The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1949–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 153
- Genre
- noir
BROADWAY'S MY BEAT Broadway's My Beat , a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With music by Robert Stringer, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air, with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
10 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Amelia Lane Murder Case · 1 Nov 1952
- 2. The Bob Foster Murder Case · 8 Nov 1952
- 3. The Kenny Purdue Murder Case · 15 Nov 1952
The Joey Herbie and Beebe Murder Case
22 Aug 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 August 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Mrs Webb Murder Case
15 Aug 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 August 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Hilda Bruce Murder Case
8 Aug 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 August 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Joyce Tyler Murder Case
1 Aug 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 August 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Stacy Parker Murder Case
25 Jul 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Ted Lawrence Murder Case
18 Jul 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Harry Brian Murder Case
11 Jul 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The John Rand Murder Case
4 Jul 1953 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1949–1953
Other series the network carried while Broadway Is My Beat was on the air.
Same seasons
noir on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Broadway Is My Beat
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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