Classic television - Posts - Page 35

“San Francisco, 1875…the Carlton Hotel…headquarters of the man called…Paladin!”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 23rd 2016

By the beginning of the 1950s, television had started to make major inroads as the preferred home entertainment source for

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 21st 2016

“America’s favorite singing cowboy,” Gene Autry, began his long-running radio series Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch in January o

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 19th 2016

The Golden Age of Radio—and this may be a good or bad thing, depending upon your opinion of the Fourth Estate—was a regular

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 15th 2016

On radio, one of the rare daytime dramas to stand out from its weepy brethren and sistren was Hilltop House—a series that t

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 8th 2016

Though September 30, 1962 is often acknowledged as the date when The Golden Age of Radio ended, director-producer-writer Wi

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 4th 2016

The Oxford Dictionary defines the term “Runyonesque” as “of, relating to, or characteristic of Damon Runyon or his style, l