Fred Allen

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Jack Webb

"Chesterfield Sound-Off Time" was a live, half-hour variety series on
NBC-TV with Fred Allen and Bob Hope alternating at hosts, and was
not very successful. However, on December 16, 1951,the show aired
the pilot for "Dragnet” called “The Human Bomb”, adapted from the
July 1949 radio episode. The special introduced many close-ups that
would become Jack Webb’s trademark. The pilot was such a success
that a regular TV series debuted in January 1952 on NBC, replacing
the variety show.

Premiere episode “The Human Bomb”

Joe Friday (Jack Webb); Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough),
and Chief of Detectives Thad Brown (Raymond Burr) try to
stop a man from blowing up city hall.

“Dynasty” fans will remember Linda Evans (Linda Evanstad) as Krystle Carrington on the ABC show from 1981 to 1991. She was also Audra
Barkley in “The Big Valley” also on ABC from 1965 to 1969.

Linda Evans with Rock Hudson

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Martin Scorsese is 70 years old today

Film and television actor and director Clu Gulager is best noted for his
Co-starring as William H. Bonney (Billy The Kid) in the NBC-TV series
The Tall Man (1960-1962) and for his role in the NBC series The
Virginian (1962-1971). Gulager served in the U.S. Marine Corps
before beginning his acting career.

Stars Ben Alexander and Jack Webb in the radio studio prior to a broadcast
of Dragnet in 1953. The NBC radio crime drama series premiered on June 3, 1949 and ended on February 26, 1957.

Jack Webb