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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.
Original Release
09/16/1949 on NBC
US Release
09/16/1949
Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Sloane | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator / Himself - Announcer |
Ernest Chappell | Himself - Announcer / Self - Announcer / Himself - Narrator |
Ben Grauer | Himself - Narrator / Himself - Host |
Burgess Meredith | Himself - Narrator / Himself - Host / Narrator |
Norman Rose | |
Russell Hardie | J. Edgar Hoover / Chief Drago / Frazer / Marshall Morgan / Sidney Hackett / William J. Miller |
Nelson Olmsted | Alfred E. Clark / Bill Miller / Prosecuting Attorney / Ralph Goll / the Prosecutor |
George Mitchell | Nolen Bulloch / Police Lieutenant |
John McLiam | Hank Messick / Walter Bedford |
Joseph Julian | Ben Tucker / Eddie / Herbert Krone |
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# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Nightmare | Friday, 12 October 1956 |
2 | Don Hogan of the Boston Post | Friday, 26 October 1956 |
3 | George Murphy of the San Francisco News | Friday, 16 November 1956 |
4 | Thurman Johns, Reporter: Phoenix Arizona Gazette | Friday, 23 November 1956 |
5 | Ex-Convict | Friday, 07 December 1956 |
6 | Mass Murder: Flight 169 | Friday, 14 December 1956 |
7 | Reunion | Friday, 21 December 1956 |
8 | The James Dean Big Story | Friday, 04 January 1957 |
9 | House Divided | Friday, 11 January 1957 |
10 | Ray Fulton of the Sharon Herald of Pennsylvania | Friday, 18 January 1957 |
11 | Checkmate | Friday, 01 February 1957 |
12 | Bob Thomas of the Philadelphia Inquirer | Friday, 08 February 1957 |
13 | Exposure | Friday, 15 February 1957 |
14 | Reprisal | Friday, 01 March 1957 |
15 | Jim O'Neil of Newsday of Long Island, New York | Friday, 08 March 1957 |
16 | Lineup | Friday, 15 March 1957 |
17 | Young Lovers | Friday, 29 March 1957 |
18 | The Long Dark Night | Friday, 05 April 1957 |
19 | The Mad Bomber | Friday, 12 April 1957 |
20 | Scramble | Friday, 26 April 1957 |
21 | Widow's Luck | Friday, 03 May 1957 |
22 | The Hoax | Friday, 10 May 1957 |
23 | Desperate Hunger | Friday, 24 May 1957 |
24 | Hiroshima Plus 12 | Friday, 31 May 1957 |
25 | Car 83 | Friday, 07 June 1957 |
26 | Banner of Innocence | Friday, 21 June 1957 |
27 | The Frame-Up | Friday, 28 June 1957 |
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Directors
Leonard Valenta, Charles Skinner, Dick Schneider, David Lowell Rich, Lawrence Doheny, Robert Lewis Shayon, Stuart Rosenberg, Daphene Elliott, Will Jason, Robert Gordon
Writers
Alvin Boretz, Arnold Perl, Douglas Taylor, Leon Tokatyan, Gail Ingram, Camille Torabpour, Norman Lessing, Max Ehrlich, Allan Sloane, Irve Tunick, Mel Goldberg, Aaron Dudley, Ken Wortkoetter, Newton Meltzer, Paul Monash
Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Sloane | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator / Himself - Announcer |
Ernest Chappell | Himself - Announcer / Self - Announcer / Himself - Narrator |
Ben Grauer | Himself - Narrator / Himself - Host |
Burgess Meredith | Himself - Narrator / Himself - Host / Narrator |
Norman Rose | |
Russell Hardie | J. Edgar Hoover / Chief Drago / Frazer / Marshall Morgan / Sidney Hackett / William J. Miller |
Nelson Olmsted | Alfred E. Clark / Bill Miller / Prosecuting Attorney / Ralph Goll / the Prosecutor |
George Mitchell | Nolen Bulloch / Police Lieutenant |
John McLiam | Hank Messick / Walter Bedford |
Joseph Julian | Ben Tucker / Eddie / Herbert Krone |
Bill Zuckert | Eddie Mahar / John Keyes |
Dana Elcar | Bernie / Cashmore / Oscar |
Philip Abbott | Arthur Mielke / Hoke May / Leonard Lerner / Thomas C. Gallagher |
Walter Brooke | Clifford Quin / Maurice Dean / Steve |
Joe Helgeson | (as Joseph Helgesen) / Bob Samson / Harry / Thurman Johns |
Victor Thorley | Henning / Jeff Cole |
Jack Orrison | Clerk / Editor / Hank / Townsend |
John Kellogg | Ed Montgomery / Jim Vachule / Paul Schoenstein / Vince Barrie |
Mary Lou Taylor | Mary Bulloch / Mother / Mrs. Tanne |
James Broderick | Don Kellerman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Everett Rosenthal | Executive Producer |
Bernard J. Prockter | Producer |
Everett Rosenthal | Producer |
Robert Louis Shayon | Producer |
Robert Lewis Shayon | Producer |
Stuart Rosenberg | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1953 | Emmy | Best Mystery, Action or Adventure Program | Nominated |