Motel Sheets and Lock Out

The patrol begins with a motel burglary case in which a suspect is caught stealing towels and bed linens.

This Nightwatch broadcast aired on September 25, 1954. It is listed as episode 23 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Donn Reed and W. N. Hildebrand. Other credited names include Sterling Tracy as director, Sterling Tracy as producer, and Jim Headlock as producer.

The surviving recording runs about 28 minutes.

A documentary-style police series built from real field recordings as reporter Donn Reed accompanies Culver City police officers on night patrol.

Listeners can expect documentary and crime, documentary in format, and gritty and serious in tone.