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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
03.22.1952	the john mooney murder case	+ A thousand-dollar bill from a five-year-old robbery turns up. Was it passed Les Cheney? He was re...
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...
04.05.1952	the john elgin murder case	+ John Elgin has committed suicide...or was he pushed off the roof of his building? This is a netw...
01.05.1952	the john dobson murder case	+ John Dobson is found poisoned, the second husband of Mrs. Dobson to die within two years
11.10.1951	the joey macklin john howard murder case	+ "The Poisoning". A good story about a wealthy man living on the Bowery on a bet and poisoned by...
08.22.1953	the joey herbie and beebe murder case	+ Nancy Lee has promised to die within four years. She beats her deadline by four days...helped by...
06.23.1952	the joey croft murder case	+ AFRS-FEN rebroadcast. Joey Croft's body has been found buried in the sand at Coney Island...with...
01.24.1953	the joey condon murder case	+ Joey Condon calls the cops to say that he's dying. He was a trumpet player with a friend named La...
02.21.1953	the joe turner murder case	+ A rookie cop named Joe Turner has been stabbed. his wife goes berserk and tries to kill the cop's...
07.08.1951	the joe gruber murder case	+ An armed robber is a killer. He's holed up in a second floor apartment, but when the cops break i...
11.03.1951	the joe blair murder case	+ Joe Blair, a vagrant spending the night in a swank hotel, if found knifed. Another body is found ...
06.20.1953	the joan stanley murder case	+ Joan Parker has been knifed to death. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have a marriage made in heaven. Beautif...
11.17.1950	the joan fuller murder case	+ Joan Fuller has been found floating in the lake in Central Park. She's a rich woman's maid, and sh...
11.27.1953	the janice bennett murder case
05.19.1950	the jane arnold murder case	+ Jane Arnold has been poisoned and dies while working as a magician's assistant at a meeting of Th...
08.07.1950	the jack jorno murder case	+ A young boxer named Jack Jornow is found dead in an alley
05.17.1952	the irene hall murder case	+ Irene Hall and another beautiful woman have been killed, two suspects are being held. Who did wha...
08.05.1951	the howard crawford murder case	+ Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. The program is delayed for two minutes for an appeal by Bob Hope for ass...
03.31.1950	the hope anderson murder case	+ Hope Anderson has been found shot in a fountain, her boyfriend is shot...and so is Danny Clover. ...
08.08.1953	the hilda bruce murder case	+ Hilda Bruce is found murdered with her young son stunned by her side
01.31.1953	the helen selby murder case	+ Helen Selby has been murdered. The clue to her killer lies with the old men. This is a network ve...
10.13.1950	the helen carrol murder case	+ Linda Arnold is wandering in a daze, not remembering her name, and with a blood covered letter o...
06.02.1952	the harry moore murder case	+ Harry Moore has been killed...but what about his strange wife
04.25.1953	the harry gray murder case	+ Harry Gray has been murdered...a most unusual veteran with shrapnel in his neck
07.11.1953	the harry brian murder case

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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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