Editing Beyond Our Ken (section)

===Series===
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! scope="col" |Series
! scope="col" |Start date
! scope="col" |Episodes
! scope="col" |Script
! scope="col" |Cast
! scope="col" |Music
! scope="col" |Producer
|-
| 1
| 1 July 1958
| 21 and a Christmas special
| [[Eric Merriman]] and [[Barry Took]]
| [[Kenneth Horne]], [[Kenneth Williams]], [[Hugh Paddick]], [[Betty Marsden]], [[Ron Moody]], [[Stanley Unwin (comedian)|Stanley Unwin]] (episodes 1 and 8). Announcer: [[Douglas Smith (broadcaster)|Douglas Smith]]
| Pat Lancaster, Malcolm Mitchell Trio (progs 1–16) [[Fraser Hayes Four]] (from episode 17), BBC Revue Orchestra, cond. [[Harry Rabinowitz]] and Paul Fenoulhet
| [[Jacques Brown]]; [[Charles Maxwell (radio producer)|Charles Maxwell]] (episodes 20 and 21 only)
|-
| 2
| 19 March 1959
| 20 and a Christmas special
| Merriman, Took
| Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden, [[Bill Pertwee]], Smith
| Lancaster, Fraser Hayes Four, BBC Revue Orchestra, Edwin Braden
| Brown
|-
| 3
| 19 April 1960
| 14
| Merriman
| Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden, Pertwee, Smith
| Lancaster, [[Jan Waters |Janet Waters]], Fraser Hayes Four, the Hornets, BBC Revue Orchestra, Braden 
| Brown
|-
| 4
| 20 October 1960
| 20
| Merriman
| Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden, Pertwee, Smith
| Waters, June Brown (episode 16), Fraser Hayes Four, the Hornets, BBC Revue Orchestra, Braden
| Brown
|-
| 5
| 12 October 1961
| 20
| Merriman
| Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden, Pertwee, Smith
| [[Jill Day]], Fraser Hayes Four, BBC Revue Orchestra, Braden
| Brown
|-
| 6
| 27 December 1962
| 12
| Merriman
| Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden, Pertwee, Smith
| Eileen Gourlay, Fraser Hayes Four, BBC Revue Orchestra, Braden
| John Simmonds
|-
| 7
| 24 November 1963
| 13
| Merriman
| Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden, Pertwee, Smith
| Gourlay, Fraser Hayes Four, BBC Revue Orchestra, Braden
| Simmonds
|}

In 1964 Merriman quarrelled with the BBC and refused to go on writing ''Beyond Our Ken''. The BBC proposed to continue without him, keeping Horne and the team together in a show provisionally titled ''It's Ken Again'', to be written by Took and his new writing partner, [[Marty Feldman]]. In the face of Merriman's furious objections, the new series went ahead, with the title changed to ''[[Round the Horne]]''. Merriman was further embittered when the new show surpassed the popularity and reputation of ''Beyond Our Ken'' and he never forgave Took. Horne's biographer Barry Johnston comments "If Kenneth Horne had retired from broadcasting after the final episode of ''Beyond Our Ken'', he would still have been remembered as the star of two of the most successful radio comedy series ever.{{refn|Before ''Beyond Our Ken'', Horne had co-starred in and co-written ''[[Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh]]''.<ref>Took, p. 49</ref>|group=n}} His place as one of the all-time greats of British comedy, however, is due to the extraordinary popularity of ''Round the Horne''."<ref>Johnston, pp. 298 and 301</ref> Nevertheless, in the words of the BBC, "While ''Beyond Our Ken'' might have been outshone by its successor, it shared much of the same DNA that made ''Round the Horne'' one of the greats".<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/beyondourken/ "Beyond Our Ken"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707052833/https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/beyondourken/ |date=7 July 2021 }}, BBC. Retrieved 21 March 2022</ref>