program. He asks if it is an episode of The Bickersons...until he realizes otherwise, and hastily leaves. In the Season 1 finale of NewsRadio, Dave and Lisa are called "the magnificent Bickersons" by Bill (at once a reference to the radio show and a play on the title of Orson Welles' 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons). Ameche and Welles shared the same hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the night of October 30, 1938, Welles made his legendary "War of the Worlds radio broadcast on the CBS network while Ameche hosted The Chase and Sanborn Hour on the Red Network of NBC. The Bickersons can be heard in the video game L.A. Noire, playing on the radio during driving sequences. The Bickersons inspired The Honeymooners and other television shows about couples. In episode 11 of season 6 of "Better Call Saul", Saul Goodman says to Walter White and Jesse Pinkman "Fellas, I was enjoying the Laurel & Hardy vibe, but I'm not such a fan of The Bickersons!" in response to White and Pinkman arguing with each other. Notes References Frank Buxton and Bill Owen, The Big Broadcast 1920–1950 (New York: Flare/Avon Books, 1971) John Crosby, Out of the Blue: A Book About Radio and Television (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952) Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998) Ben Ohmart, The Bickersons (BearManor Media, 2007), Philip Rapp, The Bickersons Scripts (BearManor Media, 2002), Philip Rapp, The Bickersons Scripts Vol. 2 (BearManor Media, 2004), External links The Bickersons official site Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs: The Bickersons List of recordings on discogs.com as by Ameche and Langford Audio OTR Network Library: The Bickersons (47 episodes) Botar.us Collection: The Bickersons (32 episodes) Radio programs about families 1940s American radio programs 1950s American radio programs 1946 radio programme debuts 1951 radio programme endings American comedy radio programs NBC