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The Big Story
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The Big Story

1949
The Big Story
The Big Story

The Big Story

6.6 | en | Drama

Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States. Comments from the actual reporter open and close each show but the permanent narrator drives the plot line and a featured actor dramatizes the reporter's role.

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Seasons & Episodes

9
EP16  Until proven guilty
Jan. 17,1958
Until proven guilty

A intrusive battle in the court of law.

EP8  Shield 21
Jan. 01,0001
Shield 21

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EP7  Shakedown
Jan. 01,0001
Shakedown

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EP6  Fighter's Fists
Jan. 01,0001
Fighter's Fists

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EP5  The Cat
Jan. 01,0001
The Cat

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EP4  Turnpike Terror
Jan. 01,0001
Turnpike Terror

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EP3  Search for Truth
Jan. 01,0001
Search for Truth

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6.6 | en | Drama , Documentary | More Info
Released: 1949-09-16 | Released Producted By: NBC Productions , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States. Comments from the actual reporter open and close each show but the permanent narrator drives the plot line and a featured actor dramatizes the reporter's role.

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Cast

Burgess Meredith , James Dean

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Reviews

Don Klemencic I learned to love classical music from my exposure to the themes used by television programs in the 50's. I looked forward to the shows as much for the themes as anything else. One of my favorites was the theme to The Big Story, which I only discovered years later was taken from the opening bars of Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life). When I first heard it on a classical radio station it gave me a rush of pleasure. I recognized it immediately as an old friend.I recall that one of the reporters whose "Big Story" was highlighted in an episode was Dorothy Kilgallen. I remembered her because she was a regular on the television program What's My Line.
sonny_1963 I loved this show when I was young. It was on NBC for years.Every Friday night they would cover a recent story from the news of the day. The show was narrated and that just made it better.The only "big story" I remember was in 1951 and that of a 104-year old man who claimed he was Jesse James. He said the Ford brothers were true friends who killed a "double" and claimed it was Jesse. The murdered man, who was a traitor to the James gang, looked like Jesse.The old man went by the name of Dalton. That was Jesse's mother's maiden name. Jesse was related to the infamous Dalton gang of the 1890s.Following the television episode, doctors and scientists determined the old man was lying. They even had the body of Jesse James exhumed to prove it was really Jesse in his grave.The whole affair was most interesting and that episode of "The Big Story" is still in my mind today.