Radio serial, relying on white minstrelsy that came to early CBS television (1951–3) with African American actors Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams, before being driven from the air by NAACP protests. The show embodies problems of racial stereotypes that have continually plagued mass media, even in sympathetic portraits like the 1950s domestics of Beulah or the later black middle class of Julia and the Cosby Show. David Bianculli suggests it is not the content of the show itself that developed strong characters and broad slapstick, but the lack of a wider, varied context that made this singular representation so problematic. Issues of artistic ownership and control and audience also separate this world from African American humor of the 1990s.