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TV SERIES PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1949

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The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and Tonto (Jay Silverheels)

The Lone Ranger television series ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore
(John Hart from 1952 to 1954) with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The show initially
featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator
and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer
of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far
the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and
its first big hit. 

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RADIO SOAP DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1937

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                                                                                       Fran Carlton

Kitty Keene, Inc. was a radio soap about a female private detective, airing first on
CBS and then on Mutual. Kitty was played by Beverley Younger, Gail Henshaw
and Fran Carlon.

This series ran for four years, ending in 1941. Sponsored by Dreft, the show 
was part soap opera part detective mystery with a private "cat eye."

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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       Tim Maguire

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“THE OLD READHEAD”

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  Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983)

Arthur Godfrey was a radio and television broadcaster and entertainer
who hosted two CBS-TV weekly series and a daily 90-minute television
mid-morning show through most of the decade, but by the early 1960s
he was only hosting an occasional TV special. Godfrey was one of the
early master commercial pitchmen, identified with many sponsors like
Lipton Tea. Before fame, he was a radio operator in the U.S. Navy for
four years.

 

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SPIN-OFF DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1941

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Harold Peary as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve

The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast
from 1941 to 1957. It was one of broadcast history’s earliest
spin-off programs. The series was built around the character
Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a featured regular
of the NBC radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly
where the character was first introduced in the October 3,
1939 episode.

 

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