Click and Clack of ‘Car Talk’ - Two for the Road to a Toontown Sitcom on PBS - NYTimes.com

Television - Click and Clack of ‘Car Talk’ - Two for the Road to a Toontown Sitcom on PBS - NYTimes.com: "TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI, the brothers who’ve turned a call-in show about car trouble into a weekly highlight for National Public Radio listeners, have long seemed ripe for a television show.

Also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, these real-life owners of the Good News Garage in Cambridge, Mass., have built an empire around their freewheeling radio program, which offers on-the-fly diagnoses accompanied by bad puns and old-slacker shtick that belies their M.I.T. degrees.

Their show is broadcast on more than 600 stations, draws 4.3 million listeners, has a thriving Web site (cartalk.com) and publishing operation, and the brothers have their own syndicated newspaper column.

For years their popularity has prompted inquiries from television executives. Now, after more than three decades on the air, they have landed in an animated sitcom on PBS, “Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns.”"