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Polio and Fog

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At about 8:30 p.m., officers receive a call to assist a five-year-old child suffering from polio.

This Nightwatch broadcast aired on January 27, 1955. It is listed as episode 40 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 26 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.

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