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Gunsmoke's four continuing characters on both radio and television were

Matt Dillon, United States Marshall,

Chester Wesley Proudfoot, his middle aged "helper,"

Charles "Doc" Adams, the town physician, and

Kitty Russell, a "saloon girl" at the Texas Trails.

Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas between 1872, when the Santa Fe Railroad reached town, and 1885, when local farmers forced the end of the Texas cattle drives along the Western Trail. Dodge City, known as the "Queen of the Cow Towns," the "Wicked Little City," the "Gomorrah of the Plains," had a reputation as a hostile, lawless town where the "fastest gun" ruled. As the opening of the show proclaimed: "Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gunsmoke." That marshall, Matt Dillon, was modeled after the real lawmen who "tamed" (or at least kept a lid on) Dodge City: US Deputy Marshall Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), Sheriff Bat Masterson (1856-1921), Sheriff Bill Tilghman (1854-1924), and Sheriff Charlie Bassett.

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The Green Hornet was an American radio program that ran on WXYZ (Detroit), the Mutual Network and the ABC Blue Network from January 31, 1936 to December 5, 1952. Created by WXYZ's George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The Lone Ranger, the juvenile adventure series initially starred Al Hodge in the title role, followed by Donovan Faust (1943), Bob Hall (1944-51) and Jack McCarthy (1951-52). The radio show used Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" as its theme song, blended with a hornet buzz created on a theremin.

The series detailed the adventures of Britt Reid, debonair newspaper publisher by day, crime-fighting masked hero at night, along with his trusty sidekick, Kato, a Filipino of Japanese ancestry. With the outbreak of World War II his Japanese heritage was almost completely dropped, leading to the common misperception that the character's nationality had been switched by the show's writers. (When the characters were used in a pair of movie serials Kato's nationality was inexplicably given as Korean.) Reid is a close relative of The Lone Ranger. The character of Dan Reid, who appeared on the Lone Ranger program as the Masked Man's nephew, was also featured on the Green Hornet as Britt's father. The Lone Ranger's name is often incorrectly stated to have been John Reid, an error first made in a volume called The Big Broadcast in the 1970s. In fact, however, writers for WXYZ never provided a first name for the character.

In the original introduction of the radio show announcer Mike Wallace proclaimed that the Green Hornet went after criminals that "even the G-Men (FBI agents) couldn't reach". The show's producers were called by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover who prompted them to remove the line implying that some crime fighting was beyond the abilities of the FBI. During World War II, the radio show's title was used as a codename for SIGSALY, secret encryption equipment used in the war.

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Back Of The Mike" is well done. It shows the viewer how a 1930's radio play was done in the studio. Unlike television, the radio listeners had to participate by using their imagination.

HOW SOUND EFFECTS ARE PRODUCED IN THE MODERN RADIO STUDIO. BOY LISTENS TO WESTERN DRAMA ON RADIO; THIS IS INTERCUT WITH ACTORS & TECHNICIANS PRODUCING SOUND EFFECTS. CONTAINS WESTERN CHASE SCENES. DAY IS SAVED BY SHERIFF'S DAUGHTER IN CHEVROLET.

Ken Smith sez: A boy lies on his bed (wearing a white shirt and a necktie), listening to a radio western. We see the images the radio creates in his mind, then we cut to the studio, where we see that this whole fantasy world is created at a frantic pace by announcers in three-piece suits and sound-effects technicians operating incredibly complicated jury-rigged devices. Since this is a Jam Handy picture, the good guys catch the bad guys in the end because the good guys are in a Chevrolet and the bad guys are only on horses.

COMMUNICATIONS PERCEPTION ACTORS RADIOS BOYS HOMES HOUSES CHILDREN CHEVROLET ADVERTISING SHERIFFS NARRATIVES COWBOYS CRIMINALS FATHERS DAUGHTERS WOMEN MEN APPARATUS HUMOR WIPES Radio broadcasting Radio studios Microphones Sound effects Surrealism Actors Entertainment Westerns (genres) Automobiles (Chevrolet) Fires Chases Horses Language Accents (regional) Sounds Mountains Stunts Robberies Crime Bandits Desperadoes Radio drama Drama (radio) Plays (radio) Safety

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The Lone Ranger galloped through performance after performance of radio heroism on

Detroit’s WXYZ: His dramatic “Hi-Yo Silver” echoed through living rooms across the

nation and fans young and old thrilled with excitement when “the thundering hooves of

the great horse Silver” were heard via the airwaves, bearing the masked rider, with

Tonto at his side, to his mission of rescue.

Seventy-two years ago, when the Lone Ranger was first broadcast, the identity of the

sonorous-voiced hero was a closely-guarded secret. Actually, an actor named Jack

Deeds played the title role for the first six broadcasts. He was replaced by a young

actor, George Stenius (later famous as George Seaton, movie producer) who

continued in the role for three months. When Stenius quit, then-station manager Brace

Beemer was selected to play the lead, but Beemer quit after a few months to open his

own advertising agency.

Earl W. Graser, another actor, played the masked hero with an easygoing naturalness

that had a strong identification for listeners until his untimely death in an automobile

accident in April of 1941. Baffled on Graser’s replacement, the producers decided to

buy some time by having the Lone Ranger critically wounded and unconscious, unable

to speak except for some heavy breathing to show he was still alive.

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Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality.

Benny may have been the first standup comedian, as the term is known, as well as one of the first to work with what became the situation comedy. He was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression. In hand with his great "rival" Fred Allen — their long-running "feud" was one of the greatest running gags in comedy history — Benny helped establish a basic palette from which comedy since has rarely deviated, no matter how extreme or experimental it has become in their wake.

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