This episode was originally released on 4/1/2021. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.____________In Breaking Walls episode 114, as America moves to the suburbs in the mid-1950s, we move with them and examine a radio western called Fort Laramie. Although it only aired for ten months, it’s one of the most critically acclaimed western shows the genre ever produced.——————————Highlights:• The Network Radio Landscape in 1956• Norman MacDonnell loses Gunsmoke’s TV Production• Who Is William Raymond Stacy Burr and What Has He Really Done?• Launching Fort Laramie• Easter Sunday, 1956• Lost Child• The Birth of Rock and Roll• Jeanette Nolan’s Stagecoach Stop• The New Recruit• Fort Laramie Dies, Gunsmoke Lives On• Looking Ahead to the CBS Radio Workshop——————————The WallBreakers:thewallbreakers.comSubscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.To support the show:patreon.com/TheWallBreakers——————————The reading material used in today’s episode was:• On the Air — By John Dunning• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-53 — By Jim RamsburgAs well as articles from• Broadcasting Magazine• The Los Angeles Times——————————On the interview front:• Eve Arden, Dick Beals, Edgar Bergen and Shirley Mitchell, spoke to Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.• Harry Bartell, Lilian Buyeff, Lawrence Dobkin, Lou Krugman, Jeanette Nolan, and Vic Perrin were with SPERDVAC. For more information, go to SPERDVAC.com.• John Dehner, John Dunkel, Norman MacDonnell and John Meston were with John Hickman for his History of Gunsmoke documentary.• John Dehner and Vic Perrin were with Neill Ross for KMPC.• Jack Kruschen and Shirley Mitchell were with Jim Bohannon.• Raymond Burr was with Jack Webster.——————————Selected music featured in today’s episode was:• Don’t Fence Me In — By Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters• February Sea — By George Winston• Heartbreak Hotel — By Elvis Presley• Seance on a West Afternoon — By John Barry