Murphy's Educated Chickens was a specialty act of some notoriety in the Weatherfield club circuit. Megan Morgan got started in the business as part of the act when she was a juvenile, but left to form her own act as she didn't get on with her female co-star. According to ventriloquist Charlie Bracewell, on one Sunday in Cleethorpes the co-star in question throttled the star chicken.
In July 1989, while trying to get bookings for a disappearing hamster act, Alec Gilroy promised a client that it was the best animal act since Murphy's Educated Chickens.
In August 1998, following his engagement to Rita Sullivan, Alec joked that he would ask Wally Murphy to be his best man, asserting that his Educated Chickens were the finest hen act that ever was, and who, in their prime, could have clucked Mendelssohn's Wedding March in unison.