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RADIO SERIES DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1956

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Fort Laramie was a radio Western series that aired Sunday afternoons at 5:30pm
(ET) on CBS from January 22 to October 28, 1956. The 41 episodes starred
Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr
became a television star as Perry Mason.

 

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FIRST IN THE WEST ON THIS DAY IN 1947

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Sunset Bronson Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood

KTLA , channel 5 in Los Angeles, California was the first commercially
licensed television station in the western United States, having begun 
operations on January 22, 1947.

The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune
Media
.

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RECAPING THE NEWS ON THIS DAY

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Sandy Kozel

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The sketch comedy show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In ran for 140 episodes
from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network. In
2002, Laugh-In was ranked #42 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All
Time
.

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ACTRESS IS 56 TODAY

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Linda Denise Blair, born in St. Louis, Missouri

Blair played the possessed Regan in The Exorcist (1973) for which she
was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe. In 1977,
she reprised her role in Exorcist II: The Heretic. Before fame, Linda Blair
became a child model at age six, and debuted in The Way We Live Now
(1970). 

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Linda Blair in The Exorcist

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SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1946

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The Fat Man
, a popular radio show during the 1940s and early 1950s
was a detective drama based on characters by Dashiell Hammett. It
starred J. Scott Smart in the title role, as a detective who started out
anonymous but rapidly acquired the name ‘Brad Runyon’.

Broadcast from the studios of WJZ in Newark, New Jersey, the series
premiered on the ABC Radio Network and aired until 1951.The success
of the radio series led to a movie, The Fat Man (1951).

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J. Scott Smart

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