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Missing_Mexican_Sheiks
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Calling All Cars is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-time_radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_procedural in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States. It was broadcast on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS West Coast networkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_All_Cars_(radio_program)#cite_note-dunningota-1 and on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Broadcasting_System-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lee_Networkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_All_Cars_(radio_program)#cite_note-bc050137-2 November 29, 1933 - September 8, 1939...
show moreFormat[edit]Calling All Cars dramatized cases that had been handled by the Los Angeles Police Department. A typical episode began by relating the facts of a particular crime, then introducing individuals who were associated with the case. A dramatization followed, climaxing in the arrest of the criminal. The outcome of a trial wrapped up the story.
In On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, radio historian John Dunning described the program as "a crude forerunner of a type that reached its zenith years later on Dragnet: the tedious routine of tracking killers and robbers, often with a postshow recap telling how justice was meted out.
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Author | Radio Shows of the Past! |
Organization | Bart Smith |
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