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- Jerry Blair was born, Raymond Gorski, from very stable family. He was an on-air radio personality. He adopted the name, Jerry Blair, for business purposes. He met, and married, Joyce Murdock in San Angelo, Texas.
Following the birth of their son, they moved to nearby Midland, Texas, where he took a job with the fledgling KMID Television station. He started with local news and commentary, and an afternoon, after-school show geared for children. It was all-live television, and well before any kind of video recording. Jerry later became Production Manager, then Station Manager.
Contributor, "Pete Seeker" well-remembers the afternoon show, "Two-Gun Playhouse," which featured 1930's and 40's Cowboy Western movies, all in black and white. In fact, ALL features on that station were B&W. It is recollected that some color made its way to the station in about 1957, but not all. On Playhouse, Jerry would tout the show's sponsor, Metzger's Milk. He named the baby-picture on each carton, as a mascot named, "George." His closing line was "George says, 'This is good milk from contented cows." It was different time.
Jerry was friends with an actor who came to help boost the station's programming. That friend was Edward "Eddie" Platt, who became an easily recognizable television and movie character-actor. Platt and Jerry moved on, but in decidedly different directions. The contributor does not have first-hand knowledge of Jerry and Joyce following their move from Midland, but from all indications, they were successful, and lived in the Dallas area for the rest of their lives.
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1927 - 2005 (77 years)