‘Hey Blondie!’ Dagwood, Blondie, Mr. Dithers and a victimized postman return for a stab at a TV revival of the 1940s series from Chic Young’s never-ending comic strip. It’s not bad, with Arthur Lake clowning up a storm and Pamela Britton a charming new embodiment of a character who began as ‘Blondie Boopadoop.’ It’s the entire one-season series.
Blondie The Complete 1957 Television Series
DVD
ClassicFlix
1957 / B&W / 1:33 TV aperture / 26 x 30 min. / Street Date September 25, 2018 / 39.99
Starring: Arthur Lake, Pamela Britton, Stuffy Singer, Florenz Ames, Ann Barnes, Harold Peary, Hollis Irving, Elvia Allman, Lucien Littlefield.
Cinematography: Lothrop B. Wort
Original Music: Mahlon Merrick
Written by John L. Greene, George Beck, George Carleton Brown, Jo Conway, Frank Gill Jr., Gordon T. Hughes, Don Nelson, Jay Sommers, Warren Spector from characters created by Chic Young
Produced by William Harmon
Directed by Hal Yates, Paul Landres, Gerald Freedman
Chic Young’s...
Blondie The Complete 1957 Television Series
DVD
ClassicFlix
1957 / B&W / 1:33 TV aperture / 26 x 30 min. / Street Date September 25, 2018 / 39.99
Starring: Arthur Lake, Pamela Britton, Stuffy Singer, Florenz Ames, Ann Barnes, Harold Peary, Hollis Irving, Elvia Allman, Lucien Littlefield.
Cinematography: Lothrop B. Wort
Original Music: Mahlon Merrick
Written by John L. Greene, George Beck, George Carleton Brown, Jo Conway, Frank Gill Jr., Gordon T. Hughes, Don Nelson, Jay Sommers, Warren Spector from characters created by Chic Young
Produced by William Harmon
Directed by Hal Yates, Paul Landres, Gerald Freedman
Chic Young’s...
- 11/13/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Bare shops redo of 'Green Acres'
Veteran TV helmer Richard L. Bare, who directed all 168 episodes of CBS' 1960s sitcom Green Acres, said he has acquired the rights to remake the series for TV from the widow of Acres creator Jay Sommers.
Bare is hoping that the classic TV series will appeal to the networks which are short of original material as the writers strike continues. Bare calls his timing going out with Acres during the writers strike "coincidental" but said that it helps his chances.
"Studios are going to be searching for properties that have been written and ready to go into production without upsetting WGA in any way," he said.
Bare said he already has a pilot written by veteran scribe William Justice Forbes that takes place a month after the 1971 finale of the series, which starred Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a New York attorney and his wife who try to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville.
Bare is hoping that the classic TV series will appeal to the networks which are short of original material as the writers strike continues. Bare calls his timing going out with Acres during the writers strike "coincidental" but said that it helps his chances.
"Studios are going to be searching for properties that have been written and ready to go into production without upsetting WGA in any way," he said.
Bare said he already has a pilot written by veteran scribe William Justice Forbes that takes place a month after the 1971 finale of the series, which starred Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a New York attorney and his wife who try to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville.
- 11/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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