53
classic broadcasts of Blondie
21 classic broadcasts
Gasoline Alley
857 more bonus classic Old Time
Radio Shows
ALL KNOWN EPISODES TO EXIST.
Don't be fooled by other
collections that claim to contain more episodes. Many of these shows
were aired on multiple dates in reruns, so you have plenty of
sellers out there padding their collections with reruns!
We feature all known episodes in existence and do not add
"fluff" to our collections to increase our claimed episode count
like many others.
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collection is all in MP3 format supplied on DVD. You play
this in your computer and then can copy all the MP3 files to
your MP3 player of choice. This DVD will NOT play in a
regular CD player in your car, or your TV's DVD player, it is
intended for your computer only which will allow you to transfer
the MP3 files to any device that can play MP3's. This collection remains the
largest most original collection on ebay.
Blondie:
Blondie is a radio situation comedy adapted
from the long-run Blondie comic strip by Chic Young. The radio
program had a long run on several networks from 1939 to 1950.
After Penny Singleton was cast in the title role of the feature
film Blondie (1938), co-starring with Arthur Lake as Dagwood
(the first in a series of 28 produced by Columbia Pictures); she
and Lake repeated their roles December 20, 1938, on The
Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope. The appearance with Hope led
to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on CBS as a summer
replacement for The Eddie Cantor Show. However, Cantor did not
return in the fall, so the sponsor, R.J. Reynolds' Camel
Cigarettes chose to keep Blondie on the air Mondays at 7:30pm.
Camel remained the sponsor through the early World War II years
until June 26, 1944.
Super Suds WWII advertisement.
In 1944, Blondie was on the NBC Blue Network, sponsored by
Colgate-Palmolive's Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7pm from July
21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped
with Blondie's return to CBS on Sundays at 8pm from August 13,
1944, to September 26, 1948, still sponsored by Super Suds.
Beginning in mid-1945, the 30-minute program was heard Mondays
at 7:30pm. Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show
moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8pm from October 6, 1948, to June
29, 1949.
When Penny Singleton left the radio series in the mid-1940s,
Patricia Lake, the former Patricia Van Cleeve, replaced her as
the voice of Blondie for the remaining five years of the show,
opposite her real-life husband Arthur Lake. Ann Rutherford and
Alice White were also heard as radio's Blondie. In 1954,
Lake also co-starred with her husband in an early television
sitcom he created called Meet the Family.
In its final season, the series was on ABC as a Sustaining
Program from October 6, 1949, to July 6, 1950, first airing
Thursdays at 8pm and then (from May) 8:30pm. The radio show
ended the same year as the Blondie film series (1938–50).
Others in the cast: Leone Ledoux (Alexander and Cookie Bumstead),
Tommy Cook (Alexander as of May 1943), Larry Sims (Alexander as
of Summer 1946), Jeffrey Silver (Alexander by 1949), Marlene
Aames (Cookie by 1946), Norma Jean Nilsson (Cookie in 1947),
Joan Rae (Cookie after 1947), Hanley Stafford (J.C. Dithers),
Elvia Allman (Mrs. Dithers), Frank Nelson and Harold Peary (Herb
Woodley), Arthur Q. Bryan and Harry Lang (Mr. Fuddle), Dix Davis
(Alvin Fuddle), Mary Jane Croft (Harriet), Veola Vonn and Lurene
Tuttle (Dimples Wilson). Harry Lubin, Billy Artz and Lou Kosloff
supplied the music.
Gasoline
Alley:
Gasoline Alley was
an American radio sitcom based on the popularity of the
newspaper comic strip Gasoline Alley by Frank King. It
first aired in 1931 under the name "Uncle Walt and
Skeezix".
In February 17, 1941 the show returned on NBC Radio
under the name "Gasoline Alley", with almost the same
cast. Unusual at the time, it was a literal transfer of
the storyline that had appeared in the comics pages that
very same morning. This version ended on May 9, 1941.
The syndicated series of 1948–49 featured a cast of Bill
Lipton, Mason Adams and Robert Dryden. Sponsored by
Autolite, the program used opening theme music by the
Polka Dots, a harmonica group. The 15-minute episodes
focused on Skeezix running a gas station and garage, the
Wallet and Bobble Garage, with his partner, Wilmer
Bobble. In New York, this series aired on WOR from July
16, 1948 to January 7, 1949.
And more
Bonus Radio Shows:
As a sampler of our old
time radio library, we are including these
classic old time radio shows on this DVD-ROM at no extra charge:
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Betty & Bob |
Caltex Theater |
Choose A Song Partner |
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Big Jon & Sparkie |
Canticle for Leibowitz |
Concert Hall |
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Big Sister |
Carson Robinson |
Congo Curt |
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Big Story |
Carter Brown |
Connee Boswell |
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Big Town |
Casebook of Gregory Hood |
Groucho Marx |
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Biggest Heart |
Charlie Lung |
Hackleberry Hotel |
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Bright Star |
Cheloni Skin Program |
Halls of Ivy |
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Bulldog Drummond |
Chevrolet Program |
Johnny Desmond Follies |
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Burl Ives |
The Chevrolet Program of Musical Moments |
Kenneth Williams |
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Caldwell and Pollard |
Chief Grey Wolf's Teepee |
Lady Esther Presents |
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California Melodies |
Children's Story |
Laurel and Hardy |
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Call Back the Past |
Chiquita |
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