The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show else." Harris and Faye stayed with NBC rather than succumb to the CBS talent raids of the late 1940s that began when Benny was lured to CBS and took a few NBC stars (including George Burns and Gracie Allen) with him. NBC offered the couple (as well as Fred Allen) a lucrative new deal to stay, though occasionally Harris would allude to Benny's network switch on the Harris-Faye show. (Typically, Harris would crack an odd joke and then say, "I gotta give this one to Jackson! It might bring him back to NBC.") Despite the network conflict and a grueling
Ralph Pape York Times", reviewed the 1992 New York production of "Soap Opera", directed by Elizabeth Franzen: In 1983, "Say Goodnight, Gracie" was adapted by the author for a 90-minute teleplay which was seen on Chicago's PBS affiliate WTTW with the original Steppenwolf cast of Joan Allen, Jeff Perry, Glenne Headly, Francis Guinan and John Malkovich. Pape received a 1994 Emmy for his TV adaptation of "Say Goodnight, Gracie". "Girls We Have Known" was a runner-up in Actors Theatre of Louisville's Great American Play Contest. As a result, the theatre commissioned "Warm and Tender Love" and "Soap Opera". "Hearts Beating Faster" prompted