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Meet ‘I Love Lucy’s’ Summer Replacement! ‘My Little Margie’

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Meet ‘I Love Lucy’s’ Summer Replacement! ‘My Little Margie’

Remember this show’s theme song? I do, and you can hear it again and see a full episode of ‘My Little Margie’ here, starring Gail Storm and Charles Farrell. This is episode six of season two and first aired on 10/25/52.

‘My Little Margie’ premiered on CBS as the summer replacement for I Love Lucy on June 16, 1952, under the sponsorship of Philip Morris cigarettes (when the series moved to NBC for its third season in the fall of 1953, Scott Paper Company became its sponsor). In an unusual move, the series—with the same leads—aired original episodes on CBS Radio, concurrently with the TV broadcasts, from December 1952 through August 1955. As usual, this episode ends with the same line her dad, Vern Albright used at the end of each show…”Well, that’s my little Margie”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP3NpF_p3rI

Because that’s when the syndicated edition of the series was prepared; as previously mentioned, the original closing credits were seen with a Philip Morris pack in the background…they had to be refilmed, along with the credits seen during the 1953-’55 Scott Paper sponsorship {a box of Scotties on…

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8 responses to “Meet ‘I Love Lucy’s’ Summer Replacement! ‘My Little Margie’”

  1. Randy West

    “Oh Mahgee!”

  2. Pat Matteson

    I distinctly remember watching this show. How odd that this episode was aired on my third birthday. I remember watching Lucy and this show while “helping” grandma fold clothes on Monday evening!

  3. Wally Roper

    Very funny show for its time. Charles Farrel was quite the actor!

  4. Sheila Hamm Wills

    Ok, a shameless plug…….WATC, 57.2 is running My Little Margie, Mr. & Mrs. North, Ozzie & Harriet and a ton of other old programs each evening, Monday through Friday. We’re also running a group of old westerns and adventures we like to call CliffHangers on Saturday afternoons starting at 2:00 EDT. Great family programming!

  5. Tom Jurek

    Mr & Mrs North=Richard Denning & Barbara Britton – LOVED that.

  6. Val Ginter

    Such great music! Some of it was Capital Hi-Q…used in a lot of series.

  7. Val Ginter

    And Hitchcock! Sometimes we’d receive a Hitchcock with French soundtrack and Turkish subtitles. But sometimes instead of Hitchcock, we’d have a Mr. and Mrs. North (a “blast from the past”). The shows were “bicycled” from one station to another…so you never knew what you had.

  8. Tom Jurek

    I remember. Played into the ground on lots of independent tv stations in the 50’s because there was not much other stuff available. Kind of like Groucho, Whirlybirds, Rescue 8, Highway Patrol & Death Valley Days w/the old ranger.

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