Back in 1974, there was an episode of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” starring Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison and Tony Randall as Felix Unger titled “The Big Broadcast” in which Oscar was given a live call-in sports talk show in New York City. Felix thought Oscar needed to separate the broadcast from similar gabfests so he convinced his roommate to do a live theater version about Babe Ruth that was a textbook version of over-the-top dramatization.
If you’ve seen the movie “The Babe” starring John Goodman, you would be forgiven if you believed writer John Fusco authored his screenplay using just that television episode as his research.