 William Robert Tallman, known as Bill then Robert, and finally Bob, was a prolific script writer during the heart of Radio's Golden Age from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. Before his career heyday in Los Angeles, Tallman started life in Colorado roughly around 1914. That year is approximate because he apparently claimed various years as his birthday. He was a high school dropout in the early 1930s as the Great Depression raged and subsequently moved to New York where he worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Associated Press. Though uncorroborated at this point, Tallman always said that he broke into radio on March of Time in 1934 and even claimed to have been head of the writing team. By the end of the 1930s he was writing regularly with the screenplay slightly honorable in 1939 and the American Heritage Radio series Calvulcade of America. Tallman's most famous work may be his stint on The Adventures of Sam Spade, first collaborating with Joe Eisinger and then Gild Dowd. For two years during 1947 and 1948, Tallman again teamed with Dowd to write the original series The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen. Tallman continued writing for the networks into the mid-1950s earning credits on series such as Mr. I.A. Motto, Suspense, and Escape. He wrote for television through the 50s in the very early 1960s on Omnibus and Perry Mason, among others. Eddie had scripts on Hawaii and I as late as 1962. Tallman died at age 80 on September 10, 1995 in Hollywood.