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Broadway Is My Beat
Broadway Is My Beat
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Broadway Is My Beat

CBS

CBS · 1949–1953

Broadcasts

289

Cadence

Weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1949

The run

Network
CBS
Years active
1949–1953
Surviving broadcasts
289
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.

1953 · 41952 · 21951 · 21950 · 21949 · 2

Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Clean transfer · 22 of 40Listenable · 7 of 40Rough but complete · 11 of 40

Source collection

Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Broadway_Is_My_Beat_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

12 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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1952
1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. BIMB The Andrew Jenkins Case · 6 Mar 1949
  2. 2. BIMB The Tori Jones Murder Case · 10 Dec 1949
  3. 3. BIMB The Ernie Cauldwell Murder Case · 7 Apr 1950
  • 01

    BIMB The Andrew Jenkins Case

    6 Mar 1949 · 28 min

    Broadcast 6 March 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 02

    BIMB The Tori Jones Murder Case

    10 Dec 1949 · 29 min

    Broadcast 10 December 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 03

    BIMB The Ernie Cauldwell Murder Case

    7 Apr 1950 · 29 min

    Broadcast 7 April 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 04

    BIMB The Harry Brett Murder Case

    31 Jul 1950 · 29 min

    Broadcast 31 July 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 05

    BIMB The Harry Foster Murder Case

    5 May 1951 · 29 min

    Broadcast 5 May 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 06

    BIMB The Ed Koster Murder Case

    13 Oct 1951 · 29 min

    Broadcast 13 October 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 07

    BIMB The Eve Hunter Murder Case

    8 Mar 1952 · 30 min

    Broadcast 8 March 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 08

    BIMB The Mary Trevor Murder Case

    25 Oct 1952 · 30 min

    Broadcast 25 October 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

Same night on the air

6 Mar 1949

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1949.

Transmission

6 March

1949

Blackstone, the Magic Detective

Riddle Of Red Goose

Network

Mutual

Slot

Sunday

Running time

13 min

Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.

Internet ArchiveBlackstone_The_Magic_DetectiveCondition unmeasured

Transmission

6 March

1949

Screen Directors Playhouse

Screen Directors Playhouse A Foreign Affair

Network

NBC

Slot

Sunday

Running time

59 min

Broadcast 6 March 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_Screen_Directors_Playhouse_SinglesClean transfer · 128 kbps

Transmission

6 March

1949

The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show

Phil Harris 49-03-06 (093) The Kangaroo

Network

NBC

Slot

Sunday

Running time

29 min

Broadcast on Syndicated.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_Harris_Faye_SinglesCondition unmeasured

Also on CBS

CBS in 1949–1953

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