The Big Story
The Big Story was a radio and television crime anthology dramatizing real newspaper reporters and the stories they covered.
The Big Story is an American radio and television crime drama which dramatized the true stories of real-life newspaper reporters. The only continuing character was the narrator, Bob Sloane.
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The Big Story. Radio program.
Original schedule
- 1947–195110:00 PM ETNBC Radio Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1951–19529:30 PM ETNBC Radio Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1952–19549:30 PM ETNBC Radio Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1954–19559:30 PM ETNBC Radio Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
E
Ernest Chappell
Announcer
A
Al Ramsen
Cast
Alice Frost
Cast
Amzie Strickland
Cast
Bernard Grant
Cast
Berry Kroeger
Cast
Betty Garde
Cast
BBill Lipton
Cast
BBryna Raeburn
Cast
CCy Harrice
Cast
G
George O. Petrie
Cast
Grace Matthews
Cast
J
Joseph 'Joe' Latham
Cast
Robert Dryden
Cast
W
Ward Wilson
Cast
W
William 'Bill' Quinn
Cast
H
RHarry Ingram
Director
Robert Lewis Shayon
Director
T
Tom Victor
Director
M
Merrill Joels
Musician
V
RVladimir Selinsky
Musician
Robert Sloane
Narrator
B
ABernard Prockter
Producer
Arnold Perl
Writer
G
MGail Ingram
Writer
Max Ehrlich
Writer
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