{"id":24511,"date":"2014-10-04T06:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24511"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:56:19","slug":"october-4-1954-december-bride-debuted-on-cbsspring-byington-starred-not-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24511","title":{"rendered":"October 4, 1954 &#8211; &#8216;December Bride&#8217; Debuted On CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/October-4-1954-December-Bride-Debuted-On-CBS-Spring-Byington-starred-not-o.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>October 4, 1954 &#8211; &#8216;December Bride&#8217; Debuted On CBS<\/p>\n<p>Spring Byington starred not only in the television version, but in the CBS Radio version as well which began in 1952 with a cast of stars that included Hal March and Doris Singleton as her daughter and husband, and Hans Conrad as neighbor Pete Potter.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;December Bride&#8217; was produced by Desilu and Desi Arnaz personally chose the cast. Desi liked all of the radio actors and all were eventually guests on &#8216;I Love Lucy&#8217;, but he wanted Byington to shine in her own light, so he chose a new cast of relatively unknown actors.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting casting choice Arnaz made to hire Harry Morgan as neighbor, Pete Potter&#8230;this was Morgan&#8217;s first job in television. At the end of this show&#8217;s successful six year run, Morgan&#8217;s character was spun off into &#8216;Pete And Gladys&#8217;. Enjoy and Share! -Bobby Ellerbee <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yjQRcyTWUZg\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yjQRcyTWUZg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"December Bride\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yjQRcyTWUZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Miniepisode of &#8220;December Bride&#8221; &#8220;The Grandfather Clock&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/736547043049514\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 4, 1954 &#8211; &#8216;December Bride&#8217; Debuted On CBS Spring Byington starred not only in the television version, but in the CBS Radio version as well which began in 1952 with a cast of stars that included Hal March and Doris Singleton as her daughter and husband, and Hans Conrad as neighbor Pete Potter. &#8216;December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[724,783,845,728,725],"class_list":["post-24511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast","tag-cbs","tag-desi-arnaz","tag-guests","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}