The Big Story (1949)
The Big Story (1949)
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Plot.
Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States. Comments from the actual reporter open and close each show but the permanent narrator drives the plot line and a featured actor dramatizes the reporter's role.
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Sloane
Self - Narrator / Self - Announcer
Ernest Chappell
Self - Announcer / Announcer / Self - Narrator
James Dean
Rex Newman
Ben Grauer
Self - Narrator / Narrator / Self - Host
Burgess Meredith
Self - Narrator / Self - Host / Narrator
Norman Rose
Narrator / Self - Narrator
Bernard J. Prockter
Creator / Producer
Russell Hardie
J. Edgar Hoover / Chief Drago / Frank Winge
Wladimir Selinsky
Music
Nelson Olmsted
Alfred E. Clark / B.F. Sylvester / Bill Miller
George Mitchell
Nolen Bulloch / Police Chief / Police Lieutenant
Arnold Perl
Teleplay
John McLiam
Frank Harper / Hank Messick / Walter Bedford
Joseph Julian
Alex Bryant / Ben Tucker / Eddie
Lawrence Doheny
Director
James Dickey
Prosecutor / Writer
Details.
Release DateSeptember 16, 1949
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes1
Running Time30m
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
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Wiki.
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.