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"Do not pay too much attention to their answers, as they often lie."

+ The Lineup radio show is an American police drama which aired on CBS radio from 1950 to 1953 and on CBS television from 1954 to 1960, possibly in response to NBC's hit Dragnet.

The radio version depicted the investigations of Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Sergeant Matt Grebb, detectives in the police force of an unnamed "great American city." Bill Johnstone, one of several actors to play The Shadow on radio, portrayed Guthrie, while Grebb was played by Wally Maher.-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Lineup

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
04.29.1952	the line up (083) the big boy's brutish back bending case
05.06.1952	the line up (84) babs the baggy bungling brunette bombshell
06.10.1952	the line up (89) lobdell's poodle cut tomato case aka hit run accident	+ Sponsored by: Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. Mrs. Lobdell has been killed by a hit and run driver, and f...
06.17.1952	the line up (102) bad boy
06.24.1952	the line up (91) the cutie calling culprit case aka obscene phone calls	+ "The Cutie-Calling Culprit Case". Sponsored by: Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. Beautiful models have be...
07.01.1952	the line up (92) the guided gang case	+ Sponsored by: Wrigley's Gun. Young Johnny Long has been arrested for beating up and robbing an eld...
07.08.1952	the line up (93) the lugar lugging laddie case	+ Six different drugstores have been robbed. The program has also been dated September 17, 1952, but...
07.15.1952	the line up (94) the twitching twists twenty two tweaking case	+ Sponsored by: Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. A witness sees the kidnapping of a young girl named Mary Ja...
07.22.1952	the line up (107) the drinkler kidnapping	+ "The Drinkler Kidnapping Case". The show has a good shoot-'em-up conclusion.
07.29.1952	the line up (108) the stanley farmer murder	+ Sponsored by: Wrigley's Spearmint. Albert Brown has been found in his basement, killed with a shot...
08.05.1952	the line up (109) phantom burglar	+ Sponsored by: Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. 9:00 P.M. "The Phantom Burglar," preying on only one neighb...
09.10.1952	the line up (098) the jane doe case (aka ludlow park jane doe)	+ Sponsored by: Wrigley's Spearmint. Mrs. Kramer has been attacked by a man who selects women whose ...
09.17.1952	the line up (099) the fresno break case (aka george forbes)	+ Mrs Weiss has to identify from a line-up the men that held up a liquor store the night before last...
10.01.1952	the line up (101) the poker party killings (aka card party)
10.08.1952	the line up one dead husband	+ A narcotics dealer has been murdered. He had been living with a proper schoolteacher under a diffe...
10.15.1952	the line up (115) dead man found in alley	+ "Bentley's Boo-Boo Case". A liquor store has been robbed and the owner murdered.
10.22.1952	the line up (116) drugstory robbery	+ "The Green Cap Case". The attendant at a gas station has been shot dead.
10.29.1952	the line up (117) ludlow park jane doe	+ "The Sobbing Sister Saga". A night club singer's husband has been robbed and killed.
11.05.1952	the line up (118) george forbes	+ "The Be-Bop Bandits Bungling Bang-Bang". While the cops are watching a line-up just for fun, a r...
11.12.1952	the line up (119) grieving families cheated	+ "The Buggered Bunco Boys". A con-man has been preying on the families of dead soldiers. + Two m...
11.19.1952	the line up (120) jean bellamy murdered aka young woman murdered (1)	+ "The Modern Sounds Case". Sponsored by: Plymouth. Jean Belamine has been murdered. She was killed...
11.26.1952	the line up (109) the matthews murray mish mosh case aka betty mathews	+ "The Matthews-Murray Mish-Mosh Case". Mrs. Matthews has been missing for a day. A door-to-door g...
12.03.1952	the line up (122) betty matthews
12.12.1952	the line up (110) the gasoline bandit case aka gas station holdups
12.17.1952	the line up narcotics

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This series is another police drama series right up there with Dragnet. It stars Bill Johnstone as San Francisco Police Lieutenant Ben Guthrie. It was broadcast by CBS at various times and dates from 1950 to 1953.

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I had been listening to episodes of The Line Up. I think I had heard maybe a third of them, when someone in this group mentioned that Howard McNear ("Floyd the Barber") was in almost every episode, in some small role or other. I had not ever noticed that, before then. But now, I can't not notice it. There are some episodes, where he played 3 different roles!

Jim