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Blondie Old Time Radio

30 minute comedy sitcom

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Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake

Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake

Blondie first started as a newspaper comic strip in 1930, created by Chic Young. The franchise moved to a series of success B movies starting in 1938. Finally Blondie moved to the radio in 1939, and ran until 1950. The two stars Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake first appeared as Blondie and Dagwood in the movies, then on the Bob Hope Show in 1938, and made the successful transition to the radio program.

This is just a fun suburban slapstick comedy show. Dagwood Bumpstead is improbably married to the lovely and level-headed Blondie. The Bumpstead family consists of Dagwood, Blondie, their son Alexander, and later on their baby Cookie. Dagwood works for J.C. Dithers Construction Company as a lowly accountant, and his relationship with his overbearing boss is the a setup for many of the antics in the show. The program reminds me of a precursor to I Love Lucy and the Flintstones. in which Dagwood gets himself into bizarre and comical situations and Blondie manages to save the day.

Arthur Lake (Dagwood) loved the part, and would have been happy if he could be Dagwood forever – at 11 years, that's almost forever in Hollywood terms. Penny Singleton who portrayed Blondie from 1939 to the mid 1940s does a good job of converting a comic strip character to a three dimensional persona. Blondie was later played by Patricia Van Cleve. Hanley Stafford played his demanding boss, Dithers (Stafford also played “Daddy” on the Baby Snooks show). The Bumpstead's neighbor was played by Harold Peary (of The Great Gildersleeve fame).

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Episode List:
1939-08-07 - 006) Blondie and the Hunter.mp3
1939-10-30 - 018) Dagwood Buys A New Suit.mp3
1939-11-06 - 019) Uncle Gideon & Aunt Bessie.mp3
1939-12-25 - 026) Scrooge.mp3
1940-04-01 - 040) April Fool's Day.mp3
1940-04-15 - 042) Jack & the Beanstalk.mp3
1940-04-22 - 043) The Gypsy Queen.mp3
1940-05-13 - 046) The Entertainment Committee.mp3
1943-10-11 - 210) The Vacant Lot.mp3
1943-12-27 - 221) Drive In The Country.mp3
1944-03-02 - Abbott & Costello with Blondie & Dagwood.mp3
1944-04-17 - 237) Mr. Dithers Gets Out Of The Hospital.mp3
1944-06-12 - 245) Dagwood Suspected As Bank Robber.mp3
1944-06-19 - 246) Dagwood Has A Dream.mp3
1944-06-19 - 246) Fly Worth 2000.mp3
1944-06-26 - 247) Alexander Bored With Life.mp3
1944-06-26 - 247) Baby Snooks Visits.mp3
1944-07-21 - 248) Plumbing Problems.mp3
1944-08-18 - 253) The Poker Game.mp3
1944-09-17 - 260) Dagwood Gets Amnesialets.mp3
1944-10-08 - 263) Baby Snooks Visits The Bumsteads.mp3
1944-10-15 - 264) Photo Of Prowler.mp3
1945-02-25 - 283) The Poet.mp3
1945-03-11 - 285) Dagwood Wins Office Prize.mp3
1945-05-27 - 296) Socialite Blondie.mp3
1947-07-27 - 409) Three Weeks Vacation.mp3
1948-10-03 - Circus Outing.mp3
1948-11-03 - 475) Alexander's Scandal Sheet.mp3
1948-11-17 - 477) Swindles & Shinanigans.mp3
1948-12-15 - 481) Christmas Show.mp3
1949-02-09 - 489) Alexander's Valentines Day Dilemma.mp3
1949-03-09 - 493) Dagwood Raises Chickens While Blondie's Away.mp3
1949-12-30 - 012) In Paris with Mr. & Mrs. Dithers.mp3
1950-01-05 - 013) ArabIn Love With Blondie.mp3
1950-01-12 - 014) Will Blondie Marry A Middle Easterner.mp3
1950-02-16 - 019) Alexander The Actor.mp3
1952-01-06 - Dagwood Loses Dithers 5000.mp3

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