The Big Story
About The Big Story
Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States. Comments from the actual reporter open and close each show but the permanent narrator drives the plot line and a featured actor dramatizes the reporter's role.
The Big Story is a documentary series that ran on NBC.
Its 9 seasons and 6 episodes aired between September 1949 and January 1958.
James Dean leads the cast as Rex Newman, Ernest Chappell as Announcer, and Robert Sloane as Narrator.