1956. However, the show continued on CBS radio, starting in 1957, with The Couple Next Door as its new title. Lynch and Bunce continued in the title roles, and Lynch remained as the show's sole writer. The Couple Next Door had a three-year run in a 15-minute five-day-a-week format, ending in 1960. AT&T brought the couple back in a 1961 instructional semi-animated video called Mr. Digit and the Battle of Bubbling Brook that focused on all-numeric dialing. Ethel and Albert enjoyed revivals in 1963–64 on NBC Radio's Monitor with Bunce as Albert and in National Public Radio's Earplay in 1973. In 1975-76 Lynch wrote and starred in The Little Things in Life for Radio Playhouse with Bob Dryden in the role of Albert. Six episodes of Ethel and Albert were adapted by Granada Television in Manchester, England, in 1979, titled Chintz and with a British cast. Private life Lynch married Odd Knut Ronning (1918-2014), a Norwegian pulp and paper engineer in Manhattan on August 12, 1948. The couple had a daughter, Astrid Ronning King, who was also a writer and married to composer Denis King. Lynch lived in Becket, Massachusetts, and continued to write, revisiting the characters of Ethel and Albert as a couple in their nineties. She died on July 24, 2015, in Becket at the age of 98, following a sudden and unexplained decline in health. References External links Guide to the Peg Lynch papers and scripts at the University of Oregon Photos from the set of Ethel and Albert 1916 births 2015 deaths Actresses from Nebraska American comedy writers American television actresses Writers from Lincoln, Nebraska University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni 20th-century American actresses Actors from Lincoln, Nebraska People from Dodge County, Minnesota 21st-century American women