Blondie's first video album was produced in conjunction with the record "Eat to the Beat", featuring a music video for each of the album's twelve songs. It was the first such project in rock music. Most of the songs were filmed in and around New York, the exception was the "Union City Blue" music video, which was filmed at Union Dry Dock, Weehawken, New Jersey. Each video was directed by David Mallet and produced by Paul Flattery. The video was initially available as a promotional VHS in 1979 and subsequently released on videocassette and videodisk in October 1980.
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Το CBGB ήταν ένα κλαμπ της Νέας Υόρκης, ιδιοκτησία του Χίλι Κρίσταλ, το οποίο έμεινε στην ιστορία αφού εκεί μέσα γεννήθηκε η πανκ και η ανεξάρτητη ροκ μουσική. Όταν ο Κρίσταλ συνάντησε δυσκολίες να κλείσει κάντρι μπάντες για το μαγαζί του, άνοιξε τις πόρτες σε όλα τα είδη της ροκ. Είχε μονάχα μια απαίτηση από όλους όσους έπαιζαν: να παίζουν δικά του, αυθεντικά τραγούδια κι όχι διασκευές. Στηρίζοντας όλες τις μπάντες με κάθε κόστος, ο Χίλι Κρίσταλ άφησε ιστορία ως «νονός» συγκροτημάτων, όπως οι Blondie, Television, Ramones, Talking Heads, Dead Boys και The Police.
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
The story behind Blondie's album Parallel Lines, which sold 16 million copies and captured the spirit of 1970s New York at a time of poverty, crime and an exploding artistic life.
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
This was a "Musikladen Extra" special from Bremen TV, West Germany from 1978. It was originally released on DVD by Pioneer Artists/EME as The Best Of Musikladen-Live: Blondie. Track List: 1. X-Offender; 2. Little Girl Lies; 3. Look Good in Blue; 4. Man Overboard; 5. In the Flesh; 6. I'm on E; 7. Love at the Pier; 8. I Didn't Have the Nerve; 9. Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45); 10. Kidnapper; 11. Youth Nabbed as Sniper.