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Blondie (1968 TV series)

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stars Patricia Harty and Will Hutchins as Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, a suburban couple raising two precocious children. Plots mixed typical sitcom tropes from home life and work life. The series is best remembered for its opening theme, which featured the comic strip characters in animated form
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Cast member Pamelyn Ferdin recalls the series was cancelled so abruptly that the cast was dismissed during the lunch break while an episode was being filmed.
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as the hapless mailman, always getting run over by Dagwood hurrying out the door, late for work.
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playing Cora Dithers. The series also featured the noted child character actress
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Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen
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Ferdin and Robbins would later reunite on the 1969 television special
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before transforming into the actors playing the characters.
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played Dagwood's boss Mr. Dithers, with his real-life wife
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by Carol Lynn Scherling. Albany, 2010. BearManor Media.
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as the Bumsteads' daughter, Cookie, and character actor
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Index


Sitcom
Blondie
Chic Young
Danny Simon
Norman Abbott
Peter Baldwin
Bruce Bilson
Gene Nelson
Patricia Harty
Will Hutchins
Peter Robbins
Pamelyn Ferdin
Jim Backus
Al Brodax
Kayro Productions
King Features Syndicate
CBS
Blondie (1957 TV series)
Blondie (comic strip)
sitcom
CBS
1968–69 television season
1957 TV series
comic strip of the same name
Patricia Harty
Will Hutchins
Jim Backus
Henny Backus
Pamelyn Ferdin

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