Big Town | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Ewald André Dupont Lawrence Kimble |
Directed by | Busby Berkeley Ewald André Dupont Charles F. Haas Mark Stevens Gunther von Fritsch |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 169 |
Production | |
Producers | Jack J. Gross Philip N. Krasne Mark Stevens |
Running time | 25 mins. |
Original release | |
Network | CBS (1950–1954) NBC (1955–1956) |
Release | October 5, 1950 October 7, 1956 | –
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Big Town is a popular long-running radio drama featuring a corruption-fighting newspaper editor initially played from 1937 to 1942 by Edward G. Robinson in his first radio role, with echoes of the conscience-stricken tabloid editor he had played in the film Five Star Final. Edward Pawley played the lead role longer, 1943–52, in plots that made the editor more of a hands-on crime-fighter. During the later Pawley years, Big Town was adapted to film and television series, and a comic book published by DC Comics.