She appeared only sporadically on TV after “The Gale Storm Show,” guest starring on such programs as “Burke’s Law,” “The Love Boat” and “Murder, She Wrote.” Storm, who had taken vocal lessons, sang on her second series, and three of her records became best-sellers: “I Hear You Knocking,” “Teenage Prayer” and “Dark Moon.” This time she played Susanna Pomeroy, a trouble-making social director on a luxury liner. The year after “My Little Margie” ended its 126-episode run in 1955, she moved on to “The Gale Storm Show” (also known as “Oh! Susanna”) which lasted until 1960. The premise was standard sitcom fare: Charles Farrell was a business executive and eligible widower, Storm was his busybody daughter who protected him from predatory women. It quickly became an audience favorite and moved to its own slot on NBC that fall. “My Little Margie” debuted on CBS as a summer replacement for “I Love Lucy” in 1952. #GALE STORM IT HAPPENED ON 5TH MOVIE#With her movie roles diminishing in the early 1950s, Storm followed the path of many fading movie stars of the day and moved on to television. As she would smile and ride alongside Rogers while the king of the cowboys crooned a song, Trigger (out of camera range) would lean over and bite her horse’s neck. She appeared in three Republic westerns with Rogers and recalled that his horse Trigger did what he could to cause her trouble. “I only rode them because that’s what you had to do.” “I was really scared of horses,” she admitted in 2000.
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