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“ONE ADAM TWELVE! ONE ADAM TWELVE!”


Shaaron Claridge (born Shaaron Lee Cooper; later Snead) (October 1, 1938 – September 15, 2021)

Claridge was a second-shift radiotelephone operator or police radio dispatcher at the Van Nuys Division of the Los Angeles Police Department best known for her voice work on the Adam-12 TV
series. Her husband was an
LAPD
motorcycle officer.

Following Milner’s death on September 6, 2015, Claridge broadcast
the "End of Watch" transmission over the LAPD radio recognizing Milner’s performance as Officer Pete Malloy in Adam-12.

Adam 12 Theme Song Intro - YouTube
Kent McCord as Officer James A. Reed, and Martin Milner as Officer Peter J. Malloy. The TV  series ran on NBC from 1968
to 1975 when it was cancelled.                          

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REMEMBERING ACTOR CHUCK CONNORS

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Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors
(April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992)

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Chuck Connors was an actor, writer, and professional
basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13
athletes in the history of American professional sports
to have played in both
Major League Baseball (Brooklyn
Dodgers
1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and the National
Basketball
Association
(Boston Celtics 1947–48). With
a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for
his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated
ABC series The Rifleman (1958–63)

Connors died on November 10, 1992, at Cedars-Sinai
Medical
Center
in Los Angeles at the age of 71 of lung
cancer
.


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EPIC WESTERN BEGAN AS A RADIO SERIES

Gunsmoke: The Radio Classic - Home | Facebook

Cast members from left: Howard McNear (Dr. Charles
Adams) Parley Baer as Chester, William Conrad
(U.S. Marshal
 Matt Dillon) and Georgia Ellis as Kitty
Russell.


    

Gunsmoke is a western radio series, which was developed for radio
by
John Meston and Norman Macdonnell. The series ran for nine seasons and was broadcast by CBS. The first episode of the series originally aired on April 26, 1952, and the final first-run episode aired
on June 11, 1961..During the series, a total of 480 original episodes
were broadcast, including shows with re-used or adapted scripts. A
television version
of the series debuted in 1955.


"Gunsmoke" sound effect artists Ray Kemper &Tom Hanley 
with Director Norm McDonnel.
       

 

       
  WRCW Radio - Home Of Gunsmoke - Free Internet Radio - Live365   

     

Conrad, born Cann, William - WW2 Gravestone
  William Conrad
(September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994)

 
    
    
   

Conrad continued as Dillon after the TV show had
already started, and played the role until 1961. He
was considered for the role of Dillon on the TV show,
but the creators and producers decided, in the end,
to go for Arness in his place. It’s rumored that his 
weight was a factor behind his not being cast. 
         

Gunsmoke – Old Radio Shows.org

 

  

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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1931

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James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955)

After his death in a car crash, Dean became the first actor
to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for
Best Actor, and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations, In 1999, the American
Film Institute
ranked him the 18th best male movie star
of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars
list.

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OREGON BORN ACTOR HAS DIED AT 81

This is why Howard Hesseman was uniquely qualified to play WKRP's Dr.  Johnny Fever

Howard Hesseman, WKRP in Cincinnati's Dr. Johnny Fever, dies at 81 - The  Globe and Mail
Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) 


Hesseman played DJ John "
Dr. Johnny Fever" Caravella on
WKRP in Cincinnati, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy
2: Their First Assignment
, Sam Royer on One Day at a Time,
and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. He 
died Saturday from complications of colon surgery in Los
Angeles,
California. Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon.

Howard Hesseman, 'WKRP in Cincinnati' Star, Dead at 81 - Rolling Stone

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