[1] The change of time was due to longer working hours during World War II, thus enabling more people to listen.
When all was quiet at the end, Mrs Drusilla Doom (Hermione Gingold) would ask her husband (Alfred Marks) in a sepulchral voice - "Tea, Edmond ?"
Another regular feature of each show was a record of the life of "Old Ebenezer", a night watchman sitting in front of his brazier in a road where repairs were taking place.
Fantastic stories were recounted, after which Ebenezer would give way to his astonishment with his famous catch phrase, "Well I'll be jiggered!".
The singer Anne Shelton had her debut in 1940[citation needed] and Julie Andrews appeared with her mother and stepfather in 1947.