Broadway's My Beat: The Anna Compton Murder Case (EP4908)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 15, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Howard McNear; Billy Halop; Lou Krugman; Joe Forte; Frances Chaney
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the great detectives of old-time radio from Boise, Idaho. |
| 0:35.1 | This is your host, Adam Graham. |
| 0:37.9 | In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Broadway's My Beat. |
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| 1:20.4 | Now, from September 15th, 1951, here is the Anna Compton murder case. |
| 1:39.9 | Music In 1951, here is the Anna Compton murder case. Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. |
| 1:54.6 | Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. |
| 1:58.7 | Music Terry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. |
| 2:09.7 | When it's September, and the summer sighs away, |
| 2:11.6 | Broadway is festooned with the colors of fall. |
| 2:14.5 | The pastels of the cotton dresses |
| 2:16.1 | mixed sadly with the brown and gray of the flannel. |
| 2:19.0 | And here and there, Broadway shapely foliage turns to plaid. It's the time of the quickened step |
| 2:24.4 | and the crumpled travel folder and coney-died beaver. And the September song is a deep-throated |
| 2:30.6 | sound, the mob voice, the hay fever, and the oysters being torn from the half-shell. |
| 2:35.9 | Another season, kid, one more three-month band to get where you're going. |
| 2:46.6 | In the autumn days, have their six o'clock in the morning time, the just beginning another day time. |
| 2:51.9 | It was a street where Broadway turns a corner into the 40s, where I was, and Detective Mugovan and a woman. |
| 2:58.6 | She's in here, Danny, this car. |
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