page_title: Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
section_title: Episodes
hierarchical_section_title: Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel / Episodes
caption_attribution_description: English: A sample page from a January 23, 1933 typed manuscript of the 1932-33 NBC radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel that starred The Marx Brothers Groucho and Chico. Because the original 1930s US copyrights were not renewed, they expired. Mitgang, Herbert (1988-08-21). "Meet Flywheel &amp; Ravelli, Hucksters". New York Times. Retrieved on December 10, 2008. "Flywheel had fallen into the public domain."
context_page_description: Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a situation comedy radio show starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. The series was originally broadcast in the United States on the National Broadcasting Company's Blue Network beginning November 28, 1932, and ended May 22, 1933. Sponsored by the Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Louisiana and the Colonial Beacon Oil Company, it was the Monday night installment of the Five-Star Theater, an old-time radio variety series that offered a different program each weeknight. Episodes were broadcast live from NBC's WJZ station in New York City and later from a sound stage at RKO Pictures in Los Angeles, California, before returning to WJZ for the final episodes.
  The program depicts the misadventures of a small New York law firm, with Groucho as attorney Waldorf T. Flywheel and Chico as Flywheel's assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. The series was originally titled Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle, with Groucho's character named Waldorf T. Beagle, until a real lawyer from New York named Beagle contacted NBC and threatened to file a lawsuit unless the name was dropped.
context_section_description: Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel aired Monday nights at 7:30 p.m. on the NBC Blue Network to thirteen network affiliates in nine Eastern and Southern states. Twenty-six episodes were made, which were broadcast between November 28, 1932 and May 22, 1933. Each episode is introduced by the Blue Network announcer and features about fifteen minutes of drama and ten minutes of orchestral music between acts. The episodes end with Groucho and Chico – not in character, but as themselves – performing a 60-second skit promoting Esso and Essolube.
caption: A sample page from a January 23, 1933, typed manuscript of the 1932–33 NBC radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel that starred the Marx Brothers Groucho and Chico
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