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Roger Awsumb (July 10, 1928 – July 15, 2002) was an American television show host and radio broadcaster in Minneapolis–Saint Paul and Brainerd, Minnesota. [1] He is most known for his lead role in the children's television show he created, Lunch With Casey, that aired on the Twin Cities area channel 11 from 1954 until 1973. [2]
Casey lived in the fictional Missouri town of Midvale, within commuting distance of St. Louis, with his wife, Alice, their young son, Casey, Jr., and their dog Cinders. Although there really was a famous locomotive engineer named Casey Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad, the television series is only loosely based on him. His train is named ...
The Casey Jones State Trail is currently limited to three separate sections. The first section runs from the city of Pipestone due east for 13 miles (21 km) to the Pipestone / Murray county line. After a 4-mile (6.4 km) gap the trail resumes for a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) section leading into the town of Lake Wilson .
Casey Jones (TV series) Cimarron City (TV series) Colgate Theatre (1958 TV series) College Football on CBS Sports; Colonel Humphrey Flack; Concentration (game show) Confession (American TV series) Continental Classroom
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
In 1950, the Disney studio produced an animated cartoon short based on Casey Jones, entitled The Brave Engineer. From 1954 until 1973, Roger Awsumb played Casey Jones on Lunch With Casey in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market on WTCN-TV. The 1956 James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever references Casey Jones during a train chase.
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He was a regular in the syndicated 1957–1958 television series, Casey Jones, [1] playing Casey Junior. The series starred Alan Hale Jr. in the title role. Clark made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as the title character in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client".