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Norman Macdonnell

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Norman Scarth Macdonnell (November 8, 1916 to November 28, 1979) was an American producer for radio, television and feature films. He is best known for co-creating, with the writer John Meston, the Western series Gunsmoke, which was broadcast on CBS Radio from 1952 to 1961 and on television from 1955 to 1975. He also produced, directed or at various times wrote other radio series. The atlas records him among the directors of the radio anthology Escape.

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1916 1
Norman Macdonnell
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Escape, Landmark Works
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Norman Scarth Macdonnell (November 8, 1916, November 28, 1979) was an American producer for radio, television, and feature films.
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Escape (radio program) (Wikipedia)
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Norman MacDonnell, William N. Robson
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