Episode 10 - Stories Start in Many Different Ways (Night Beat)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2013
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, we'll walk the streets of Chicago after dark, tagging along with Frank Lovejoy on Night Beat. Lovejoy stars as reporter Randy Stone, who searches for human interest stories in the darkness and often finds trouble. We'll hear "The Football Player and the Syndicate," first broadcast on NBC on June 12, 1950.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Down These Mean Streets, bringing you an episode of one of the best Radio Detective Adventure on Down These Mean Streets. |
| 0:33.0 | Today it's an episode of one of the best dramas to come out of the Golden Age of Radio, |
| 0:38.0 | Night Beat, the story of a dogged reporter searching Chicago after dark for stories of crime and the human condition. |
| 0:46.4 | The show aired on NBC from 1950 to 1952 and starred radio and film veteran Frank Lovejoy as Chicago reporter. and Stone frequently found himself tangling with shady characters as he tried to get to the bottom of a story or when he came to the aid of a hard luck case. |
| 1:08.0 | Even though he didn't set out to, Stone would often wind up on the wrong end of a gun or in a tight spot before he made his deadline at the paper. |
| 1:16.0 | Unfortunately, Knight Beat premiered on NBC as the network had its sights set on television and the show carried on for two years without |
| 1:25.6 | major promotion or network support before it left the airwaves. |
| 1:29.8 | In the Golden Age's last decade, Nightbeat was one of its brightest stars, and it's a well-written, |
| 1:35.0 | well-cast show that is perfect for new fans of this medium to discover and enjoy today. |
| 1:41.7 | So now let's listen to Nightbeat and the football player and the |
| 1:45.4 | Syndicate an episode that first aired on NBC on June 12th 1950. Russell Hughes |
| 1:51.6 | wrote the script and Warren Lewis directed. Frank Lovejoy is backed up in this show by |
| 1:56.9 | Jeanette Nolan, Ted Von Elts, Norman Field, and radio veteran William Conrad. Wheaties presents Nightbeat. |
| 2:17.0 | Wheaties presents Nightbeat, another in the |
| 2:29.1 | Wheaties big parade of exciting half hour presentations. |
| 2:33.0 | Night feet. Hi, this is Randy Stone. I cover the night beat for the Chicago Star. |
| 2:55.0 | Stories start in many different ways. This one began when I bumped into a wonderful |
| 3:01.1 | legend out of the past and watch that legend die before my eyes. |
| 3:06.0 | Nightbeat starring Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone. be stone. The Jackie Robinson story should be showing at your neighborhood theater |
| 3:19.3 | very soon and I'm mighty proud to suggest that you go and take the family because besides being the famous Brooklyn Dodgers that case |
| 3:26.9 | Jackie is famous to me as a real true Wheaties champion. |
| 3:30.9 | He eats Wheaties about four times a week and that's what I like to hear. |
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