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Richard Gump, a real-life San Francisco importer, became the prototype for Gregory Hood, serving also as a consultant whenever they get stuck on a bit of importing business. The artifacts found by Hoo...

John Dunning

Richard Gump, a real-life San Francisco importer, became the prototype for Gregory Hood, serving also as a consultant whenever they get stuck on a bit of importing business. The artifacts found by Hoo...

The head man was George W. Trendle, who by 1935 had The Lone Ranger well established and was looking for a Ranger derivative. This would not be a spinoff as such, except for the fact that the characte...

John Dunning

The head man was George W. Trendle, who by 1935 had The Lone Ranger well established and was looking for a Ranger derivative. This would not be a spinoff as such, except for the fact that the characte...

About Author
John Dunning may refer to:

John Dunning (businessman) (born 1934), British businessman, founder of Westmorland Motorway Services
John Dunning (detective fiction author) (1942–2023), American writer of detective fiction
John Dunning (true crime author) (1918–1990), true crime author
John Dunning (snooker player) (1927–2009), English professional snooker player
John Harry Dunning (1927–2009), British economist
John Dunning (film editor) (1916–1991), American film editor
John Dunning (film producer) (1927–2011), Canadian film producer
John R. Dunning (1907–1975), American physicist
Jack Dunning (John Angus Dunning, 1903–1971), New Zealand Test cricketer
John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton (1731–1783), English lawyer and politician
John Dunning (volleyball) (born 1950), American volleyball coach

Richard Durham was a black writer whose credits in radio would run a gamut from Irna Phillips serials to prestige plays for such as The CBS Radio Workshop. But in Destination Freedom Durham wrote from...

John Dunning

Richard Durham was a black writer whose credits in radio would run a gamut from Irna Phillips serials to prestige plays for such as The CBS Radio Workshop. But in Destination Freedom Durham wrote from...

GRANBY’S GREEN ACRES, situation comedy. BROADCAST HISTORY: July 3–Aug. 21, 1950, CBS. 30m, Mondays at 9:30. CAST: Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as John and Martha Granby, ex-bank teller and wife who m...

John Dunning

GRANBY’S GREEN ACRES, situation comedy. BROADCAST HISTORY: July 3–Aug. 21, 1950, CBS. 30m, Mondays at 9:30. CAST: Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as John and Martha Granby, ex-bank teller and wife who m...

From the beginning, hostilities between Colman and Oboler created an atmosphere of anger, which finally became untenable. The press knew little of this: even a Radio Life reporter, who attended a rehe...

John Dunning

From the beginning, hostilities between Colman and Oboler created an atmosphere of anger, which finally became untenable. The press knew little of this: even a Radio Life reporter, who attended a rehe...

Hawk Larabee was radio’s first half-hearted attempt at an adult western drama, a concept that was not fully realized until the arrival of Gunsmoke five years later.

John Dunning

Hawk Larabee was radio’s first half-hearted attempt at an adult western drama, a concept that was not fully realized until the arrival of Gunsmoke five years later.

The Gumps is also notable for giving Agnes Moorehead her first radio role.

John Dunning

The Gumps is also notable for giving Agnes Moorehead her first radio role.

For NBC’s grand opening on Nov. 15, 1926, the network was able to pull in the bands of George Olsen, Vincent Lopez, Ben Bernie, B. A. Rolfe, and Fred Waring from various locations. All were then natio...

John Dunning

For NBC’s grand opening on Nov. 15, 1926, the network was able to pull in the bands of George Olsen, Vincent Lopez, Ben Bernie, B. A. Rolfe, and Fred Waring from various locations. All were then natio...

The dates often lasted till early morning. Chaperones guided the winners home, leaving them only when they went their separate ways and the sponsor’s responsibility ended. But Cupid was not denied: at...

John Dunning

The dates often lasted till early morning. Chaperones guided the winners home, leaving them only when they went their separate ways and the sponsor’s responsibility ended. But Cupid was not denied: at...

The camaraderie of the trail was a constant. To Cisco, Pancho was Chico, and their allegiances were first and foremost to each other. Though Cisco would often scold his partner for stupidity, no other...

John Dunning

The camaraderie of the trail was a constant. To Cisco, Pancho was Chico, and their allegiances were first and foremost to each other. Though Cisco would often scold his partner for stupidity, no other...

You the listener into the shoes of some embattled hero. You are alone and unarmed in the green hell of the Caribbean jungle, you are being trailed by a pack of fiercely hungry dogs and a mad hunter ar...

John Dunning

You the listener into the shoes of some embattled hero. You are alone and unarmed in the green hell of the Caribbean jungle, you are being trailed by a pack of fiercely hungry dogs and a mad hunter ar...

The Casebook of Gregory Hood was in some ways an extension of Sherlock Holmes. Basil Rathbone had left his Holmes role, but the Holmes scripters, Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, continued their colla...

John Dunning

The Casebook of Gregory Hood was in some ways an extension of Sherlock Holmes. Basil Rathbone had left his Holmes role, but the Holmes scripters, Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, continued their colla...

CAST: Barry Fitzgerald as Judge Bernard Fitz of the Vincent County District Court. Bill Green as Sheriff McGrath, Vincent County’s own little Hitler, a frequent antagonist of the kind-hearted judge. B...

John Dunning

CAST: Barry Fitzgerald as Judge Bernard Fitz of the Vincent County District Court. Bill Green as Sheriff McGrath, Vincent County’s own little Hitler, a frequent antagonist of the kind-hearted judge. B...

It seemed the whole world loved Gracie: her wacky, innocent way with a quip, her ability to make the most ridiculous comment seem almost logical. She captured the nation’s affection in that first seas...

John Dunning

It seemed the whole world loved Gracie: her wacky, innocent way with a quip, her ability to make the most ridiculous comment seem almost logical. She captured the nation’s affection in that first seas...

CAST: Gertrude Berg as Bessie Glass, operator of a hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Joseph Greenwald (1935) as Barney Glass, her husband. Josef Buloff as Barney, 1953–54. WRITER: Gertrude Berg. House...

John Dunning

CAST: Gertrude Berg as Bessie Glass, operator of a hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Joseph Greenwald (1935) as Barney Glass, her husband. Josef Buloff as Barney, 1953–54. WRITER: Gertrude Berg. House...

The Four-Star Playhouse was developed for NBC, partly to help counter the CBS talent raid that had lured Jack Benny, Amos ’n’ Andy, and Edgar Bergen away from the older network. The NBC response was p...

John Dunning

The Four-Star Playhouse was developed for NBC, partly to help counter the CBS talent raid that had lured Jack Benny, Amos ’n’ Andy, and Edgar Bergen away from the older network. The NBC response was p...

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

John Dunning

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

Tags: photography, reading

Many of the staffers claimed to represent groups, with all their members voting for Edwards. Some of these votes were accepted, some rejected, some taken in part: if the caller claimed to be part of a...

John Dunning

Many of the staffers claimed to represent groups, with all their members voting for Edwards. Some of these votes were accepted, some rejected, some taken in part: if the caller claimed to be part of a...

Cloak and Dagger was lost in the summertime NBC schedule, lumped into a mystery block with several other shows of far inferior quality. It never attracted a sponsor and got almost no critical attentio...

John Dunning

Cloak and Dagger was lost in the summertime NBC schedule, lumped into a mystery block with several other shows of far inferior quality. It never attracted a sponsor and got almost no critical attentio...

But DeMille’s tenure came to an abrupt end in January 1945, in a political dispute with the American Federation of Radio Artists, the actors’ union. At issue was Proposition 12, a ballot proposal popu...

John Dunning

But DeMille’s tenure came to an abrupt end in January 1945, in a political dispute with the American Federation of Radio Artists, the actors’ union. At issue was Proposition 12, a ballot proposal popu...