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"You walk the pavement, spangled with a thousand colors, but between the light…that's where the darkness is. It's Broadway…my beat."

Broadway is my Beat is a love affair with noir and hardboiled radio detective series blossomed during the 1940's. The golden age of radio had found a new following in the crime drama genre, and managed to churn out several note-worthy serializations. One of the more popular old time radio shows of the period was Broadway is my Beat which featured the talented Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Clover truly loved his beat on the colorful and gritty streets of Broadway and it shined through in his passion and dedication to his job. He tirelessly patrolled the city streets and instilled fear into the hoodlums and villains that threatened the peace. Remarkably enough, the program enjoyed a lengthy run from 1949-1954, unlike its other contemporaries who only lasted for a season. This old radio show was first produced in New York City, however, it was later moved to Hollywood under the directorship of Elliot Lewis. As a resident New Yorker himself, Lewis infused the show with an amazing mix of sounds and effects that effortlessly brought the vibrant and lively world of Broadway is my Beat to life on the radio.

“From Times Square to Columbus Circle – the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.”

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
03.06.1949	the andrew jenkins case	+ A missing hick from Indiana named Andrew Jenkins leads Lt. Clover to "Golden" Gold
03.27.1949	a fixed prize fight	+ Danny suspects a fix when the odds on a welterweight fight swing suddenly in the wrong way
05.01.1949	the mary murdock murder case	+ AFRTS rebroadcast. Mary Murdock is poisoned and dies right in Danny's office. Her husband, just o...
05.22.1949	julie dixon case	+ A "Cinderella Girl" named Julie Nixon has disappeared. Her wealthy finace, a high class attorney,...
07.07.1949	broadway is my best jimmy dorn case ep 1 1949 7 7	+ An ex-carnival performer named Jimmy Dorn wins $17,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes and promptly "com...
07.21.1949	the otto prokosh murder case	+ A good story about multiple murders in a vaudeville theatre, starting with Otto Procash, an athle...
07.28.1949	paul thomas case	+ Paul Thomas, a young, colored ex-convict who once helped Danny, is accused of a $1000,000 jewel ...
08.04.1949	dr robbie mcclure case	+ Doctor McClure dies in Danny's office, shot with a .22 calibre gun It's 9 o'clock in the evening ...
08.11.1949	jane darnell case	+ Scandal reporter Jed Stacy has received a prophesy in the mail...Jane Darnell will be found murder...
08.18.1949	silks bergen case	+ $100,000, a dead jockey and murderous bookies on Broadway. This is a network version of cat. #16...
08.25.1949	val dane case	+ Val Dane, a universally hated author, is found dead of starvation in a room full of food! This is...
11.05.1949	kuan yin statue case	+ Mai Ling sends a telegram that reads "terror follows me." The Kuan Yuen statuette has been stolen,...
11.05.1949	the mei ling murder case
11.12.1949	the sgt gordon ellis murder case	+ Tommy Mannon, a hoodlum about to blow the whistle on some big shots, is attacked on the street ri...
11.12.1949	tommy mannon case	+ Detective Danny Clover is waiting in front of the grey stone building on Broadway which is the pol...
11.19.1949	eugene bullock case	+ Eugene Bullock from Iowa is found dead in a crummy Sanitarium, his $5000 missing. The program may...
11.26.1949	morrie brandeis case	+ Maurie Brandeis, a nice Jewish boy, is going to be executed for murder on Monday. Larry Thor's v...
11.26.1949	the mary gilbert murder case
12.03.1949	sherman gates case	+ Sherman Gates is found poisoned in the loge of a movie theatre, which leads to a murdered photogr...
12.10.1949	tori jones case	+ An action-packed murder story set in the garment district. A beautiful model named Torry Jones is ...
12.17.1949	henry baker case	+ A nice guy named Henry Baker is trying to give away $50,000 while his brother is trying to stop hi...
12.24.1949	nick norman santa claus	+ A Christmas show. Nick Norman is just out of Sing Sing after fifteen years and is scheduled to pl...
12.31.1949	the john lomax murder case	+ John Lomax is drunk in a hotel room, even though he was killed by a hit-and-run driver! Mr. Loma...
01.07.1950	the mary murdock murder case	+ Mary Murdock is poisoned and dies right in Danny's office. Her husband, just out of Sing Sing aft...
01.21.1950	john gales case	+ John Gail is found dead in a flower shop...with the burglar alarm still ringing. Possibly dated ...

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I love Broadway's My Beat and i love every episode

Regina

Broadway Is My Beat. The picturesque writing is beautiful.

Jerry

I agree,the prose is quite poetic.I never tire of hearing Larry Thor's voice. And I love the character Tartaglia.Though I doubt that is how it should be spelled.

malcolm carter

Great show!

Brian

I LOVE that show.

Cheryl

"You walk the pavement, spangled with a thousand colors, but between the light…that's where the darkness is. It's Broadway…my beat."

When

Love that show. Its writers, Morton Fine and David Friedkin were among the best.

Peter

Excellent show.

Snooks

I love the writing! Sometimes Larry Thor reads the descriptive passages too quickly.

Jerry

To fast for me..to many words..i would love to like this...but its to much like Dragnet..."overspokin" - Lee

Lee

One of my favorites. I love the writing, and I love Thor as Clover. He played the role with so much heart.

Jodi

Great show.

Bill

BROADWAY IS MY BEAT and SAM SPADE make an unbeatable combination this morning on THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO, along with our regular serials JACK ARMSTRONG and THE AVENGERS, Saturday Feb 27 at 11 AM EST on the web at yesterdayusa.com. On THE AVENGERS, Emma Peel searches for the kidnapped John Steed, who is being duplicated by plastic surgery to sabotage a peace conference in Spain. Chapters 3 and 4 of “Too Many Oles” from Springbok Radio South Africa 1972. There's a new tribe of unfriendly headhunters coming after Jack and his party on JACK ARMSTRONG, THE ALL-AMERICAN BOY. Chapters 13 and 14 of “Country of the Headhunters” from Wednesday and Thursday, Dec 18 & 19, 1940. Premiering this day in history, Feb 27, 1949, perhaps the greatest cop show on radio – BROADWAY IS MY BEAT! Larry Thor is Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Sgt Gino Tartaglia and Jack Kruschen as Detective Muggavan, and terrific scripts by the writing team of Morton Fine and David Friedkin, produced and directed by Elliott Lewis. From CBS Feb 14, 1953 “The Artie Blanchard Case”. A man is found dead with his pockets stuffed with money. With Tony Barrett, Bob Sweeney, Benny Rubin, Barbara Eiler, Louise Louis, George Peroni, and James McCallion. Announcer Bill Anders. Today is also the birthday (b. 1921) of award-winning writer E Jack Neuman, who mostly did work on detective, crime, and mystery shows, but also adapted books to radio and wrote biographies for THE HALLMARK HALL OF FAME. According to his obit in the LA Times, he worked his way through law school writing for radio. His work appeared often on such series as SUSPENSE, YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR, THE LINE-UP, ESCAPE, JEFF REGAN, and ROCKY JORDAN, and he was often paired with fellow writer John Michael Hayes. He left radio to write TV shows like Mr Novak and Dr Kildare. Today we'll hear his script for the last surviving episode of THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE to feature Howard Duff in the lead “The Farmer's Daughter Caper” from Sept 03, 1950.

Mike

love this show.

David

Maybe this is just too obvious to mention, but I've been really struck lately by the difference in acting styles between shows made in the 1930s-40s and those made in the 1950s -- between, say, Broadway is my Beat and the mid-1950s incarnation of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Not that the actors in all shows made at the same time sound the same, but just that there seems to be a shift to a more naturalistic, intimate, less histrionic style, similar to what you see in movie acting. It's not Method voice acting, exactly, it just seems less theatrical; the older shows tend to sound much stagier to me, and while they can be very entertaining, I don't find them as engrossing. This reminds me of how singers like Crosby and Sinatra learned to adapt the new microphone technology to create a more intimate style of singing. Many of these later radio actors, too, seem to me to have learned a more intimate, conversational style of line-reading. I'm constantly amazed, for instance, at what skilled pros Bob Bailey and his cohorts are on YTJD, or the cast of Gunsmoke. The perfection of their timing and the little naturalistic touches are striking in a way that I don't think would have been common in an earlier decade. Anyhow, just some random thoughts...

Pat

Featuring this crime drama featuring Detective Danny Glover whose New York Police Department beat is on Times Square. About the best NYPD radio crime dramas series ever aired. It was broadcast on CBS from 1949 to 1954.

BROADWAY IS MY BEAT

I come back to this show again and again, the lush style, the expansive and alliterative descriptions of life on Broadway are enveloping. When Detective Clover shifts over to the crime and the place it feels like being taken behind the scenes, where tourists are never allowed, to see life and death in the big city. The big city filled with people like you've never met before and could only meet because you are tagging along with Danny on his beat. Broadway, the loneliest mile in the world.

Edwin

Was Clover a detective or detective lieutenant? Seems I heard him being addressed as lieutenant on a couple of occasions. Big difference between the two in the NYPD.

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