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CHARLES W. RUNYON...
Trooper 36-24-36. The originator of the series is Richard Orkin, 32, WCFL's director of creative production. A Yale Drama School dropout, he is also the voice of Chickenman and other male characters. The rest of the cast are Disk Jockey Jim Runyon, as the pomegranate-voiced announcer, and, in the female roles, Jane Roberts, WCFL's ex-traffic reporter ("Trooper...
...months ago, Orkin found himself "going buggy" over the series and abruptly stopped taping. Listeners and Chickenman fan clubs protested the abortive end. So stations that had already completed the 195 episodes started rerunning them. Orkin ponders launching a second cycle, but that would require bringing back Co-Stars Runyon and Roberts, who have since married and moved to Boston. In the mean time, Orkin has founded Amazon Ace, a cross between Tarzan and the Lone Ranger. Syndicated only six weeks ago the Ace and "his faithful Indian com panion Bernard" have already spread from WCFL Chicago to a nationwide...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S "GUYS AND DOLLS" (ABC, 8-11 p.m.).* Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Elaine re-create the world of Damon Runyon in the 1955 film version of Broadway's Guys and Dolls...
...chuck his $50,000-a-year job and find happiness as a minister? The gospel according to St. Johns is a turgid yes, provided that he preaches a theology based on the teachings of Rebecca West, Billy Graham, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, J. D. Salinger, Jakob Bohme and Damon Runyon. Tell No Man is No. 5 on the bestseller list...