For you Nessa

[BERIGAN]

Don't ever say I didn't ever do anything for you! Well, you can say it, but it wouldn't be true....

Paladin

[Chuck Nessa]

[GA Russell]

A number of radio shows crossed over to TV in the early 50s, many with the radio cast. IMO the best were Dragnet and The Jack Benny Show. Through 1955, many of these shows ran on both radio and TV.

The most famously disappointed radio cast was Gunsmoke's (William Conrad, Parley Baer, the guy who played Floyd the Barber, and Georgia Ellis). They all felt really bad that new actors were chosen for the TV series.

In addition, the director of the radio Gunsmoke was not chosen to direct the TV show. I forget his name, something like Norman Connall.

If I recall the years correctly, Have Gun Will Travel was a big hit on TV its first year, the 1958-59 season. It was decided to add it to radio for the next season, starring my favorite actor John Dehner, and directed by the guy who directed the Gunsmoke radio shows.

It was the only show to move from TV to radio of that era. Decades later they made a radio series of The Twilight Zone.

I have the entire set of radio shows. It was on for two years. The first year they used the TV scripts from the TV's first season, written by Gene Roddenberry and others. Honestly, they weren't very good.

But the second year, they used their own scripts, written for the radio show, often by a woman named Ann Dowd. They were outstanding!

The radio director was very proud of the fact that they were able to create shows that were superior to the TV shows. He felt that this proved that he should have gotten the Gunsmoke TV job.

The second year of the radio Have Gun is my all-time favorite radio show. My second favorite is the western John Dehner did immediately before that called Frontier Gentleman.

A couple of years ago I picked up at Best Buy the DVD set of the first TV season of Have Gun. I should have known that the scripts would seem just as mediocre on TV as they were on radio. The set was a real disappointment.

After hearing Year #2 of the radio show, it's a mystery to me why the TV show was so popular when it hit the scene.

(By the way, I remember my dad's aunt excusing herself to retire to her bedroom to listen to Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel on the radio in 1960. That got me started on listening to radio shows. I was fortunate enough to listen each week to the last year, 1960-61, the radio Gunsmoke was broadcast.)

[BERIGAN]

A number of radio shows crossed over to TV in the early 50s, many with the radio cast. IMO the best were Dragnet and The Jack Benny Show. Through 1955, many of these shows ran on both radio and TV.

The most famously disappointed radio cast was Gunsmoke's (William Conrad, Parley Baer, the guy who played Floyd the Barber, and Georgia Ellis). They all felt really bad that new actors were chosen for the TV series.

In addition, the director of the radio Gunsmoke was not chosen to direct the TV show. I forget his name, something like Norman Connall.

If I recall the years correctly, Have Gun Will Travel was a big hit on TV its first year, the 1958-59 season. It was decided to add it to radio for the next season, starring my favorite actor John Dehner, and directed by the guy who directed the Gunsmoke radio shows.

It was the only show to move from TV to radio of that era. Decades later they made a radio series of The Twilight Zone.

I have the entire set of radio shows. It was on for two years. The first year they used the TV scripts from the TV's first season, written by Gene Roddenberry and others. Honestly, they weren't very good.

But the second year, they used their own scripts, written for the radio show, often by a woman named Ann Dowd. They were outstanding!

The radio director was very proud of the fact that they were able to create shows that were superior to the TV shows. He felt that this proved that he should have gotten the Gunsmoke TV job.

The second year of the radio Have Gun is my all-time favorite radio show. My second favorite is the western John Dehner did immediately before that called Frontier Gentleman.

A couple of years ago I picked up at Best Buy the DVD set of the first TV season of Have Gun. I should have known that the scripts would seem just as mediocre on TV as they were on radio. The set was a real disappointment.

After hearing Year #2 of the radio show, it's a mystery to me why the TV show was so popular when it hit the scene.

(By the way, I remember my dad's aunt excusing herself to retire to her bedroom to listen to Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel on the radio in 1960. That got me started on listening to radio shows. I was fortunate enough to listen each week to the last year, 1960-61, the radio Gunsmoke was broadcast.)

GA, that's interesting, didn't know any shows went from TV to radio!

If you dig around the link I posted above, you can watch some other TV shows(with short commerical breaks) like Hawaii 5-0, and others....