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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP114: Sunday Afternoons at Fort Laramie (1956)
Description: In Breaking Walls episode 114, as America moves to the suburbs in the mid-1950s, we move with them and examine a radio western called Fort Laramie. Although it only aired for ten months, it’s one of the most critically acclaimed western shows the genre ever produced.
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Highlights:
• The Network Radio Landscape in 1956
• Norman MacDonnell loses Gunsmoke’s TV Production
• Who Is William Raymond Stacy Burr and What Has He Really Done?
• Launching Fort Laramie
• Easter Sunday, 1956
• Lost Child
• The Birth of Rock and Roll
• Jeanette Nolan’s Stagecoach Stop
• The New Recruit
• Fort Laramie Dies, Gunsmoke Lives On
• Looking Ahead to the CBS Radio Workshop
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