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In a 1989 episode of the animated series Muppet Babies, entitled Comic Caper, Blondie and Dagwood make a cameo appearance. Blondie tells Dagwood that he is going to be late for work. As Dagwood rushes to the door, he knocks into the Muppet Babies, who have fallen into the world of the Blondie comic strip. Baby Kermit and Baby Piggy also ...
The Blondie film series is an American comedy film series based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young. The series featured Penny Singleton as Blondie Bumstead and Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead. Concurrently the film adventures were continued, with the same cast reprising their roles, in the Blondie radio series. [1]
Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip Blondie.He debuted in the first strip on September 8, 1930. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disowned when he married Blondie née Boopadoop, a flapper whom his family saw as below his class.
Blondie is the first of two television series based on the comic strip by Chic Young.The show first aired on January 4, 1957 on NBC and ran for one season. Pamela Britton starred in the title role and Arthur Lake played Blondie's husband Dagwood Bumstead, reprising his role from the Blondie film series.
In the summer of 1930, working in his studio in Great Neck, Long Island, Young created Blondie.When it debuted September 8, 1930, it quickly became the most popular comic strip in America, gaining even more readers when Blondie and Dagwood married in 1933, followed by the 1934 birth of Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander).
Mr. Dithers has a client, a land-developer, who wants to build a theater—and Dagwood's new hire develops a set of design blueprints for the project. Mr. Dithers returns, and argues with Dagwood, particularly over the hiring of the woman—refusing to even look at her design. Blondie arrives, defends the woman and her husband (Dagwood).
When Dagwood's boss at the architect firm, George Radcliffe, hears about the contract, he is ecstatic and offers Dagwood a modest raise of $2.50. When Dagwood immediately tell his wife Blondie the good news over the telephone, she mistakes the numbers and believes he has gotten a $250 raise.
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there’ll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood’s presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood’s luggage so that they’ll have to stay in town.