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Night Beat

Old Time Radio


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Reviewer: mixiearmadillo - - March 15, 2009
Subject: zip file incomplete
Only contains three episodes!
Update: downloaded all, most episodes corrupted for play on MP3 player. Track will play partway through but will skip at precise points to next track. You can scan past skip but track will skip again at the same points every time. Many files in the archive appear to be corrupted this way. They are playable if converted to .wav form and played in standard CD player, or if played on the computer... so possibly an issue with my Sansa Clip MP3 player? Not sure, but many series I've downloaded from this archive do it. Even so, I'm thrilled to have them. Wish I could listen to these all the way through.

Reviewer: nightkey5 - - June 26, 2007
Subject: Misdated Shows
Night_Beat_50_04_16_xxxx_World_Of_His_Own_Special_Rebroadcast_Certified_but_is_it.mp3 was actually
was 50-04-10 I Know Your Secret (Randy Stone fishes Wanda Rhodes out of the river) The 50-04-16 broadcast was
from a special repeat week and following the pattern of the other shows from that week should open with
"The National Broadcasting Company wishes to call your attention to a program regularly heard on Monday evenings..."

Night_Beat_51_07_20_0051_The_City_At_Your_Fingertips.mp3 was actually from 50-07-31

Night_Beat_52_06_26_0099_Reformer.mp3 was 52-07-03 The Old Itch

Night_Beat_52_07_03_0100_The_Old_Itch.mp3 was 52-07-03 Reformer

Reviewer: telegonus - - April 22, 2007
Subject: Good Stuff, Evokes Its Era Nicely
NIGHTBEAT was a very good series about a peripatetic newspaperman, Randy Stone, excellently portrayed by Frank Lovejoy. Some of the episodes are prosaic and predictable, others quite moving. The series doesn't quite reach the heights of its better known contemporary, DRAGNET, but it has a nice feel for big city life circa 1950, give or take a year or two, and some of the writing is first rate. The setting is Chicago, and the show "uses" the city effectively and realistically. Someone had clearly done his homework on this one. I wish the writers had reached a little higher, though, been more experimental, tried a little harder to be original. Still, on its own terms, NIGHTBEAT was a well above average series.