The Classic TV Archive - US Comedy Series
The Bickersons (Television Version)(1951)
aka "It's the Bickersons"
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
references:
TV Guide/ Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive
CBS (Tuesdays 9:30-10:00pm WCBS)
Based on the radio series
Produced by Philip Rapp
US Situation Comedy series Summer 1951 13 episodes x 30 min (05Jun51-28Aug51)
Starring:
Frances Langford as Blanche Bickerson
Lew Parker as John Bickerson
Premise /Background:
Incidents in the lives of Blanche and John Bickerson, a quarrelsome husband and wife.
"The Bickersons" started in 1946 on NBC Radio, and between 1947-51 on CBS Radio. The radio version
starred Frances Langford and Don Ameche.
Lew Parker (later familiar as That Girl's harried, slightly overbearing father Lew Marie) took the role of
John Bickerson, as he also did on radio a season earlier.
The Bickersons first appeared on the DuMont tv series "Star Time".
They were also featured on "The Steve Allen Show" and "Sid Caesar's Show of Shows" as well as "The Perry Como Show".
Don Ameche and Frances Langford's work together didn't end with "The Bickersons", either.
They co-hosted a variety series, "The Frances Langford - Don Ameche Show (ABC Daytime)(1951-52)"
https://www.justin.tv/midwesty/b/288191933
and featured among the few regular performers a very young Jack Lemmon, as a newlywed
in a sketch series known as "The Couple Next Door."