The Big Story
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.
- Runtime
- 30m
- Released
- 1949
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1949
Storyline
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.
Top credits
- Robert Sloane — Self - Narrator, Self - Announcer
Ernest Chappell — Self - Announcer, Self - Narrator, Announcer, Self - Commercial Announcer
Ben Grauer — Self - Narrator, Narrator, Self - Host
Burgess Meredith — Self - Narrator, Self - Host, Narrator
Awards
0 wins & 1 nomination
See all awards →Did you know
• Louis Gossett, Jr.'s television debut.
• Some of the episodes that were transmitted live were remade once the people behind this TV series had switched to film in the middle to late 1950s. This is especially true of Seasons 8 and 9, which consist partly of these remade episodes. This was fairly common during this time period.
Episodes
325 episodes – 9 seasons
User reviews
Interesting TV Classic
The theme music for this program: Ein Heldenleben, by Richard Strauss
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
