One-half of the wisecracking "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers" who held forth on cars and many other things on NPR's long-running series, the Magliozzis were plucked from their Cambridge (our fair city), MA garage to the air by WBUR in Boston and then, after some appearances on other NPR programs, became a weekend fixture for many listeners--first-run episodes ended in 2012 and one wonders if the weekly repackages will continue to be broadcast now that Tom is dead (along with Sirius XM Public Radio's daily reruns):
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77 Although the Magliozzis had a syndicated newspaper column, they were unable to transfer their popularity to television--the live-action "George Wendt Show" on CBS in 1995, where he played a character similar to the brothers, and the animated "Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns" on PBS in 2008, with the boys providing their own voices (and musical star Kelli O'Hara as producer "Nina Totenbag") were both unsuccessful. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
