NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR 1970

NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR 1970.

Rounding out our week of TV inspired paper doll sets is one that wasn't exactly groundbreaking yet still a fun memory, Nanny and the Professor. Inspired by the success of Disney's Mary Poppins with a little bit of Bewitched thrown in this cute sitcom starred Juliet Mills, older sister of Disney star Hayley Mills, as a slightly magical housekeeper and nanny to a widowed college professor and his three young children. 

It's Halloween Week next week and I've got some holiday inspired paper dolls and crafts lined up for posting!

 

JULIA 1968

JULIA 1968.

A groundbreaking TV show in many ways when it premiered in 1968 JULIA starred the amazing Diahann Carroll as a nurse and single mother, the first time an African American woman had been depicted as anything other than a servant on television. Although criticized at the time for being unrealistic and sidestepping the hot button political issues of the civil rights movement, this show is nevertheless still regarded as a step forward in inclusivity in media.

All of that aside this set which features Julia, her cute son Corey, her neighbor Marie and her son Earl J. Waggedorn, has some really nice late 1960's fashions and hats.    

 

THAT GIRL 1966

 

That Girl Background Left Side

That Girl Background Right Side

THAT GIRL 1966.

This week I will be posting paper doll sets that tied-in with popular TV shows from the 1960's and 70's.

THAT GIRL starring Marlo Thomas was a groundbreaking show in many ways disguised as a silly half hour sitcom. Funny to think now that a show about a young woman living on her own in New York City and making her own way in the world could have been so controversial. The norm at that time was for a girl to stay living with her parents until she married. I can remember newspaper articles back then that focused on her character's "virtue" as if being independent made her a loose woman! 

All that aside this is a very nicely drawn three doll set with period appropriate outfits.

 I've added a bi-fold background to pose the dolls in front of.

More 1960's TV coming tomorrow!

BLONDIE TV

Blondie TV Background Left Side.

Blondie TV Background Right Side.

BLONDIE TV.

The Blondie characters appeared in a popular film series between 1938 and 1950 starring Arthur Lake as Dagwood and Penny Singleton as Blondie. Lake reprised his role in a short lived TV series in 1954. In 1968 another attempt at a TV version of Blondie was made which by all accounts failed miserably. Only 16 episodes were filmed and only 14 of those aired. This paper doll set is pretty much all that remains of that effort and you will notice that it reuses body shapes from other sets of the 1950s and 60s. Still it is pretty cute and I have created a bi-fold background that you can pose the dolls in front of.

Next week I will be posting other sets that were merchandised to accompany TV shows of the 1960s and 70's.