Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by a urban guerilla group called the 
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) from her Berkeley, California apartment. She 
ultimately joined her captors in furthering their cause and was apprehended after
having taken part in a bank robbery with other members of the group. Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, was imprisoned
for nearly two years before her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy
Carter and was later granted a presidential pardon by Bill Clinton in his last
official act before leaving office.  

After her release from prison, Patty,now known as Patricia Campbell Hearst
Shaw, married her former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. They have two children 
and reside in Garrison, New York. .

It initially began as Challenge of the Yukon, a 15-minute local radio series on
on Detroit’s WXYX. The title changed to Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in
November 1951, and remained under that name through the end of the
series and into television. 

The part of the brave Canadian Mountie was played by various actors over
the course of the shows long run. Jay Michael originated the role until the
mid 1940s. Paul Sutton then took over and was followed briefly by Brace
Beemer when the The Lone Ranger series ended in 1954. Sutton came
back for the final broadcast.

The original announcer/narrator of the radio show was Bob Hite, who
was also the narrator for the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet and The
Shadow.

Jay Michael

"On, King! On, you huskies!."

 
                
                      (January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010)

Born Jacob Lincoln Freund, Forsythe was a stage, television and
film actor. He starred in three TV series, spanning four decades
and three genres. He was Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor
Father (1959-1962), as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend
in Charlie’s Angels (1976-1981), and as Blake Carrington on the
prime time soap drama Dynasty (1981-1989). John Forsythe also
hosted World of Survival (1971-1977).

Joan Collins, John Forsythe, Linda Evans from Dynasty

  
                                      The DVD contains 5 Discs

Shown from left: Ben Alexander and Jack Webb

The pilot for Dragnet, "The Human Bomb", adapted from the July 21, 1949 radio
radio episode, aired on television on December 16, 1951 as a special presentation
of the NBC program Chesterfield Sound-Off Time. After the pilot’s success, the
regular series debuted 0n Thursday, January 3, 1952 with the episode titled
“The Big Actor”.