Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Due in part to Webb's fondness for the medium, Dragnet persisted on radio until 1957 (the last two seasons were repeats), making it one of the last old time radio shows to give way to television's growing popularity. A total of 314 original episodes were broadcast from 1949 to 1957.
Dragnet, the radio series, premiered on NBC on June 3, 1949, and ended on February 26, 1957. A set of 314 original episodes aired between June 1949 and September 1955 with ".22 Rifle For Christmas" and "The Big Little Jesus" usually re-run during Christmas time. [1] Re-runs were broadcast from the end of September 1955 to February 1957.
Gunsmoke is an American western radio series, which was developed for radio by John Meston and Norman Macdonnell. The series ran for nine seasons and was broadcast by CBS . [ 1 ] The first episode of the series originally aired in the United States on April 26, 1952, [ 2 ] and the final first-run episode aired on June 11, 1961. [ 3 ]
John Dunning wrote that, among radio drama enthusiasts, "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." [1] It ran unsponsored for its first few years, with CBS funding its production. In 1955, the series was adapted for television and ran for 20 seasons.
In 1939, he began working in radio at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas. [1] Later, he became an announcer and actor at WLW radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. [2] Moody was a regular on radio broadcasts of Gunsmoke [3] and Dragnet, [4] and also performed on the Roy Rogers Show [5] and Wild Bill Hickok. [6] He portrayed Gramps on The Trouble with the Truitts on ...
Howard Culver (June 4, 1918 – August 4, 1984) was an American radio and television actor, best known as hotel clerk Howie Uzzell during the entire run of TV's Gunsmoke. On radio he starred in the title role of the Western adventure series Straight Arrow , which aired on Mutual from May 6, 1948 to June 21, 1951.
The Radio: Vocal Varieties article noted, "In three years, her latex voice has supplied radio with 150 different characters on some 2,500 broadcasts." [ 7 ] Programs on which she was heard included The Dreft Star Playhouse , [ 6 ] Dragnet , [ 8 ] The Woman in My House , [ 9 ] : 358 Pete Kelly's Blues , [ 9 ] : 269 Dr. Paul , [ 9 ] : 101 The ...
Harry Alfred Bartell (November 29, 1913 – February 26, 2004) [1] was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film.With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the end of network radio drama in the 1960s.