Paradoxically retaining the same name as the radio programme and set in a mocked-up radio studio in order to build on the image the group had built up through radio, the television shows were geared toward a more family audience than the live stage show. "The Grumbleweeds Radio Show" was produced by Johnny Hamp of "The Comedians" fame, who retained the fast-moving sketch format and upped it a little, with thirty or more sketches per half-hour episode, interspersed with impressions and a selection of regular characters from the radio series. Comedy script writer/editor Barry Faulkner, who had worked on most of the BBC and ITV comedy sketch shows of the time, was brought in and contributions accepted for appraisal from any budding or working writers on an ad hoc basis in the beginning with contracts being given to those who hit the right spot. Sketches were generally performed in the studio, using hand-drawn backdrops produced by Granada's in-house designer Len Hannibal.