Casey, Crime Photographer
Casey, Crime Photographer turns a newspaper camera into a passport to murder scenes, police investigations and city nightlife. Jack “Flashgun” Casey is both observer and participant: his job gets him close to the crime, while his instincts keep him involved after the photograph has been taken.
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The Case Of The Switched Plates
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Episode details →Earned Reward (Repeat of 122)
This is a middle-period broadcast in the GRH holdings, useful for hearing the series at a different point in its surviving run.
Episode details →Source Of Information
This is a later surviving broadcast in the GRH holdings, useful for hearing the series at a different point in its surviving run.
Episode details →Program History
A newspaper crime drama about photographer Jack 'Flashgun' Casey, whose work at crime scenes repeatedly draws him into solving murders and other mysteries.
CBS crime/mystery drama adapted from George Harmon Coxe's newspaper photographer character Jack 'Flashgun' Casey. Casey works for the Morning Express, investigates crimes with reporter Ann Williams, and regularly returns to the Blue Note Cafe with bartender Ethelbert.
The run breaks into several distinct periods: Flashgun Casey (July 7, 1943 to January 29, 1944) on CBS Radio Network, Casey, Press Photographer (February 5, 1944 to July 4, 1945) on CBS Radio Network, Crime Photographer (July 11, 1945 to March 13, 1947) on CBS Radio Network, and Casey, Crime Photographer (March 20, 1947 to November 16, 1950) on CBS Radio Network.
Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include George Harmon Coxe (creator and performer), Staats Cotsworth (performer), John Gibson (performer), Alonzo Deen Cole (writer, creator, and performer), Herman Chittison (piano, performer, and pianist), Jan Miner (performer), and John Dietz (director, producer, and performer).
Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to CBS Radio Network, Armed Forces Radio Service, and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
The stories often return to murder and homicide, robbery, theft and stolen property, police investigation and criminal justice, framing, disguise and deception, crime-scene photography and photographic evidence, and newspaper reporting and journalism.
The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes Pulp-to-radio detective adaptation, Commercial sponsor eras, Radio-to-television transition, and Urban newspaper crime culture.
If you are following the same actors and creative circles, related programs worth opening next include X Minus One, Columbia Workshop, The Chase, Words at War, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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The Case Of The Switched Plates
After photographing a society wedding, Casey discovers that his camera has been switched with another. The unfamiliar film contains secret photographs of the guarded Hartley Laboratory and a man running…
The Clue In The Clouds
A helicopter goes out of control and heads toward the sea, and pilot John Hampton disappears. What first looks like an aviation accident leaves Casey suspicious that something more deliberate…
The Reunion
Sculptor Kirk Volter has filed for divorce when his wife suddenly disappears after receiving a mysterious telephone call. After ten days without word from her, her cousin Ruth fears Kirk…
A Tooth For Tooth
Rewrite man Henry Brower tells Casey and Ann that he has developed a disturbing fear after allowing quack experimenter George Renette to use a new metal in his dental fillings.…
The Red Raincoat
During a heavy rain, a woman wearing a distinctive red hooded raincoat is shot in a deserted side street. Casey is drawn into the murder, with the unusual raincoat becoming…
The Handkerchief
Tavern owner Joe Palette is carrying twenty thousand dollars in payroll cash after receiving threats from former barman Snider, a man known for a yellow handkerchief. When Palette is murdered…
The Duke Of Skid Row
A wealthy foreigner has chosen to live anonymously in a Skid Row flophouse. Two men hunting for a European crown track him down and hang him, leaving Casey to uncover…
Christmas Shopping
A Christmas-season murder case requires Casey to enlist the unusually nimble hands of a skilled pickpocket and an enormous truck in an unconventional trap for two killers.
The Surprising Corpse
A confidence man posing as a count sets his sights on heiress Paula Durton, but the scheme changes when the impostor is murdered and Paula is framed for the killing.…
The Grey Kitten
A murder near Greenwood Lake becomes entangled with the strange claim that a grey kitten is a reincarnated victim. Casey follows the bizarre clue while hunting a killer whose record…
The Twenty Minute Alibi
A man dies from a gunshot to the head while talking with an insurance agent on the very day his policy is due to lapse. The death appears to be…
The Mysterious Lodger
An elderly widow reports that her female lodger has been murdered with a knife. Casey and the police investigate the strange killing inside the woman's lodging house, although surviving references…
The Demon Miner
Six miners have died under remarkably similar circumstances, and frightened workers blame a demon or monster said to prowl the mine. Casey investigates whether the repeated deaths have a human…
The Box Of Death
A wooden packing case addressed to Mrs. Donald arrives carrying a horrifying contents: the body of her murdered husband Fred. Casey's investigation connects the boxed corpse to a crook, a…
The Gentle Strangler
A serial strangler has already murdered an assistant district attorney and Judge Whitcomb. As Casey investigates the deranged killer's pattern, he learns that he himself has become the next intended…
King Of The Apes
Casey and Ann go to a circus to photograph trainer Charles King and his six performing orangutans, only to become caught in murders occurring under the big top. An argument…
The Laughing Killer
Ex-convict Arty Mattocks was imprisoned after gambler Phil Blaney's death amid rumors that singer Gypsy was the real killer and Arty protected her. Five years later, Arty is free and…
Pick up
Horse trainer Bret Hutchins wants Casey to find the murderer of jockey Cass Marlin. A woman connected with the case is then killed because she knows too much, making the…
Acquitted
Policeman Big Mike Ryan is suspended after beating Lenny Waldo. When Waldo and an associate are later found shot, the disgraced officer becomes the obvious suspect and Casey examines whether…
The Lady Killer
Charming Cecil Gramerton courts wealthy divorcée Madeleine Charmers, but his romantic attention hides a deadly pattern: he targets rich women and kills them. Casey's case becomes a hunt for a…
Casey And The Self made Hero 2 nd Repeat Of 36
Wellington Cliffside is desperate to prove himself a hero and impress his girlfriend. His determination to manufacture a heroic opportunity draws Casey into a dangerous situation built around a young…
Photo Of The Dead
A supposed psychic produces photographs that appear to show the dead. When one of Casey's old friends becomes convinced that his deceased wife has appeared in such a picture, Casey…
Bright New Star
The star of a Broadway production due to open soon is murdered. With the theater full of professional and personal rivalries, Casey faces several plausible suspects while investigating the death…
Death In Lovers Laneanchor hocking 1 st Anniv Show
A killer is stalking couples in secluded lovers' lanes and leaving behind a card identifying himself as 'Death.' Casey joins the hunt for the murderer during the program's first-anniversary broadcast…
The Chivalrous Gunman
A safecracking robbery at J. J. Titus's loan company leads to betrayal, double murder, and a crucial eyewitness: the office stenographer. Her refusal to identify the killer complicates Casey's effort…
The Busmans Holiday
While Casey is away, Inspector Logan and Ann become involved after waitress Mimi's supposedly fake engagement ring turns out to be one of the stolen Bishop's Jewels. The unexpected discovery…
Hide out
A fugitive couple is hiding with one hundred thousand dollars from a bank robbery in the home of the greedy Creepy Blist, paying him heavily for protection. When they decide…
The Loaded Dice
Millionaire Foster Blassit is stabbed, and Steve Drake appears trapped by overwhelming evidence: a bloody knife, a locked-apartment setting, and circumstantial clues. Casey looks beyond the apparent certainty of the…
Graveyard Gertie (Repeat of 128)
Casey and Ann meet an eccentric elderly woman in a cemetery at midnight. Her talk of a man named Roger, dead for forty years, and a stuffed snake draws them…
The Tobacco Pouch
Casey witnesses an odd shoplifting and pickpocket incident inside a department store. The seemingly petty crime leads into murder and a man whose unusual arrangement with the store makes the…
The Treasure Cave
Four unusual murders have occurred deep inside a cave. Casey, Ann, and Inspector Logan descend into the underground setting to learn what connects the deaths and why the cave has…
The Miscarriage Of Justice
Carlos Domingo has served ten years for murdering his wife Mercedes when his father discovers that Mercedes is actually alive. Casey becomes involved in proving that Carlos was imprisoned for…
The Wedding Breakfast
Heiress Sylvia Loomis marries the questionable Baron Rene DuPavel despite threats from former fiancé Artie Mason. When DuPavel is murdered and Artie is found unconscious beside the body, Casey must…
The Camera Bug
A young aspiring press photographer happens to capture action photographs connected to a murder involving Butch Silver and Tony Russo. Copies of the pictures given to Casey become evidence that…
The Lady In Distress
Rodeo cowboy Barbecue Tom gives a woman calling herself Marybell one hundred dollars after she claims her family honor is in danger. When she disappears, Casey initially suspects a confidence…
Great Grandfathers Rent Receipt
Casey tells the century-old story of his great-grandfather Patrick in the old country, a family flashback built around an old rent receipt.
Tcot Blonde Lipstick
Laura Neely disappears with ten thousand dollars she collected for the City Welfare Fund. Casey's connection to the missing woman leaves him embarrassed and under pressure as he tries to…
Too Many Angels
A murder occurs inside a theater just before the opening night of the musical 'Angel Face.' Casey investigates the people surrounding the troubled production, including former dance partners and investors…
Earned Reward (Repeat of 122)
Rival photographer Shorty Irwin pursues a five-thousand-dollar reward for fugitive Joe Mosley and is murdered. Casey suspects Shorty's camera may have captured the person responsible, making the dead photographer's last…
After Turkey The Bill
On Thanksgiving, a young ex-convict is accused of robbing a filling station. Casey becomes involved when the evidence suggests the man may have been deliberately framed rather than returning to…
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