DATE WITH AN ANGEL
and THE BETTY WHITE SHOW
(approx. 60 min.)
This tape gives you a double dose of Betty White at her finest. In DATE WITH ANGEL, she plays news bride Vicki Angel in a domestic comedy, with Bill Williams as her insurance-salesman husband Gus.
In this episode, Betty gets offered a job at a department store.
After the series' cancellation, Betty White filled the same time slot with a comedy/variety show which only lasted a few months itself. This episode's skits revolve around lovers'jealousies.
MY HERO
& JACKSON & JILL
(approx. 60 min.)
Before Bob Cummings was the hip photographer on the LOVE THAT BOB series, he played the carefree real estate agent Robert S. Beanblossom on MY HERO.
His assistant Julie Marshall (played by Julie Bishop) was always trying to keep him out of trouble with his boss Willis Thackery (John Litel). This episode, which premiered November 8, 1952, is about Robert's efforts to get his boss inducted into the Exalted Order of Araby.
JACKSON & JILL might be a pilot episode of a 1950 comedy sitcom about a married couple with Helen Chapman as the wife and Todd Karns (Harry Bailey in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) as her henpecked husband. This episode is called IT'S A GIFT and it's strange, to say the least.
TROUBLE WITH FATHER VOL. One
(approx. 60 min.)
Originally called LIFE WITH THE ERWINS, this show first aired October 21, 1950, but, once syndicated, it became TROUBLE WITH FATHER.
Stu Erwin played himself, the folksy good natured bumbling principal of Hamilton High School. Most of the story revolves around the Erwin household, in which June Collyer is his wife June, and Sheila James (who nine years later was Zelda Conroy, the girl in love with Dobie Gillis) is their young daughter Jackie.
In the first episode, Stu is at an auction bidding for the love seat he sold by accident.
This show has the original General Mills commercials, in which an actress claims to be Betty Crocker, plus a great pre-Cheerios kid commercial. A wonderful segment!
The second show revolves around the family wondering what to do with the bonus that Stu got at school. Stu buys into a dress store and begins a price war with the competing dress store across the street.
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(approx. 60 min.)
This tape gives you a double dose of Betty White at her finest. In DATE WITH ANGEL, she plays news bride Vicki Angel in a domestic comedy, with Bill Williams as her insurance-salesman husband Gus.
(approx. 60 min.)
Before Bob Cummings was the hip photographer on the LOVE THAT BOB series, he played the carefree real estate agent Robert S. Beanblossom on MY HERO.
(approx. 60 min.)
Originally called LIFE WITH THE ERWINS, this show first aired October 21, 1950, but, once syndicated, it became TROUBLE WITH FATHER.