Word: lundigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into Space (CBS, Wed. 8:30-9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is made up of the best kind of science fiction: stories that come as close as careful research can bring them to becoming documentaries of tomorrow. The adventures of Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan), sometimes seem tailored to the familiar serial formula: Will the expedition land successfully on the moon? Will the space tanker explode? Will the colonel get lost among the stars? But the action is always trimmed closely to expert predictions. The show should spin into orbit...
...blown a windfall of $150 million to the studios for letting their pre-1948 movies go on the air. Except for Paramount, every major studio is also making TV films in earnest. Movie bigwigs curled their lips when such onetime movie performers as Betty Furness, William Lundigan, Lee Bowman and Ronald Reagan emerged as full-time TV commercial pluggers, but now virtually all the studios are in the business of filming commercials themselves. To help make ends meet, once-mighty M-G-M even rents out its sets and props to TV producers...
Ease the Way. The new look in announcers is being supplied by such entertainers as Cinemactor William Lundigan (Chrysler), Singer Vaughn Monroe (RCA Victor), Ballet Dancer Dorothy Jarnac (Stopette). Even where commercial announcers are kept on the job, entertainers are being hired to introduce them. On NBC's Oldsmobile Spectaculars, Actor Lee Bowman dresses up in evening clothes for the sole purpose of saying: "And now, ladies and gentlemen, here is Ed Herlihy with a message from our sponsor...
...subsidiary of Columbia Pictures and producer of such TV shows as Father Knows Best, Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and Captain Midnight), Ford Theater is in its third year on TV and attributes its success to 1) the use of Hollywood stars (Thomas Mitchell, Irene Dunne, William Lundigan, Ronald Reagan), 2) its technically perfect films, 3) its plots, which Screen Gems says defensively are of "more interest to audiences throughout the country than certain other series that appeal to more sophisticated viewers...
Ford Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). William Lundigan and Wanda Hendrix in The Bachelor...