Editing Laurel and Hardy (section)

===Radio===
Laurel and Hardy made at least two audition recordings for radio: a half-hour NBC series based on the skit ''Driver's License'',<ref name="MaltinRadio">{{cite web |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Maltin |title=Laurel & Hardy Behind The Mike, Take Two |url=https://leonardmaltin.com/laurel-hardy-behind-the-mike-take-two/ |website=Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy |date=August 27, 2018 |access-date=January 13, 2022}}</ref> and a 1944 NBC pilot for ''The Laurel and Hardy Show'', casting Stan and Ollie in different occupations each episode. The surviving audition record, "Mr. Slater's Poultry Market," has Stan and Ollie as meat-market butchers mistaken for vicious gangsters.<ref>{{harvnb|MacGillivray|2009|pp=132–133}}</ref> A third attempt was commissioned by [[BBC Radio]] in 1953: ''Laurel and Hardy Go to the Moon'', a series of science-fiction comedies. A sample script was written by Tony Hawes and [[Denis Gifford]], and the comedians staged a read-through, which was not recorded. The team was forced to withdraw due to Hardy's declining health, and the project was abandoned.<ref>{{harvnb|MacGillivray|2009|pp=247–248}}</ref>