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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Blondie! - The original Radio Show</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/blondie-the-original-radio-show--6087484</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>. However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m.<br /><br />Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m. Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(radio_series)#cite_note-v-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[2]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(radio_series)#cite_note-3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[3]</a> In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(radio_series)#cite_note-4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[4]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/6087484/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Comedy</category><copyright>Copyright Radio Shows of the Past!</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg</url><title>Blondie! - The original Radio Show</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/blondie-the-original-radio-show--6087484</link></image><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 15:02:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Bart Smith</itunes:name><itunes:email>bart.smith@worldgroupmedia.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>. However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m.<br /><br />Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m. Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(radio_series)#cite_note-v-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[2]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(radio_series)#cite_note-3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[3]</a> In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(radio_series)#cite_note-4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[4]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Comedy"/><itunes:category text="Fiction"><itunes:category text="Comedy Fiction"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="TV &amp; Film"><itunes:category text="Film History"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>da2e9bf4-6b39-5f6c-8c85-b3b9c9e6249b</podcast:guid><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>Storm In A Teacup</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/storm-in-a-teacup--58652410</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652410</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:09:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652410/bdstorminateacup.mp3" length="8357635" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/897a3632-83c9-4bf7-96d8-ef9a8f536519/897a3632-83c9-4bf7-96d8-ef9a8f536519.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/897a3632-83c9-4bf7-96d8-ef9a8f536519/897a3632-83c9-4bf7-96d8-ef9a8f536519.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1393</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>34</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Contract Problems</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/contract-problems--58652409</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652409</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:08:50 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652409/bdcontractproblems.mp3" length="3669282" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/73559219-0eae-4b94-b20b-fa361bc6fb48/73559219-0eae-4b94-b20b-fa361bc6fb48.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/73559219-0eae-4b94-b20b-fa361bc6fb48/73559219-0eae-4b94-b20b-fa361bc6fb48.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1835</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>33</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>blondie Promo W Robert Benchley</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/blondie-promo-w-robert-benchley--58652407</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652407</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:08:29 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652407/bdblondiepromowrobertbenchley.mp3" length="1033490" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/d925717f-ecff-4312-976a-488a5d13f163/d925717f-ecff-4312-976a-488a5d13f163.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>258</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>32</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Dagwood Raises Chickens While Blondies Away</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dagwood-raises-chickens-while-blondies-away--58652406</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652406</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:08:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652406/bddagwoodraiseschickenswhileblondiesaway.mp3" length="6165804" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/1a3dc5d5-1049-4647-9f0c-bb323f9d3f7f/1a3dc5d5-1049-4647-9f0c-bb323f9d3f7f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1542</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>31</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Drive ride In The Country</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/drive-ride-in-the-country--58652405</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652405</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:07:37 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652405/bddriverideinthecountry.mp3" length="9007300" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/654a034a-660f-4d8a-920b-f6e64b201a2c/654a034a-660f-4d8a-920b-f6e64b201a2c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/654a034a-660f-4d8a-920b-f6e64b201a2c/654a034a-660f-4d8a-920b-f6e64b201a2c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1502</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>30</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Bd Fly Worth 2000</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/bd-fly-worth-2000--58652408</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652408</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:07:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652408/bdflyworth2000.mp3" length="4731499" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/be4c35d4-a9be-4c2a-b252-f74c00301d6b/be4c35d4-a9be-4c2a-b252-f74c00301d6b.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/be4c35d4-a9be-4c2a-b252-f74c00301d6b/be4c35d4-a9be-4c2a-b252-f74c00301d6b.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1578</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>29</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Will Blondie Marry A Middle Easterner</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/will-blondie-marry-a-middle-easterner--58652363</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652363</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:32 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652363/bd1950_01_13willblondiemarryamiddleeasterner.mp3" length="6658056" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/6fa7b9f6-8333-435d-9eb9-8a0464728dfa/6fa7b9f6-8333-435d-9eb9-8a0464728dfa.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1665</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>28</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Swindles Shinanigans new Car</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/swindles-shinanigans-new-car--58652362</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652362</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652362/bd1948_11_17swindlesshinanigansnewcar.mp3" length="5960910" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a5e7b538-2780-46ff-add1-c835ce02b490/a5e7b538-2780-46ff-add1-c835ce02b490.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a5e7b538-2780-46ff-add1-c835ce02b490/a5e7b538-2780-46ff-add1-c835ce02b490.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a5e7b538-2780-46ff-add1-c835ce02b490/a5e7b538-2780-46ff-add1-c835ce02b490.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1498</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>27</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Arab In Love With Blondie</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/arab-in-love-with-blondie--58652361</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652361</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:38 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652361/bd1950_01_06arabinlovewithblondie.mp3" length="5966333" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1492</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>26</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Three Weeks Vacation</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/three-weeks-vacation--58652360</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652360</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:12 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652360/bd1947_07_27threeweeksvacation.mp3" length="7180087" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/b2e7ead5-bbaf-425f-a325-94f4d6ac6a8c/b2e7ead5-bbaf-425f-a325-94f4d6ac6a8c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/b2e7ead5-bbaf-425f-a325-94f4d6ac6a8c/b2e7ead5-bbaf-425f-a325-94f4d6ac6a8c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1795</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>25</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Christmas Show</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/christmas-show--58652359</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652359</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:59:49 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652359/bd1948_12_15christmasshow.mp3" length="8287888" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1382</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>24</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Alexanders Scandal Sheet the Tattle tale Alt Poor</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/alexanders-scandal-sheet-the-tattle-tale-alt-poor--58652358</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652358</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:59:23 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652358/bd1948_11_03alexandersscandalsheetthetattletalealtpoor.mp3" length="7429817" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1858</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>23</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Circus Outing</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/circus-outing--58652357</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652357</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:58:45 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652357/bd1948003circusouting.mp3" length="3251166" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1626</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>22</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Alexanders Scandal Sheet the Tattle tale</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/alexanders-scandal-sheet-the-tattle-tale--58652356</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652356</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:57:35 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652356/bd1948_11_03alexandersscandalsheetthetattletale.mp3" length="4589160" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1530</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Alexanders Valentines Day Dilemma</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/alexanders-valentines-day-dilemma--58652355</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652355</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:57:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652355/bd1949_02_09alexandersvalentinesdaydilemma.mp3" length="3410612" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1706</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Paris W Mr.Mrs.Dithers</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/paris-w-mr-mrs-dithers--58652354</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652354</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:56:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652354/bd1949incinpariswmr_mrs_dithers.mp3" length="6963166" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1741</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Socialite Blondie social Aspirations</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/socialite-blondie-social-aspirations--58652353</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58652353</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:55:32 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58652353/bd1945_05_27socialiteblondiesocialaspirations.mp3" length="5609919" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1870</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Dagwood Wins Office Prize dagwood Wins A Ring</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dagwood-wins-office-prize-dagwood-wins-a-ring--58650597</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650597</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:41:44 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650597/bd1945_03_11dagwoodwinsofficeprizedagwoodwinsaring.mp3" length="5714111" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1429</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Poet</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-poet--58650596</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650596</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:40:55 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650596/bd1945_02_25afrsrebroadcastthepoet.mp3" length="3758093" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1879</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>16</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Photo Of Prowler feud Over Tools</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/photo-of-prowler-feud-over-tools--58650595</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650595</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:40:23 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650595/bd1944_10_15afrsrebroadcastanythinggoesphotoofprowlerfeudovertools.mp3" length="6270352" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1568</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>15</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Baby Snooks Visits The Bumsteads</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/baby-snooks-visits-the-bumsteads--58650594</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650594</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:39:50 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650594/bd1944_10_08babysnooksvisitsthebumsteads.mp3" length="3586996" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1794</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>14</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Dagwood Gets Amnesia</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dagwood-gets-amnesia--58650593</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650593</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:39:20 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650593/bd1944_09_17afrsdagwoodgetsamnesialetsfallinloveanythinggoes.mp3" length="5653120" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1885</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>13</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Poker Game Lets Fall In Love anything Goes</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-poker-game-lets-fall-in-love-anything-goes--58650592</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650592</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:38:48 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650592/bd1944_08_18afrsthepokergameletsfallinloveanythinggoes.mp3" length="7065059" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1766</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Plumbing Problems</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/plumbing-problems--58650591</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650591</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:38:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650591/bd1944_07_21plumbingproblems.mp3" length="3596304" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1799</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Baby Snooks Visits-Alexander Bored With Life</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/baby-snooks-visits-alexander-bored-with-life--58650590</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650590</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:37:37 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650590/bd1944_06_26039bafrsrebroadcastbabysnooksvisits_alexanderboredwithlife.mp3" length="5380300" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1802</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Abbott Costello W Blondie Dagwood</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/abbott-costello-w-blondie-dagwood--58650148</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650148</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:16:35 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650148/bd1944_03_02abbottcostellowblondiedagwood.mp3" length="6769480" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1701</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Vacant Lot</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-vacant-lot--58650147</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650147</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:16:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650147/bd1943thevacantlot.mp3" length="7675891" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1919</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mr.Dithers Gets Out Of The Hospital</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-dithers-gets-out-of-the-hospital--58650146</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br />Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650146</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:15:35 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650146/bd1944_04_17mr_dithersgetsoutofthehospital.mp3" length="6082698" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br />Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1521</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Entertainment Committee</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-entertainment-committee--58650145</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650145</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:15:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650145/bd1940_05_13046theentertainmentcommittee.mp3" length="3557632" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1779</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Gypsy Queen</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-gypsy-queen--58650144</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650144</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:14:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650144/bd1940_04_22043thegypsyqueen.mp3" length="7221601" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1784</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Jack The Beanstalk</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/jack-the-beanstalk--58650143</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650143</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:14:20 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650143/bd1940_04_15042jackthebeanstalk.mp3" length="3571776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1786</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>April Fools Day</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/april-fools-day--58650142</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650142</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:13:55 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650142/bd1940_04_01040aprilfoolsday.mp3" length="3556144" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1778</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Scrooge</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/scrooge--58650141</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650141</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:13:32 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650141/bd1939_12_25scrooge.mp3" length="6621934" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1664</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Uncle Gideon Aunt Bessie</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/uncle-gideon-aunt-bessie--58650140</link><description><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58650140</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:13:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58650140/bd1939_11_06019unclegideonauntbessie.mp3" length="3584224" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Bart Smith</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film). The film was a box office success and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1938, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake were cast in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia Pictures</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1938_film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blondie</a></i>. The film was a box office success and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long-running film series</a> went into production, lasting until 1950 and featuring twenty-eight feature films. As part of the promotion for the first film, Singleton and Lake appeared as Blondie and Dagwood on the December 20, 1938 episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Pepsodent Show</a></i> radio program, which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob Hope</a>.The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS</a> as a summer replacement for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Eddie Cantor Show</a></i>.<br /><br />However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J._Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">R.J. Reynolds</a>' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camel cigarettes</a> chose to keep <i>Blondie</i> on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22N-R-O-G_super_suds_housecleaning_week%22_-_NARA_-_515093.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>Super Suds WWII advertisementIn 1944, <i>Blondie</i> was on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Blue_Network" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NBC Blue Network</a>, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate-Palmolive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Colgate-Palmolive</a>'s Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with <i>Blondie'</i>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 7:30 p.m.<br /><br /> Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.Early in 1949, Colgate executive Bob Healy notified Singleton that the company desired "a different interpretation of the character", and an agency began auditioning actresses to be the new Blondie. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Rutherford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ann Rutherford</a> replaced her as the voice of Blondie. In October 1949, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Lake</a>, the real life wife of Arthur Lake took the role. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice White</a> was also heard as radio's Blondie.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1792</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02c1a2d999099ac4f32f4f07da9df2ec.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
