Ronnie who?          

JANE WYMAN PRESENTS THE FIRESIDE THEATRE

Kathleen Hite wrote for both The Fireside Theatre, 
which beginning in 1955 was hosted and often starred Jane Wyman, 
and General Electric Theatre, where Wyman's former husband 
performed a similar role.  Later, when the unlikely coincidence happened 
and Wyman came to rule Falcon Crest in almost precisely the same years 
that Ronald Reagan ruled the world, Kathleen Hite was writing her last 
few episodes of The Waltons and three of Falcon Crest. 
A Hite fanatic who sifts through all these dynastic ironies 
will appreciate one fact unnoticed by political scientists 
and Hollywood historians:  Almost two decades before 
both of Earl Hamner's creations and all the 80s 
ranchy power-family shows like Dallas and Dynasty, 
Kathleen Hite produced a prototypical tv show called Empire. 
But, that was in a past as black & white as the Dallas footage and Gunsmoke. 



One Last September                October 18, 1955           ep #1-8 
No More Tears                          October 16, 1956           ep #2-7 
Married To a Stranger             March 5, 1957                ep #9-27 
The Wildcatter                          March 19, 1957              ep #2-27 
Night Club Baby 




May 2, 2006 


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