Editing Jimmy Edwards (section)

===Radio and television===
Edwards was a feature of London theatre in post-war years, debuting at London's [[Windmill Theatre]] in 1946 and on BBC radio the same year. His early variety act, where he first used the name Professor Jimmy Edwards, was described by [[Roy Hudd]] as being "a mixture of university lecture, [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] slang, the playing of various loud wind instruments and old-fashioned attack".<ref>Roy Hudd & Philip Hindin, ''Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts: A Who Was Who of Light Entertainment 1945–60'', Robson Books, 1997, pp. 50–51.</ref> Edwards was in the ''London Laughs''<ref>{{cite web |title=guidetomusicaltheatre.com |url=http://guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_l/londonlaughs.htm |website=guidetomusicaltheatre.com |access-date=February 15, 2022}}</ref> revue at the Adelphi Theatre, London from 12 April 1952 to 6 February 1954 with [[Tony Hancock]] and [[Vera Lynn]]. He had previously performed in the [[Cambridge Footlights]] revue. He gained wider exposure as a radio performer in ''[[Take It From Here]]'', co-starring [[Dick Bentley]], which first paired his writer [[Frank Muir]] with Bentley's script writer, [[Denis Norden]]. Also on radio he featured in ''Jim the Great'' and ''My Wildest Dream''.

He appeared in ''[[Whack-O]]'' on television, also written by Muir and Norden, and the radio panel game ''[[Does the Team Think?]]'', a series which Edwards created. In 1960 a film of ''Whack-O'' called ''[[Bottoms Up (1960 film)|Bottoms Up]]'' was written by [[Michael Pertwee]] with additional dialogue by Muir and Norden. On TV he appeared in ''[[The Seven Faces of Jim]]'', ''Six More Faces of Jim'' and ''More Faces of Jim''; ''[[Make Room for Daddy]]'', ''[[Sykes (TV series)|Sykes]]'', ''Bold As Brass'', ''I Object'', ''John Jorrocks Esq'', ''The Auction Game'', ''[[Jokers Wild (TV series)|Jokers Wild]]'', ''[[Sir Yellow]]'', ''[[Doctor in the House (TV series)|Doctor in the House]]'', ''[[Charley's Aunt]]'', ''[[Brendon Chase]]'' and ''Oh! Sir James!'' (which he also wrote).

He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1958 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at the BBC's Piccadilly 1 Studio.

Edwards starred in ''The Fossett Saga'' in 1969 as James Fossett, an ambitious Victorian writer of [[penny dreadful]]s, with [[Sam Kydd]] playing Herbert Quince, his unpaid manservant, and [[June Whitfield]] playing music-hall singer Millie Goswick. This was shown on Fridays at 20:30 on [[London Weekend Television|LWT]]; David Freeman was the creator.