Easy Aces

Easy Aces was a long-running (1930-1945) 15-minute situation comedy starring writer and critic Goodman Ace and his wife Jane as a married couple. Scripted by Goodman Ace, the show focused on low-key domestic situations involving the Aces and their friends, neighbors, and relative. Jane played a slightly ditzy, sometimes trying, occasionally infuriating character and Ace, as he was called on the show, responded with patience that spiraled into exasperation.

A hallmark of the show was Jane's mutilation of the language. Goodman Ace peppered the scripts with wry puns and absurd malapropisms such as "Time wounds all heels" and "You could have knocked me down with a fender."

Many episodes survive because Goodman Ace, who owned the rights to the show, had the foresight to record almost all the episodes. The show was revived in a half-hour format in 1948, but lasted only a season. An attempt to migrate it to television in 1949 was similarly unsuccessful.

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Series description provided by Frank Bell.