Mr. and Mrs. Blandings

Cary Grant as Jim Blandings
Betsy Drake as Murial Blandings

Mr. and Mrs. Blandings was based on the novels Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dreamhouse and Blandings' Way by Eric Hodgins, and the popular movie from 2 years earlier with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy as Jim and Murial. For the radio program, Cary Grant returns as Jim Blandings, this time with his real world wife Betsy Drake playing Murial. Trouble with the scripts caused Cary and Betsy to leave the show, which continued with Robert Cummings and Jane Wyatt for a short time in the fall of 1951

This list contains the episodes I've found to date. First line of each entry contains the date (if known), an accepted title, and the sponsor.


11/08/50 First Show no sponsor
(No announcer intro)
Joan: Susan?
Susan: Yes, Joan?
Joan: Are you much older than I am?
Susan: 3 years.
 
2/25/51 Jim is On TV TWA
A hard days work in the life of Jim Blandings has a new rich reward -- his new home in Connecticut. A peaceful evening. In front of the fire with his wife Murial.
 
3/18/51 Going to Sell Home TWA
When Jim and Murial Blandings finally moved into their new home in the country, everything was ready. That's what the architect said, and the contractor, and the landscaper.
(low volume)
 
4/06/51 Twin Oaks Lodge TWA
It's spring in Connecticut. Spring. That magic season when every living thing is being born again. When birds are nesting, trees are budding, and all over the countryside flowers are peeping their tiny green shoots eagerly above the ground. Everywhere that is, except the Blandings.
 
4/29/51 Hiking with the Kids TWA
As you know, Jim and Murial Blandings always try to be good parents to their two children, Susan and Joan. They've read books on child care and attended lectures on child care.
(low volume)
 
5/3/51 Repairing the Barn TWA
And now let's take a trip to Landsdale, Connecticut, and look in on the Blandings family. It is early morning, everyone is asleep, and the day starts as it does in every other house with [sound of alarm clock]
 
?? Amateur Play no sponsor
There is probably an old saying that "he who sees a piece of wool lying arouynd better not pull it for he is apt to unravel a big ball of yarn."
 
?? Anniversary no sponsor
For some strange reason wives make a fetish of anniversaries -- all sorts of anniversaries. The first date, the first kiss, even the quarrel. But husbands are apt to forget these vital statistics.
 
?? Lilly Lamar (TWA commercial may have been edited out)
For every man there's one name for the past that will always strike a responsive chord. For some it's Dorothy. For others it's Lois.
 
?? Old Boy Friend TWA
They say "it's always fair weather when old friends get together." And that's generally true with Jim and Murial Blandings and their friend Bill Cole. (muddy open)
 


Robert Cummings replaces Cary Grant as Jim
Jane Wyatt replaces Betsy Drake as Muriel.
8/25/51 Anniversaty of Move-In no sponsor
Robert Cummings as Jim, Jane Wyatt as Muriel. Tonight Jim and Murial Blandings are going to have an anniversary dinner for it was one year ago this very evening that the Blandings first moved into their dreamhouse in Landsdale, Connecticut.
 


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Only 651 nails were injured in the making of this dreamhouse