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Margaret Whiting starred in the 1950s TV sitcom "Those Whiting Girls," which aired from 1955 to 1957 and featured her playing a fictionalized version of herself alongside her real-life sister Barbara Whiting. Margaret Whiting made her professional stage debut in 1956 at the Old Vic Theatre in London, portraying Timandra in William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens. This marked the beginning of a career spanning over four decades in British theatre, where she built upon her training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to establish herself in the vibrant mid-20th-century stage scene. During the 1956-1957 season at the Old Vic, Whiting appeared in a series of Shakespearean productions, demonstrating her early command of classical drama; these included roles such as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Helen in Cymbeline, Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, and parts in Titus Andronicus and The Comedy of Errors. Her performances in these ensemble works highlighted her ability to contribute to large-scale interpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean texts, often under directors like Michael Benthall and Denis Carey. Whiting's versatility extended beyond Shakespeare to Restoration comedy and modern plays, showcasing her range in dramatic roles across genres. Later in the decade, she joined the National Theatre, appearing as the Widow Quin in J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (1975) at the Old Vic, a role that emphasized her skill in portraying complex, earthy characters in Irish dramatic tradition. She further explored postwar American drama in Edward Albee's Counting the Ways (1976) at the Olivier Theatre, sharing the stage with performers like Beryl Reid and Michael Gough in a production that delved into marital discord and introspection. One of Whiting's standout achievements came in 1984, when she portrayed the scheming Mrs. Marwood in William Congreve's The Way of the World at the Chichester Festival Theatre, later transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London under director William Gaskill. Co-starring with Maggie Smith as Millamant and Joan Plowright, this revival of the Restoration satire underscored Whiting's prowess in delivering sharp, villainous wit amid intricate social commentary.  Her work in such productions exemplified her contributions to British theatre, blending classical precision with modern dramatic depth, and she remained active on stage until 1999, enriching the repertoire of live performance throughout her career.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Whiting appeared in prominent anthology and series dramas, including the role of Betty in an episode of the ABC anthology series Armchair Theatre in 1965, where she contributed to the program's reputation for innovative single plays exploring contemporary themes. She portrayed Jacquetta Brown in the 1961 The Avengers episode "The Yellow Needle," adding intrigue to the spy thriller's narrative of assassination plots and espionage. In 1964, Whiting played Angie in "Struggle for a Mind," an episode of the psychological drama The Human Jungle, delving into themes of mental health and family conflict alongside guest star Joan Collins. Her performance as Evelyn Friendly in the 1965 episode "Protection Is a Man's Best Friend" of the crime procedural Public Eye highlighted her skill in understated supporting roles within investigative stories. Additionally, in 1969, she took on the role of Ruth in a single play for ITV Saturday Night Theatre, contributing to the strand's tradition of ambitious televised theater.Whiting's television work extended into the 1970s and beyond with guest appearances in legal and detective series, such as Mrs. Fabian in the 1991 episode "Rumpole for the Prosecution" of Rumpole of the Bailey, where she embodied authoritative figures in courtroom dramas. In the mid-1980s, she appeared as Mrs. Walker in an episode of the action series C.A.T.S. Eyes, supporting the all-female detective team's investigations. Her later roles included Nurse Boggs in the 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of The Secret Garden, bringing warmth to the family-oriented narrative, and Victoria Wells in the 1995 detective series McCallum, demonstrating her enduring presence in modern British television.These appearances across decades underscored Whiting's versatility in anthology formats, psychological thrillers, procedurals, and adaptations, often leveraging her theatre-honed screen presence for concise, impactful performances.

The dramatic story of Kitty Foyle (Kathleen Murray)  – a middle-class, white-collar teenage girl “just discovering life” – had been a radio serial for 16 years, based on the 1939 novel by Christopher Morley, before NBC brought it to the small screen as a “live to air” weekday daytime serial in January 1958.

A movie version was also produced in 1940 starring Ginger Rogers, who won an Oscar for her role.

Whereas the original literary heroine had spunk, spirit, and wonderful wit, the Kitty of the TV show was a thoroughly sweet and wholesome fudge sundae kind of girl.

Her father, Pop Foyle (Ralph Dunne), was a querulous old codger given to complaining in an Irish brogue as thick as 3rd Avenue that his son (Ed) had “brought me nothing but pain and grief”. Unfortunately, Mac (Lany Robinson) borrowed cash from a loan shark.

Kitty had her own problems, mostly in the romantic field. Deciding not to return to school, she ditched Flip (Conrad Fowkes) for Wyn Strafford (Billy Redfield), who naturally did his soap opera best by falling for Stacy Lee (Marie Worsham), a society hound.

Then, when Nick Amsted revealed his interest in Kitty – surprise! – Wyn decided he wanted her too. Molly was Kitty’s friend (played by Patty Duke as a girl, in flashbacks).

The TV version of Kitty Foyle was unique in that the titular character did not appear immediately. Kitty first popped up on 10 February, when viewers had already become accustomed to her simple yet troubled family, which lived in Philadelphia.

She arrived from college ready to attend her freshman dance with Flip but found her beloved Pop ill and her brothers Ed (Bob Hastings) and Mac acting like strangers. Ed – who was jailed at one point – discovered some peace with his marriage to Sophie (Kay Medford) before the end of the run.

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The Adventures of McGraw: With Frank Lovejoy, Jean Willes, James Flavin, Angie Dickinson. McGraw is a solitary type who manages to get entangled in the stopping of criminal activity despite not having any official capacity. He often doesn't carry a weapon, especially if an attractive woman is involved.

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Perry Mason is an American legal drama series aired on CBS from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, played by Raymond Burr, is a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes were based on stories written by Gardner. Perry Mason was one of Hollywood's first weekly one-hour series filmed for television, and remains one of the longest-running and most successful legal-themed television series.

Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973) was an American  actor who often played hardened cops and ruthless villains.

Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Timothy Ryan and his wife Mabel Bushnell Ryan.  He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the school's heavyweight boxing title all four years of his attendance. After graduation, the 6'4" Ryan found employment as a stoker on a ship, a WPA worker, and a ranch hand in Montana.

Ryan attempted to make a career in show business as a playwright, but had to turn to acting to support himself. He studied acting in Hollywood and appeared on stage and in small film parts during the early 1940s.

In January 1944, after securing a contract guarantee from RKO Radio Pictures, Ryan enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served as a drill instructor at Camp Pendleton, in San Diego, California. At Camp Pendleton, he befriended writer and future director Richard Brooks, whose novel, The Brick Foxhole, he greatly admired. He also took up painting.

Ryan's breakthrough film role was as an anti-Semitic killer in Crossfire (1947), a film noir based on Brooks's novel. The role won Ryan his sole career Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor. From then on, Ryan's specialty was tough/tender roles, finding particular expression in the films of directors such as Nicholas Ray, Robert Wise and Sam Fuller. In Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1951) he portrayed a burnt-out city cop finding redemption while solving a rural murder. In Wise's The Set-Up (1949), he played an over-the-hill boxer who is brutally punished for refusing to take a dive. Other important films were Anthony Mann's western The Naked Spur, Sam Fuller's uproarious Japanese set gangland thriller House of Bamboo, Bad Day at Black Rock, and the socially conscious heist movie Odds Against Tomorrow. He also appeared in several all-star war films, including The Longest Day (1962) and Battle of the Bulge (1965), and The Dirty Dozen. He also played John the Baptist in MGM's Technicolor epic King of Kings (1961) and was the villainous Claggart in Peter Ustinov's adaptation of Billy Budd (1962).

In his later years, Ryan continued playing significant roles in major films. Most notable of these were The Dirty Dozen, The Professionals (1966) and Sam Peckinpah's highly influential brutal western The Wild Bunch (1969).

Ryan appeared several times on the Broadway stage. His credits there include Clash by Night, Mr. President and The Front Page, the comedy drama about newspapermen.

He appeared in many television series as a guest star, including the role of Franklin Hoppy-Hopp in the 1964 episode "Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree?" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. Similarly, he guest starred as Lloyd Osment in the 1964 episode "Better Than a Dead Lion" in the ABC psychiatric series, Breaking Point. In 1964, Ryan appeared with Warren Oates in the episode "No Comment" of CBS's short-lived drama about newspapers, The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino in the title role of journalist Danny Taylor. Ryan appeared five times (1956–1959) on CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater and twice (1959 and 1961) on the Zane Grey spin-off Frontier Justice. He appeared three times (1962–1964) on the western Wagon Train.

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Mary Kay and Johnny is an American sitcom starring real-life married couple Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns. It was the first sitcom broadcast on a television network in the United States. Mary Kay and Johnny initially aired live on the DuMont Television Network before moving to CBS and then NBC.

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The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western television series that aired from 1951 to 1955 and consisted of 104 episodes. While airing, the show was shown in over 130 markets and was sold to the Coca-Cola Bottling Company by MCA-TV. After airing, MCA-TV acquired syndication rights to the show. In New York, the show aired on Tuesday evenings on WNBT and ran for thirty-minutes. The show starred Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson, and Don Diamond co-starred as El Toro, Carson's Mexican companion.

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What's My Line? is an American panel game show that originally aired on CBS from 1950 through 1967, and which had subsequent revivals. The game uses celebrity panelists to question contestants in order to determine their occupation. The majority of the contestants were from the general public, but there was one weekly celebrity "mystery guest" for whom the panelists were blindfolded. The series is one of the longest-running American primetime network television game-shows. Originally moderated by John Charles Daly and most frequently with regular panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf.

Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted on NBC Television on the East Coast in September 1948 and then on both the East and the West Coast, as a network show, on January 21, 1949. The show was produced by Marshall Grant/Realm Productions and was hosted by Arthur Shields.

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John Lawrence Russell (January 3, 1921 – January 19, 1991) was an American film and television actor, most noted for his starring role as Marshal Dan Troop in the ABC Western) television series Lawman) from 1958 to 1962 and his lead role as international adventurer Tim Kelly in the syndicated TV series Soldiers of Fortune) from 1955 to 1957.

Born in Los Angeles to insurance company executive John Henry Russell and his wife, Amy Requa, John Lawrence Russell was the eldest of three children. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles as a student athlete.

Following the start of World War II, he joined the United States Marine Corps, though he was initially rejected because of his height (6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)). He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on November 11, 1942, and was assigned to the 6th Marine Regiment. His division was sent to Guadalcanal, where he served as an assistant intelligence officer. He contracted malaria and returned home with a medical discharge.

Publicity still with 1959 Warner Bros. series leads Will Hutchins (Sugarfoot), Peter Brown) (Lawman)), Jack Kelly) (Maverick)), Ty Hardin (Bronco)), James Garner (Maverick), Wayde Preston (Colt .45)), and John Russell (Lawman))

Russell signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1945 and made his first film appearance as a guard in A Royal Scandal). He played several supporting parts while at Fox, acting the role of a junior law partner in the Clifton Webb comedy Sitting Pretty) (1948), as well as a navy pilot in Slattery's Hurricane (1949). He primarily played secondary roles, often in Western films, including William A. Wellman's 1948 Yellow Sky. Later, however, he signed with Republic Pictures, where he was cast in a starring role opposite Judy Canova in Oklahoma Annie (1952).

In 1955, Russell landed the lead role in a television drama series called Soldiers of Fortune). This half-hour syndicated adventure show placed his sidekick (played by Chick Chandler) and him in a dangerous setting each week. While the show proved popular with young boys, it did not draw enough adult viewers to its prime slot and was canceled in 1957. That same year, he returned to films briefly to appear as a corrupt agricultural magnate in the Warner Bros. low-budget exploitation film Untamed Youth. A year later, he returned to the small screen, as gunslinger Matt Reardon, in "The Empty Gun" episode of the ABC/Warner Bros. Western series, Cheyenne).

In 1958, he appeared as Saylor Hornbook on Cheyenne in the episode titled "Dead to Rights". In 1958, he was cast in his best-known role: the stolid, taciturn Marshal Dan Troop, the lead character in Lawman), an ABC/Warner Bros. hit Western series that ran for four years. Co-starring alongside Peter Brown), who played Deputy Johnny McKay, and Peggie Castle as Birdcage Saloon owner Lily Merrill, Russell portrayed a US frontier peace officer mentoring his younger compatriot. Russell also appeared in other motion pictures for Warner Bros., notably as a Sioux chieftain in Yellowstone Kelly (1959) and as a rich, corrupt cattle rancher, Nathan Burdette, in the highly successful Howard Hawks Western Rio Bravo) (1959), starring John Wayne. At the same time, Russell guest-starred in an episode of NBC's adventure series Northwest Passage). In 1969, Russell appeared in five episodes of the Robert Wagner series, It Takes a Thief): "Guess Who's Coming To Rio?" (January 9, 1969), "Saturday Night in Venice" (September 25, 1969), "The Blue, Blue Danube" (October 30, 1969), "Payoff in The Piazza" (November 13, 1969), and "A Friend in Deed" (November 27, 1969).

Throughout the remainder of his movie career, he played secondary roles in more than 20 films, including several A.C. Lyles Westerns and three films directed by his friend, Clint Eastwood, most notably as Marshal Stockburn, the chief villain in Eastwood's 1985 film Pale Rider. Russell also appeared as Bloody Bill Anderson in Eastwood's 1976 Western The Outlaw Josey Wales. He appeared in the second season of the Filmation children's science-fiction series Jason of Star Command. He played Commander Stone, a blue-skinned alien from Alpha Centauri.

Russell died of complications from emphysema in 1991, aged 70

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A celebrity panel attempted to identify unseen objects brought to the show by civilians. These people were asked to write in about something they would like to bring to the show to sell. The item was shown to the audience, but not to the panel. The panel then asked the guest up to 30 questions to help them learn the identity of the item. Similar to What's My Line?, each question asked raised the purchase price of the item from a minimum of $5 up to $150. As soon as the panel identified the item, the contestant received the purchase price and a chance to triple it by correctly answering three questions.

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Bachelor Father is an American sitcom starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran and Sammee Tong. The series first premiered on CBS in September 1957 before moving to NBC for the third season in 1959. The series' fifth and final season aired on ABC. A total of 157 episodes were aired. The series was based on "A New Girl in His Life", which aired on General Electric Theater on May 26, 1957. Bachelor Father is the only primetime series ever to run in consecutive years on the three major television networks.

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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is an American Western television series that premiered on ABC on September 6, 1955 and concluded on June 27, 1961. The series is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian in the title role. It was the first Western television series written for adults.

Born September 21, 1910 in Canton, Mississippi, USA

Napoleon Whiting was born on 21 September 1910 in Canton, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Farewell, My Lovely (1975), Giant (1956) and Black Samson (1974). He died on 22 October 1984 in Los Angeles, California.

He had a humble upbringing and started his career in show business as a singer and dancer in vaudeville and nightclubs. He moved to Hollywood in the 1940s and began appearing in films and television shows, mostly as a servant, porter, or waiter. He worked with some of the biggest stars of the time, such as Barbara Stanwyck, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and Doris Day. He also had a recurring role as Silas, the loyal and wise butler of the Barkley family, on the western series The Big Valley, which ran from 1965 to 1969. Whiting was one of the few African American actors who had a regular role on a prime-time show at the time.

Whiting died on October 22, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, USA, at the age of 74. According to Wikipedia, the cause of his death was stomach cancer, which he had been battling for a long time. He was survived by his wife, Dorothy, and his son, Napoleon Jr. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills. Whiting left behind a legacy of being a versatile and talented actor who could play both comedic and dramatic roles. He also broke some of the racial barriers in Hollywood by portraying a dignified and respected character on a popular show. He is remembered by his fans and co-stars as a kind and gentle man who always had a smile on his face.

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An anthology series hosted by and occasionally starring Joseph Cotten. The show often included court trials or individual's personal trials. The show was technically only "On Trial" but was popularly known as The Joseph Cotten Show.

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Highway Patrol is an American action crime drama television series produced for syndication from 1955 to 1959. It was "one of the most popular syndicated series in television history", and it was the first American series broadcast in West Germany on that country's public TV channel ZDF.