Penny Singleton as Blondie with co-star Arthur Lake playing Dagwood
Blondie is a radio situation comedy adapted from the long-run Blondie comic strip by Chic Young. The radio program was originally a summer replacement for The Eddie Cantor Show. However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, R.J. Reynolds’s Camel Cigarettes chose to keep Blondie on the air from 1939 to 1950 on several networks.
Vic and Sade rehearsal: from left: Art Van Harvey, Bernardine Flynn, Paul Rhymer and Bill Idelson
The radio program Vic and Sade was created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio (NBC/CBS) from 1932 to 1944, then heard intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957.
During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one of the most popular series of its kind, earning critical and popular success: according to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the majority of its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute episodes without a continuing storyline. The central characters, known as "radio’s home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van ), his wife Sade (Bernardine Flynn) and their adopted son Rush played by (Bill Idelson).
Mathers is best remembered for his classic role as a child on the CBS/ABC television show, Leave It To Beaver from 1957-1963. He made a PET milk commercial at the age of 2 and was also a model for a department store ad.
Jerry Mathers later became a successful banker and real estate investor and reentered the entertainment industry in 1978.
Whelchel is best known for portraying Blair Warner on The Facts of Life which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988. She was a Mousekeeter on The New Mickey Mouse Club. Her Christian album “All Because of You” earned her a Grammy Award Nomination for Best Inspirational Performance. She was a contestant on the twenty-fifth season of Survivor and came in 2nd place.