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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Broadway's My Beat: The Jimmy Dorn Murder (EP4457)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: An ex-circus performer who won $17,000 in an Irish Sweepstakes supposedly committed suicide but Danny suspsects murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 7, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Wally Maher; Howard McNear

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1:24.0

Broadway's My Beat ended its New York run on May 29th of 1949.

1:31.0

On July 7th, a new version premiered in Hollywood as a summer replacement for the FBI and

1:37.7

peace and war with none of the creative teams or actors from the New York version attached.

1:44.0

Essentially, the only carryover would be the lead character's name,

1:50.0

as well as some iconic lines of dialogue.

1:54.4

There has to be a story behind this,

1:57.9

but I have no clue what it is.

2:01.8

The only thing I can come up with is that the concept came from

2:06.3

Lester Gottlieb of the CBS Programming Department so it wasn't like some outside writer came and pitched this concept to

2:16.7

CBS and they bought it and so therefore they had to be attached the series was

2:22.0

CBS's property and it could do anything with it it wanted. But why they did what they did is a mystery.

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