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Broadway Is My Beat

1949–1954 · 170 episodes · 634 listens

Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954.

The series followed the hardened New York City homicide detective Danny Clover as he investigated cases “from Times Square to Columbus Circle - the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.” The opening theme of “I’ll Take Manhattan” set the tone for the show, which blended gritty crime stories with poetic narration and a rich aural tapestry of Manhattan’s sights and sounds.

The Stars

Detective Danny Clover was portrayed by two actors over the course of the series. Anthony Ross originated the role when the show was broadcast from New York City through May 1949. Larry Thor then took over the part when the series moved production to Hollywood in July 1950. The supporting cast included regulars Charles Calvert as Sgt. Gino Tartaglia and Jack Kruschen as Sgt. Muggavan, as well as a rotating ensemble of television, radio, and film actors who filled episodic roles.

Key Dates

  • Broadway Is My Beat debuted on CBS on February 27, 1949 and ran for over five years, with the final episode airing on August 1, 1954.
  • The series originated from New York City for the first year and a half, before moving production to Hollywood in July 1949. Anthony Ross portrayed Detective Clover until June 1950, when Larry Thor took over the lead role.

Other Information

The series featured music by Wilbur Hatch and Alexander Courage, as well as the talents of three sound effects technicians who helped recreate the aural tapestry of Manhattan. Broadway Is My Beat was praised by Variety magazine for its “smoothly meshing production gears, solid performances by an ace cast and some first-rate musical scoring.” While the show’s focus was on the gritty crime stories, the narration often ended on a pensive, melancholy note, with Clover philosophizing about the “gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world” that was his beat.

Cast & Crew

EElliott LewisProducer · DirectorAAlexander CourageMusicAAnthony RossActorIIrene TedrowActorBBarney PhillipsActorLLamont JohnsonActorHHerb VigranActorEEdgar BarrierActorBBetty Lou GersonActorBBill BoucheyActorBBen WrightActorSSheldon LeonardActorMMartha WentworthActorPPaula WinsloweActorEEve McVeaghActorBBill AndersAnnouncerDDavid LightJJohn DietzDirectorLLarry ThorActorMMorton FineWriterWWilbur HatchMusicDDavid FriedkinWriterLLester GottliebProducerRRalph CummingsCCharles CalvertActorRRobert StringerMusicRRoss MurrayJJack KruschenActorCCharlotte LawrenceActorHHerb EllisActorHHy AverbackActorSSam EdwardsActorTTony BarrettActorGGe Ge PearsonActorBByron KaneActorSSammie HillActorEEddie FieldsActorMMary ShippActorHHarry BartellActorLLawrence DobkinActorAAnne WhitfieldActorTTruda MarsonActorHHerb ButterfieldActorJJunius MatthewsActorMMary Jane CroftActor

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Episodes

Apr 11, 1953 · 28:04
It's April on Broadway and a man lies on the floor of an executive apartment, blood oozing from a stab wound. The dead…
Apr 12, 1952 · 29:32
Lois Conrad is found stabbed to death at Globe Secretarial School and later Mrs Sylvia Hewitt the owner of the school…
Apr 14, 1950 · 28:55
It was 11.30 at night and Detective Danny Clover was on his way home. He didn’t make it, a squad car picked him up and…
Apr 14, 1951 · 30:21
Tonight’s story takes Danny Clover to 39th street just off Seventh Avenue in the garment centre, a man sprawled on the…
Apr 18, 1953 · 29:02
Danny is sat in his office when a man and woman enter. The woman is called Myra Fuller and she has a very strange tale…
Apr 21, 1950 · 28:50
Detective Danny Clover arrives at the place of the violent death, an expensive room in an expensive hotel and the dead…
Apr 21, 1951 · 29:49
Philip Hunt was a businessman in securities and investments and had retired about two years ago to enjoy himself. But…
Apr 25, 1953 · 29:44
At headquarters, Danny's on the night watch when he gets a phone call from a man who reports that his best friend has…
Apr 28, 1950 · 30:04
Today, Danny received a message from reformed addict, Max Wendell, who said he needed to see him right away, at his…
Apr 28, 1951 · 28:38
Clover received a call, a girl dying from a jackknife in a dance palace on Broadway but when he arrived he found he…
Apr 4, 1953 · 24:51
It's 5 o'clock and Danny is down on the banks of the East River where he has been summoned by the harbour police to a…
Apr 5, 1952 · 29:43
John Elgin was a reported suicide until someone comes forward and says that they saw he was pushed.
Apr 7, 1950 · 27:10
Mrs Webster had been waiting for some time to talk to Danny Clover and Clover could put it off no longer. Her husband…
Aug 1, 1953 · 28:53
It was 6:30 when Detective Danny Clover arrived at the home of Joyce Tyler to a call of violence, violence that had not…
Aug 1, 1954 · 29:54
A few days ago Mike Paulos had had an argument with Floyd Decker and since then Decker hadn’t been seen and word on the…
Aug 11, 1949 · 29:01
Broadway is full of people that are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one of them if you put the pieces together right…
Aug 14, 1950 · 29:45
Danny Clover is standing in a room at Mrs Branch's rooming house. Everything needs a good clean, and some care and…
Aug 15, 1953 · 30:02
Mrs Webb had been sleeping and dreaming and in her dream she couldn’t breath. But as she came to she found she couldn’t…
Aug 18, 1949 · 29:12
Silks Bergen was a jockey about five hands high he waved to Detective Danny Clover from a haberdashery store. He wanted…
Aug 2, 1952 · 24:46
Georgie Beck is a pickpocket and a thief who is convinced that somebody is following him. He calls the police to tell…
Aug 21, 1950 · 29:06
Danny Clover receives a desperate phone call crying for help from a Mrs. Corey. She said they had a suicide pact but…
Aug 22, 1953 · 29:46
At the ground floor apartment of a rooming house off Broadway, Detective Muggavan and Danny Clover are there to…
Aug 25, 1949 · 29:24
"From Time Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the most lonesome mile in the world Broadway is…
Aug 26, 1951 · 29:35
A lady has wandered in off the street, asking for help. Her name is Elizabeth Price, and initially she appears to be…
Aug 29, 1953 · 29:20
At police headquarters, the quality of stillness is focused in the staring eyes of Miss Scott, who sits primly in the…
Aug 4, 1949 · 28:45
It's 9 o'clock in the evening and Danny is trying to clear up the paperwork covering his desk when Dr. McClure walks in…
Aug 5, 1951 · 29:29
With the arrival of August, it feels like another summer is rushing away. Uptown, Danny Clover is at an outdoor…
Aug 7, 1950 · 29:15
Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are in an alley off Broadway, where the body of a young boxer named Jack Jorno has…
Aug 8, 1953 · 28:46
In a brownstone tenement, someone has killed Jimmy Bruce's mom. When Danny and Detective Muggavan arrive, they find her…
Dec 1, 1950 · 28:55
Detective Muggavan arrives at the scene first, to an apartment on West 56th, where there's a man laying with a knife in…
Dec 10, 1949 · 28:58
Starring Larry Thor. It's Broadway the fury that sweeps you up then throws you in the gutter. It's 2a.m. Detective…
Dec 15, 1951 · 29:26
Charlie Baker comes home from an office party to discover his wife dead. A workmate who had been having an affair with…
Dec 17, 1949 · 29:48
It's Broadway a big cage, a cage where the animal cries you heard were your own. One bright December morning and Danny…
Dec 20, 1952 · 27:26
James Barton, a nineteen year old kid, found lying beaten to a pulp in an alley. He wasn't mugged, as his pockets are…
Dec 22, 1951 · 30:13
Desk sergeant Gino Tortaglio, Danny Clover’s strong right, is going to get lots of knick-knacks for Christmas but what…
Dec 24, 1949 · 29:34
It's Christmas Eve on Broadway, creatures are stirring in police H.Q. In the office of Danny Clover Nick Norman the…
Dec 29, 1951 · 23:23
In an alley a shoe salesman is discovered beaten to death. An ex boxer named Ross Lock who the guy picked on in a bar…
Dec 3, 1949 · 28:42
It's the glittering centre of the glittering universe it's Broadway. It's after midnight and a voice calls out Danny to…
Dec 31, 1949 · 29:25
Detective Danny Clover is called to the Dover Hotel to attend to a man who is drunk in his hotel room. The man tells…
Dec 6, 1952 · 27:55
It seems a sniper is on the loose randomly taking pot shots at defenceless women. The police think they are looking for…
Dec 8, 1950 · 28:46
It’s the time of year when everyone is happy but the atmosphere hasn’t touched the dark alleys littered and dark except…
Dec 8, 1951 · 29:31
It was almost midnight and the Do Not Disturb sign had been on the rented room all day at the Savannah. That’s when the…
Feb 10, 1950 · 28:52
The scene is set at a wrestling match where Detective Danny Clover has gone to see Alex Malvin a rich Lawyer who's…
Feb 14, 1953 · 29:11
On Broadway it's toward the tail end of the February winter winds, whipping around corners. But on top of the Hotel…
Feb 16, 1952 · 29:42
Raymond Grant is a milkman who is found on the doorstep of graduate student Carol Daly brutally murdered. Later Carol…
Feb 17, 1950 · 27:19
It came at noon, a transcript of a phone conversation requesting the extraordinary pleasure of the company of Detective…
Feb 21, 1953 · 29:36
On a side street near the Hudson River docks, Danny Clover and his colleague find the body of a man stabbed to death.…
Feb 24, 1950 · 28:50
It was daytime and Detective Danny Clover was busy in his office writing up paperwork when Rhoda Lynn turned up again…
Feb 28, 1953 · 28:24
Danny is on duty. It's 5am in the morning, and there's a squad car parked outside of a pet shop. The owner, John Perry,…
Feb 3, 1950 · 29:00
It was early on January morning and Detective Danny Clover had not even had time for his coffee or paper before a call…
Feb 7, 1953 · 29:19
The February winds spin, dance and race in the morning on Broadway, and solace is found in the corner coffee stand, the…
Jan 10, 1953 · 29:12
Miss Longville had called the police to her friend, Lona Hanson’s house. Each time she visited the house was always…
Jan 12, 1952 · 29:41
The light filters the corridor as Detective Larry Thor walks with a man who has just been acquitted of the murder of…
Jan 17, 1953 · 29:38
Detective Danny Clover is at some empty, abandoned tenements to arrest a murder suspect - but it doesn't go to plan…
Jan 19, 1952 · 28:20
Detective Danny Clover was at the New York City morgue with the father of the deceased girl who had been found in the…
Jan 21, 1950 · 29:12
From Times Square to Columbus Circus - the gaudiest, the most violent, the most lonesome mile in the world. Broadway is…
Jan 24, 1953 · 29:21
At headquarters, Danny has finished for the day and he's supposed to be heading over to Gino's place for a delicious…
Jan 26, 1952 · 28:57
Somebody shot at Russ Warner at the cribbage club but Russ wasn’t saying who it was or how it happened; however later…
Jan 31, 1950 · 29:12
It's 11.45pm on a January night and detective Danny Clover is in his office when he receives a call from an anonymous…
Jan 31, 1953 · 29:29
In the cold of winter, Broadway is seen through a misty chill, and it's that time again where everyone is heading to…
Jan 5, 1952 · 29:08
John Dobson who had a Park Avenue address was brought in to the police emergency hospital after being found in a…
Jan 7, 1950 · 30:04
You use the morning hours at Police headquarters to tidy up, to dust off the old reports and polish up the new ones.…
Jul 10, 1950 · 30:04
Danny Clover is at Police headquarters considering the view, but he's interrupted with a call that a man has been found…
Jul 11, 1953 · 29:33
Charlie Downs was out walking late by the river when he saw two men fighting real hard. Then one guy threw the other…
Jul 11, 1954 · 30:07
It was four o’clock in the morning and Detective Danny Clover was caught up between the sobs of Miss Smallwood who was…
Jul 17, 1950 · 28:30
At headquarters, a slip of paper has been left on Danny Clover's desk, with the announcement of a violent death. "In…
Jul 18, 1953 · 29:06
In the apartment a man shot in his spine and kneeling against his body a woman dressed in silk, Sylvia Austin trying to…
Jul 18, 1954 · 30:27
Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are interviewing Mr Lloyd, a man who has voluntarily come into the station to tell…
Jul 21, 1949 · 29:31
It's an unbearably hot, summer's afternoon, and in the police headquarters, the coolest place to be is in the…
Jul 22, 1951 · 29:27
As Danny is about to leave the station, he hears the sound of a man running down the hall behind him. It's the…
Jul 24, 1950 · 25:04
The apartment was expensive but something had gone wrong, the upended furniture the torn drapes, the paintings…
Jul 25, 1953 · 28:13
It was 11.30 pm when Detective Danny Clover arrived at the jewellery shop on West 46th to meet Detective Muggavan at…
Jul 25, 1954 · 29:49
Danny Clover was at Los Amigos Athletic Club on the second floor where a man had been slugged. Jesses Anderson and…
Jul 28, 1949 · 28:43
It's 9 o'clock in the morning when Paul Thomas, a reformed criminal, calls Danny over. Danny is pleased to find out…
Jul 3, 1950 · 27:21
A slip of paper is tossed carelessly onto Danny Clover's desk, and on it are the words "Homicide. Olympian Hotel. Room…
Jul 31, 1950 · 29:28
In a little joint called the 34th Club, on a side street off Broadway, a dead man rests his head on the keys of a…
Jul 4, 1953 · 28:47
An elderly and very wealthy cotton importer and processor has died. The doctor says it was from natural causes, but the…
Jul 5, 1952 · 29:26
In the apartment where Danny Clover and detective Muggavan were there was a man huddled in death, shot, murdered. It…
Jul 7, 1949 · 28:45
Danny was on his way home after a hard day policing Broadway when Kaypeck, a freelance photographer collared him in the…
Jul 8, 1951 · 29:27
It's a hot, hot, summer on Broadway, and Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are currently on a stake-out, in front of…
Jun 13, 1953 · 27:28
Time of the transients, and their place of sleep at the Dwayne Hotel for transients on a side street just off Broadway.…
Jun 16, 1950 · 28:55
On his way home, Danny bumps into another officer on the beat. They're chatting when they hear someone shouting from…
Jun 16, 1951 · 28:59
Danny Clover's case begins when a man is found sprawled across the silk sheets in his hotel room the blood from his…
Jun 16, 1952 · 25:11
Detective Danny Clover finds himself embroiled in a complex case involving a murdered bank robber and a mysterious…
Jun 2, 1950 · 29:56
Mario LaVecchia, a retired cop on a disability pension, is found dead. Was his death a suicide? Or did something more…
Jun 2, 1951 · 29:44
On the fourth floor landing of a tenement near to the river, there lays the body of Francesca Brown. A girl, with her…
Jun 2, 1952 · 30:00
A newsboy who called to collect the weekly payment found a man dead in his living room. His name was Harry Moore and he…
Jun 20, 1953 · 29:24
At headquarters, Danny Clover is about to leave when Doctor Simsky enters through the double doors, with Mr Nelson, who…
Jun 23, 1950 · 29:33
At headquarters, Danny gets a call from a woman asking if he's done what she asked him to do. The letter was about…
Jun 23, 1951 · 29:28
Danny Clover is at the city morgue with Mr Larson, who is there to identify a body, who the police believe may be their…
Jun 23, 1952 · 28:56
Joey Croft is found stabbed to death and buried in the sand on Coney Island beach. Danny Clover investigates his murder…
Jun 27, 1953 · 27:07
Along with Detective Mogavan, Danny is in the upstairs room of a tenement, where there lays a woman in a white robe,…
Jun 30, 1951 · 29:37
On a side street, an officer is waiting for Danny to guide him to a crime scene. Lying dead against the iron gates of a…
Jun 6, 1953 · 28:06
On the fourth floor of the Rockston Hotel, Danny is investigating the murder of a man, found in his hotel room,…
Jun 9, 1950 · 30:34
Officer Murray directs Danny Clover to another crime scene. A boy and his girl have been found shot in Lover's Lane. It…
Jun 9, 1951 · 28:35
It was June and in the circle of the feet of the crowd that had gathered there in Time Square laid a man expensively…
Mar 10, 1950
A late call from a phone booth turns grim, and Detective Danny Clover follows the trail through a rain-slick building,…
Mar 14, 1953 · 29:16
Detective Danny Clover unravels a perplexing case on the mean streets of Broadway. When a practical joker is found…
Mar 15, 1952 · 29:43
Gordon “Angel” Merrick the show backer with the golden touch is discovered shot dead in his hotel room. He had called…
Mar 17, 1950 · 27:30
The Harbor police were waiting for Detective Danny Clover. They had discovered a car in the river with a dead girl and…
Mar 21, 1953 · 28:47
Georgie Haven was being questioned on the matter of a car theft but it was more than just that it involved murder when…
Mar 22, 1952 · 29:34
Les Chaney was a convict who sent to prison for dealing narcotics. However he was suspected of robbery and murder of a…
Mar 27, 1949 · 28:16
When Danny's on the beat today, he decides to stop by the boxing gym, to watch the kids spar a little. At the prize…
Mar 28, 1953 · 29:33
Danny Clover attends hospital to talk to a man wounded with a knife. He says he was waiting for the express train in…
Mar 3, 1950 · 28:59
Detective Danny Clover is in Central Station when he sees a guy from behind that he recognizes, its Joe Quito who has…
Mar 31, 1950 · 29:33
At his desk at headquarters, Danny received a new case for investigation. The message was for him to go to the…
Mar 6, 1949 · 28:28
It was around 4pm on a Saturday afternoon when Danny got to Times Square, and a nervous young lady came to talk to him.…
Mar 7, 1953 · 28:55
Larry Thor enters a room where a man is sitting hands clenched tight in a rocking chair, rocking, staring and silent.…
Mar 8, 1952 · 30:36
A bullfighter is the main suspect in the murder of Eve Hunter until he himself dies during a mock bullfight and…
May 1, 1949 · 29:31
Danny Clover patrols Broadway, the gaudiest, most violent and lonesome mile in the world - but today, trouble is…
May 12, 1950
A woman with a polished past is found dead, and Danny Clover walks the case with quiet persistence. From a Queens…
May 12, 1951 · 29:10
The web of blood in the ally was already dust heavy its thread leading you to the man huddled in a forgotten anguish…
May 16, 1953 · 29:31
Danny is at a private house which has been converted to upstairs and downstairs apartments. It's 11 o'clock in the…
May 17, 1952 · 29:23
Irene Hall was an entertainer and was found murdered by Myron Leehigh who had a date with her. However when he arrived…
May 19, 1950 · 30:12
Robert Rover was in the midst of the International Order of Fuzzy Bears spring get together (which is always held after…
May 2, 1953 · 29:27
It was going home time for Danny at the police headquarters, but on his way out, he finds Lila Royce at the front desk,…
May 22, 1949 · 29:55
Danny Clover was walking his beat on Broadway, towards the court house, and thinking of a phone call he'd received from…
May 23, 1953 · 29:31
At headquarters, Danny Clover has been summoned to a room by Detective Mogavan, to interview a woman who is drunk.…
May 24, 1952 · 27:46
An anonymous man calls in to report that a man has been murdered but when Detective Danny Clover and Sergeant Muggavav…
May 26, 1950 · 30:21
Mr Goodwin enters the station to report a murder he saw with his own eyes, from a sightseeing bus! Danny is skeptical,…
May 26, 1951 · 29:24
In the tenements, there is a squad car parked in the alley, cutting the darkness with its spotlight. A body of a young…
May 30, 1953 · 29:30
Down by the river, two teenagers have stumbled across the body of a woman, and called it in to the station, so Danny…
May 5, 1950 · 27:39
Janice Guildford has been found in the river and Doctor Simpson thinks she may have tried to commit suicide but who…
May 5, 1951 · 29:04
It was the end of the day and Detective Danny Clover’s day was just beginning. A young boy called Paul had witnessed a…
May 9, 1953 · 29:30
In a dark, brooding street, the lightened windows of a rooming house stare into it. The door to the building opens…
Nov 1, 1952 · 32:16
At the private library of the Bentley foundation, a woman is found slumped and wounded against a litter of books. The…
Nov 10, 1950 · 28:55
A Lady was bidding a gentleman farewell at the door when she heard shots. The dead man was Johnny Hill a Hoodlum from…
Nov 10, 1951 · 29:20
Detective Danny Clover was at the police morgue where the slabs held two men newly dead from alcohol poisoning. They…
Nov 12, 1949 · 29:21
Detective Danny Clover is waiting in front of the grey stone building on Broadway which is the police headquarters.…
Nov 13, 1953 · 29:35
When Danny Clover and Detective Dennison arrive at the home of Frank Taylor, they find his wife there, shivering, her…
Nov 15, 1952 · 31:39
Detective Clover is investigating another murder in New York. A jazz musician called Kenny Perdue has been violently…
Nov 17, 1950 · 29:33
There has been a murder in Central Park at the lake and Danny Clover has been sent to investigate with Detective…
Nov 17, 1951 · 28:05
Detective Danny Clover is called to a shooting and arrives, as Alex Raymond is about to expire. Before he dies he tells…
Nov 19, 1949 · 31:14
Broadway where the vision of beauty stands in the doorway at night you go looking for it and a guy shoots you. It's…
Nov 20, 1953 · 29:30
Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are at an apartment in the west 30s. It's near midnight, and every light in the…
Nov 22, 1952 · 28:01
Grace Cullen was a middle aged widow of twelve years, who, after a date with a twenty year old campus football hero…
Nov 24, 1950 · 28:42
In Danny's office, a Mr Brian has come to see him because his wife, Clara, went out the other evening and didn't come…
Nov 24, 1951 · 28:57
The body of a good-looking young man is recovered from Central Park Lake with a bullet wound. There is no…
Nov 26, 1949 · 29:27
Broadway a place in the world where something happens to you outside the movies, it's the beat of Danny Clover. It's…
Nov 27, 1953 · 29:42
Danny Clover received a call at headquarters from a frantic upset man telling them to get to Marley apartment on West…
Nov 29, 1952 · 28:12
Eddie Barker and his wife Cora had been out for the evening. On their return, Cora fell asleep, and whilst was Eddie…
Nov 3, 1950 · 29:02
Laura Burton heiress was strangled in a dollar a night hotel, but why? It was up to Detective Danny Clover of homicide…
Nov 3, 1951 · 29:32
Danny Clover is about to meet Detective Muggavan at the Walker Hotel, an expensive joint, where he is investigating the…
Nov 4, 1953 · 29:20
Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are in a ground floor apartment on 9th Avenue. The wind spilled in from the street…
Nov 5, 1949 · 29:06
Lee Ki professor of oriental art at the university has come to Detective Danny Clover with a telegram he has received…
Nov 5, 1949
A valuable Chinese statuette, a nervous telegram, and a late-night train platform draw Detective Danny Clover into a…
Nov 8, 1952 · 28:53
Today's file opens at the site of a current wrecking job. However, the destruction of the buildings has been…
Oct 11, 1952 · 30:22
Ruth Nelson had spent thirty years in a woman’s penal institution for murdering her husband with an axe and on the day…
Oct 13, 1950 · 29:29
A wide-eyed girl suddenly lurches against Danny Clover. She's rather disorientated, and doesn't know who she is. All…
Oct 13, 1951 · 29:33
The night's sky was lit with flames, which was recorded in police and fire department records as 'fire at Russell's…
Oct 14, 1953 · 30:13
It was party time on East 63rd and Miss Braidy went to the apartment above the party to take a shower and found Cora…
Oct 18, 1952 · 30:18
Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are in the office at Police Headquarters on Broadway discussing the football when…
Oct 20, 1950 · 27:06
At a mortuary on the edge of Broadway, a man has been found dead, with a knife in the back of his neck. That's where…
Oct 20, 1951 · 29:26
Impervious to his surroundings, a man leans fastidiously on a Grecian column, lifting a glass of champagne in a silent…
Oct 25, 1952 · 32:06
Detective Danny Clover is on the case of a young woman's murder. A local subway train guard heard a girl screaming, and…
Oct 27, 1950 · 29:09
It was 7pm when Danny clover walked up to the second floor of the Elroy El Apartments, in answer to a call. The…
Oct 27, 1951 · 29:30
In Spanish Harlem, inside a small nightclub, Danny Clover and Detective Gomez are being led down the stairs into the…
Oct 28, 1953 · 29:51
Bobby Quinn had been to a movie with Joy and after they went for a drink before he brought her home. He left her and…
Oct 3, 1953 · 29:40
Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are in Central Park, where a man has been found beaten to death. There's no…
Oct 4, 1952 · 28:00
Danny Clover investigates a possible killing when a gun is found near the docks and a trail of blood. The gun is…
Oct 6, 1951 · 29:41
Lily Nelson was found dead with her wrists slashed and a razor blade beside her obvious conclusion was suicide. But…
Oct 7, 1953 · 30:16
Downtown at police headquarters the day is different according to the quality of violence. For instance this day…
Sep 12, 1953 · 30:48
Danny Clover was at police Head Quarters on the night watch when a woman phones sobbing through the telephone, sobbing…
Sep 15, 1951 · 29:45
Where Broadway turns a corner into the 40s, Danny Clover is with Detective Muggavan, with a woman. She's on the floor…
Sep 20, 1952 · 28:07
Sylvia is a dancer from England and is devoted to dancing master Tony Blair. She tells Blair that she is convinced that…
Sep 22, 1951 · 28:06
A man was found dead in his bed last night murdered with two different bullets but either one of the bullets would have…
Sep 26, 1953 · 28:10
Paul Tracy is found shot dead in his jewellery shop with jewellery strewn all over the place. It is hard to tell…
Sep 27, 1952 · 28:08
Paul Tracy is murdered in his jewellery store while working late. Produced and directed by: Elliott Lewis Musical score…
Sep 29, 1951 · 29:05
At Police headquarters, there are two people with Danny Clover in his office. Polly Morgan, got a permit to carry a gun…
Sep 5, 1953 · 29:30
Danny Clover and Detective Muggavan are at the scene of a stabbing on a Subway platform, a man whose identification…
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