Gunsmoke, was TV’s longest running prime time, live action
dramatic series for decades.The television series ran for 20
seasons from 1955 to 1975, and lasted for 635 episodes.

Brian Manion Dennehy (July 9, 1938 – April 15, 2020)

NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who
started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career
won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William
Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill and Arthur
Miller, has died. According to the actor’s representatives,
Dennehy died Wednesday night of natural causes in New
Haven, Connecticut. He was 81.

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
(April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) December 1977)

On April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin
was born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England.

Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of
early Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he
was five. The son of London music hall entertainers,
young Chaplin was watching a show starring his mother
when her voice cracked. He was quickly shuffled onto the
stage to finish the act.

Chaplin as The Little Tramp.

KATN first signed on the air in April 1961.

From left: Ralph F. Frazer (KATN 1010 AM owner/manager),
Melburn Stone (“Doc”), and Ken Curtis (Festus) from the
CBS-TV series Gunsmoke paid a visit to the Boise, Idaho
country music station in 1965.

SANDY KOZEL