UNTITLED (aka-Eddie Gaynor Framed For Murder)
Detectives probing a murder discover that Eddie Gaynor has been deliberately framed and follow the setup into a broader network of criminals and hidden motives.
A police procedural centered on criminal investigations, lineup interrogations, and the work of San Francisco detectives.
A police procedural centered on criminal investigations, lineup interrogations, and the work of San Francisco detectives.
Realistic CBS police procedural set in an unnamed great American city. Bill Johnstone played Lt.
The run breaks into several distinct periods: Guthrie and Greb era (July 6, 1950 to December 27, 1951) on CBS Radio Network and Guthrie and Karger era (1952-01 to February 20, 1953) on CBS Radio Network.
Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include Eddie Dunstedter (music, composer, and conductor), William Johnstone (performer), Jaime del Valle (producer, director, and transcriber), Howard McNear (performer), Virginia Gregg (performer), Hy Averback (performer), and Wally Maher (performer).
Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to CBS Radio Network, Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, Armed Forces Radio Service, and WCBS.
The stories often return to murder and homicide, robbery and theft, police investigation and procedure, suspect lineups and identification, automobile and traffic crime, and narcotics and drug crime.
The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes Post-Dragnet realistic police procedural trend, Unnamed-city radio setting, Radio-to-television transition, and Feature-film continuation.
If you are following the same actors and creative circles, related programs worth opening next include Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Escape, Lux Radio Theatre, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and Broadway Is My Beat.
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Detectives probing a murder discover that Eddie Gaynor has been deliberately framed and follow the setup into a broader network of criminals and hidden motives.
A murder investigation begins to unravel a suspect's carefully invented alibi and exposes links to an earlier robbery that give police a different view of the crime.
Police investigate what first appears to be a hit-and-run death and learn that the young woman was deliberately targeted because of a past accident and another person's distorted loyalty.
When a suspect suddenly dies during a lineup, detectives trace the death through old crimes, blackmail and murder to determine who needed him silenced.
A string of robberies and a killing sends police after a dangerous fugitive, whose flight across the city ends in a tense confrontation at a train station.
Witnesses identify a suspect in a candy-store robbery and murder, but detectives begin doubting the lineup and reopen the evidence to find the actual killer.
The murder of a broker leads police through missing money, private secrets and conflicting stories among the people closest to him.
After an undercover officer is killed, police pursue the men responsible through the city until the search culminates in a rooftop gun battle.
A failed lineup leaves detectives racing to identify a paranoid killer responsible for multiple deaths before he can strike again.
A bank robbery launches a citywide hunt for the Hilston brothers, ending with police staking out the fugitives and facing them in a shootout.
The strangling of an elderly woman forces detectives to sort through false names and concealed histories before the victim's hidden connections reveal a motive.
A milkman's observations point police toward a suspect in a dancer's murder, where old romantic ties and obsession prove central to the killing.
A disgruntled unemployed man plants a time bomb in a public building, leaving a police lieutenant with little time to locate and disarm the device.
Unable to get frightened witnesses to testify against a powerful racketeer, police construct a trap designed to make them speak and expose the truth behind a murder.
A gang of store robbers grows increasingly violent, forcing detectives into a race to identify and stop them after theft escalates into murder.
A series of brutal street muggings becomes a murder investigation as police track two attackers whose robberies are growing steadily more violent.
Detectives hunt the elusive Cigar Box Bandit through a series of holdups and discover that their assumptions about the criminal's identity have been wrong.
Police focus on a man suspected of murdering a young woman, but his repeated denials force detectives to devise a trap that exposes what he knows.
After a key witness is murdered, police stage a dangerous deception to make the killer expose the crime boss they are really trying to reach.
The murder of a salesman and a batch of stolen blank checks lead detectives into a forgery scheme whose operators are willing to kill to protect it.
A wealthy couple appears to have an airtight alibi for an elderly woman's murder, until detectives connect small inconsistencies to the killing in the park.
A murdered witness jeopardizes the case against a crime boss, forcing police to solve the witness's killing before they can salvage the larger prosecution.
The murder of a crucial witness brings police back to the lineup room, where identifying the killer opens a path toward the powerful racketeer behind the case.
A young suspect blames a mysterious man in a red shirt for a store owner's shooting, but his changing story gives detectives the leverage for a calculated confrontation and confession.
Police pursue four armed payroll robbers after an early suspect breaks under questioning, giving investigators the first solid lead toward the rest of the gang.
A revenge-minded gang kidnaps a police lieutenant after his partner shoots one of their men during a theater robbery, forcing officers into a desperate search for their missing commander.
A bomber who blames politicians for his unemployment plants another device in a public building, leaving police with little time to find him and prevent an explosion.
The murder of a physician leads detectives to a disturbed widower who believes doctors conspired against his late wife and may have turned his grievance into violence.
Criminals seeking revenge abduct a police lieutenant, setting off a tense search that ends in a dangerous confrontation with the men holding him.
A lineup appears to identify the man responsible for a stabbing, but police evidence suggests the real killer may be much closer to the victim than the obvious suspect.
A series of violent attacks on elderly victims becomes murder, and a pawn-shop clue finally gives police the trail they need to pursue the attackers.
The murder of a young woman exposes a secret affair and sends detectives after a suspect who is already trying to flee before the relationship can be uncovered.
A jewelry-store lineup grows into a much larger case when detectives uncover deception by a supposed victim and connect two suspects to crimes across several states.
A run of forged checks leads investigators to discover that the fraud is not the work of one passer but a coordinated two-man operation.
After a violent loan-office robbery leaves one criminal dead, detectives race to catch his surviving partner before the armed fugitive can strike again.
The stabbing of a wealthy man initially points toward a bitter dispute, but detectives uncover a more personal motive driven by jealousy.
Police hunt a sadistic attacker stabbing young women with an ice pick, relying on survivor identification to close in on him before another assault.
A young woman's disappearance draws detectives toward her controlling mother, whose evasive answers make the missing-person case increasingly ominous.
A hotel murder leads police to the victim's missing husband, only for records to reveal that he is already an FBI fugitive and the target of a much wider manhunt.
Two women are shot by the same mysterious rifleman, and detectives race to identify the killer before his pattern produces another victim.
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