BONUS - Five Favorites: Broadway is My Beat
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 150 minutes
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Summary
Take a walk down the Great White Way with Detective Danny Clover in my five favorite episodes of Broadway is My Beat. Larry Thor is the policeman with the soul of a poet in one of radio's finest dramas - detective or otherwise. We'll hear "The Suicide Pact Murders" (originally aired on CBS on August 21, 1950), "The Garment District Murders" (originally aired on CBS on April 14, 1951), "The Case of Charles Crandall" (originally aired on CBS on May 12, 195), "The Tom Keeler Case" (originally aired on CBS on September 22, 1951), and "The Gridiron Hero Murders" (originally aired on CBS on November 22, 1952).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. |
| 0:02.1 | Crime is a sucker's road. |
| 0:03.9 | And those who travel |
| 0:04.6 | it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:12.3 | The story you were about to hear is true. |
| 0:15.2 | Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.6 | The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective. |
| 0:21.7 | The Adventures of the Saint, |
| 0:23.4 | starring Vincent Price. |
| 0:25.5 | Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures |
| 0:27.7 | of the man with the action-packed expense account. |
| 0:30.6 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator... |
| 0:33.4 | Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. |
| 1:05.7 | ... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello. Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets, and I'm starting off with an apology. |
| 1:11.3 | Due to some travel and some family obligations, I couldn't get a show out this past Sunday. |
| 1:19.1 | So before our next regular episode, I wanted to bring back a past bonus series, where I share my five favorite episodes of a radio detective show. And for this round, the favorites are from |
| 1:25.3 | Broadway is My Beat. It's a show that's grown into one of my |
| 1:30.4 | all-time favorites thanks to its writing, directing, and acting. The writing is courtesy of Morton |
| 1:36.8 | Fine and David Friedkin, the dynamic duo behind great radio shows like crime classics, the |
| 1:43.6 | anthology of historical true crime tales. |
| 1:47.0 | The show was directed by Elliot Lewis, also of crime classics, and one of radio's most creative talents. |
| 1:55.0 | And the acting is anchored by Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Now, Broadway is My Beat is technically a police procedural, |
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