''Crazy Family'' is a 1939 Australian radio series by

Sumner Locke Elliott Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsi ...

for the George Edwards Players. It was about the eccentric Bonnett family. Elliott appeared as a regular cast member in addition to writing episodes. The series was sponsored by Woolworths which was unusual at the time. It appears to have been cancelled by April 1939. The serial was replaced by ''

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'', also sponsored by Woolworths.

Premise

"Concerns the erratic antics of the Bonnet family. Their peculiar traits of character and their hobbies make living with them even more complicated. Mrs. Bonnet gives music lessons, collects strays cats and proceeds through life in a delightfully vague blur. Her daughter Felicity, in between catching whales, brings home a new fiance practically every week. The son, Kevin, plays drums and takes delight in setting off fire-alarms in shops, and their old Uncle Elija plays with trains. The Bonnets also have two Swedish servants, Mr. and Mrs. Stradivarius, who have eleven children, all of whom come to live in the Bonnet mansion. Life, of course, is hectic and the action is swift and uproarious in comedy. The Bonnets are left a fortune and almost as suddenly it is almost robbed from them by the entrance of a forgotten relative. "

Cast

* George Edwards as Mr. Stradivarius *

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as Clodda *Sumner Locke Elliott as Kevin Bonnet

References

{{Sumner Locke Elliott 1930s Australian radio series 1939 Australian radio dramas Radio plays by Sumner Locke Elliott