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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 239 – Broadway Is My Beat

A Christmas gift – one of my favorite police detective series is Broadway Is My Beat with Larry Thor as Danny Clover and Charles Calvert (right) as Sgt. Tataglia. The series had at least one Christmas themed episode which is offered here in this last podcast of 2014. Enjoy and Merry Christmas. Music under is “New York at Christmas” sung… (more…)

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 100 – Night Beat & Broadway Is My Beat

100th podcast of this series! This week I want to return to two series with detective elements as well as what I call radio noir aspects in their productions. A special double-header focusing on the writing, the darkness and the pulse of two of the better radio series with crime detection themes. Night Beat with its gravel-voiced character played by… (more…)

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 42 – I Cover the Waterfront

“I’ve been here so long, even the seagulls must recognize me. They must pass the word along about me from generation to generation, from egg to egg.” This week a program that never became a series. Based loosely on the best selling book by Max Miller, this William N. Robson production starred Larry Thor as Joe Miller, a reporter cum… (more…)