TV series · 1949
The Big Story
First aired 16 September 1949 Documentary / Drama TMDB ↗
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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Norman Rose
James Dean
as Rex Newman
Ben Grauer
Ernest Chappell
as Announcer
Robert Sloane
as Narrator
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Katherine Meskill
as Emma
Burgess Meredith
as Narrator
Burgess Meredith
as Self - Narrator
William Griffis
as Defense Attorney
Lin McCarthy
as Bus Bergen
John McLiam
Jack Klugman
James Dickey
as Prosecutor
Lee Marvin
Conrad Janis
as Charles W. Wells
Dana Elcar
as Lt. Alameda
Read Morgan
as Charlie Adams
Jock MacGregor
as Coroner
Victor Thorley
as J.B. Drews