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They reworked their fibber-man, Uncle Luke, named him Uncle Luke Gray, and moved him into a store that would be called Smackout, at the junction known as The Crossroads of the Air. The series opened u...
These shows have all been in circulation more than 20 years. Since then: almost nothing. Connoisseurs of the Hollywood run generally disdain the New York shows as inferior product. But as William Faul...
The pairing of Dick Haymes (who had made his name as a popular singer) and George Fenneman (one of radio’s smoothest announcers) as actors in an adventure series was unusual. As Crane, Haymes played a...
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...
Report on the Weans (Nov. 11, 1956) was novelist Robert Nathan’s wise and whimsical look at what archaeologists of the distant future might deduce, wrongly, about our way of life. And 1489 Words (Feb....
On radio, the character’s name was Michael Waring. Each show began with a telephone ringing. It was always a woman calling. Waring, whose smooth voice was laced with a hint of the British, usually add...
MR. AND MRS. NORTH, mystery melodrama, based on the novels by Frances and Richard Lockridge.
It should have run that summer of 1947 and disappeared, if the track records of other such programs are indicative. It came late in radio’s history, a fact that may have contributed in a strange way t...
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...
And like any good newspaper, the show had severe critics. It was damned left and right. Real newsmen condemned it for hamming up the news. Communists called it fascistic. William Randolph Hearst label...
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...
It was Striker, most agree, who came up with the ideas of the silver bullets and the silver shoes for the great stallion. It was Striker who at least pointed the way toward the Ranger’s famous call, H...
In fact, she was Hildegarde Loretta Sell of Milwaukee, Wisc. Her persona was almost total fiction, concocted with the aid of her friend and agent, Anna Sosenko. Sosenko was relentless in promoting her...
In another incident of show-must-go-onsmanship, DeMille was transported to the theater in an ambulance. He was recovering from surgery, and was said to be performing against doctor’s orders. He spoke...
Hildegarde was a singer of uncertain nationality, the product of an intense publicity campaign to give her a deliberate international flavor. As her Current Biography entry noted, she was known as the...
HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, western adventure. BROADCAST HISTORY: (Originated on TV: Sept. 14, 1957–Sept. 21, 1963, CBS.) Radio: Nov. 23, 1958–Nov. 27, 1960, CBS. 30m, Sundays at 6. Multiple sponsorship. C...
Guedel had set out to be a writer but had been frustrated by rejections. He had worked for Hal Roach on some of the Laurel and Hardy and Little Rascals film shorts, and had gravitated into radio. Link...
Gang Busters was the noisiest show on the air. The sharp blast of a policeman’s whistle. Shuffling feet. Gunshots. A broken window. The stark metallic voice of a burglar alarm, and the forlorn answer...
For several months McNeill wrote out his scripts by twisting news events into cornball humor. He wore out two jokebooks in the hunt for fresh material. Then the show passed a plateau: about three mont...