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Set against the bright lights of theater marquis and bleak alleys behind flophouses,

Broadway is my beat premiered on radio 67 years ago on February 27th 1949. The series followed Detective Danny Clover as

he walked the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world, from Times Square to Columbus Circle.

CBS promoted its new detective as knowing everything about Broadway,

from Pan-handled to Operatic Prima Donna, but still sentimental about the street.

The show was one of the very best to come out of the Golden Age of radio, not just among detective shows, but one of the finest programs the

medium ever produced, a show that plays just as powerfully today as it did so many years

ago.

Anthony Ross, a veteran of the Broadway stage, was the first actor to play Danny Clover.

Ross may be best known as the first actor to play The Gentleman Coller in Tennessee Williams

the Glass Menagerie. Ross originated the role on stage in 1944. His stage credits included the original productions of Arsenic and Old Lace and Bus Stop.

Ross starred as Clover from February to June 1949 for the first 14 episodes of the show originating from New York.

These shows were written by Peter Lyon and directed by John Deets, a regular director

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In June of 1949, CBS made the decision to move production of the show from New York to Los Angeles, and most of the cast and crew stayed behind in the Big Apple.

Writing duties were assumed by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, two of the best writers working in radio.

The director's chair was filled by Fine and Friedkin's frequent collaborator, Elliot Lewis,

a jack of all trades on radio, actor, and director.

At the same time, Lewis was about to take the reins at CBS's hit anthology series,

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