Big Town
| Big Town | |
|---|---|
Big Town #38 (March–April 1956) | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Ewald André Dupont Lawrence Kimble |
| Directed by | Busby Berkeley Ewald André Dupont Charles F. Haas Mark Stevens Gunther von Fritsch |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 169 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Jack J. Gross Philip N. Krasne Mark Stevens |
| Running time | 25 mins. |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS (1950–1954) NBC (1955–1956) |
| Release | October 5, 1950 – October 7, 1956 |
Big Town is a popular long-running radio drama featuring a corruption-fighting newspaper editor initially played from 1937 to 1942 by Edward G. Robinson in his first radio role, with echoes of the conscience-stricken tabloid editor he had played in the film Five Star Final. Edward Pawley played the lead role longer, 1943–52, in plots that made the editor more of a hands-on crime-fighter. During the later Pawley years, Big Town was adapted to film and television series, and a comic book published by DC Comics.