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Old Time Radio Researchers GroupBroadway Is My Beat - Single Episodes

BROADWAY'S MY BEAT

Broadway's My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With music by Robert Stringer, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air, with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover. John Dietz directed for producer Lester Gottlieb.

Beginning with the July 7, 1949 episode, the series was broadcast from Hollywood with producer Elliott Lewis directing a new cast in scripts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The opening theme of "I'll Take Manhattan" introduced Detective Danny Clover (played by Larry Thor), a hardened New York City cop who worked homicide "from Times Square to Columbus Circle -- the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world."

Danny Clover narrated the tales of the Great White Way to the accompaniment of music by Wilbur Hatch and Alexander Courage, and the recreation of Manhattan's aural tapestry required the talents of three sound effects technicians (David Light, Ralph Cummings, Ross Murray). Bill Anders was the show's announcer.

The supporting cast included regulars Charles Calvert (as Sgt. Gino Tartaglia) and Jack Kruschen (as Sgt. Muggavan), with episodic roles filled by such radio actors as Irene Tedrow, Barney Phillips, Lamont Johnson, Herb Ellis, Hy Averback, Edgar Barrier, Betty Lou Gerson, Harry Bartell, Sheldon Leonard, Martha Wentworth, Lawrence Dobkin and Mary Jane Croft.

NOTE: Updated Release! Upgraded episodes (23-Oct-2011). Fixed MP3 tags (26-Dec-2011).

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Keywords: OTRR; Old Time Radio Researchers Group; Old Time Radio; OTRR Single Episodes; Broadway's My Beat; Broadway is My Beat; Detective; Crime Drama; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1940s; 1950s; OTRR Updated Release; OTRR - 2011-12

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It contains the most complete and accurate version of this series in the best sound possible at the time of creation. An updated version will be issued if more episodes or better sounding ones become available.


This is the Single Episodes Page. The Certified Set includes extras not found here. It is located at OTRR Certified Set. This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to archive.org naming requirements.


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Reviewer: livnos - - August 28, 2011
Subject: BROADWAY IS MY BEAT
THIS IS A GREAT SHOW, GREAT PLOTS ONE OF THE BETTER ONES.

Reviewer: Poe1809 - - November 23, 2010
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Just right click on the file size and you should have no problem downloading singles.

Reviewer: Mega Zit - - November 23, 2010
Subject: Existential poetry
I listen to a lot of OTRR stuff but “BIMB” is in a class of it's own, the dialogue is great but the narration is just something else – existential poetry, think Raymond Chandler meets Alan Ginsberg - “the blood sighed across his shirt front” - love that “sighed”, I must download the script files – I assume that's what the *.rtf files are, I have no internet connection, on that point what are the extras in the “The Certified Set” - I use the local Library connection and am limited to 2 hours a day and the Certified zips estimate 2hrs 11mins download time – give us single episode downloaders the extras PLEASE.

Must agree with “Police Chief” about the Clover - Barret scenes, you can hear the depth of the relationship between the two of them in even the shortest exchanges.

I'm 2 episodes into the Wrigley's sponsorship and even their crass commercialisation can't spoil it, but oh dear, the music – especially when the corpse is discovered!

Reviewer: Police Chief - - November 8, 2008
Subject: Serious Omission
The cast of "Broad is My Beat" has a serious omission here of Anthony "Tony" Barrett.

To illustrate his creative talent, Barrett was praised by Ayn Rand for his portrayal of the protagonist Equality 72521 in her novella "Anthem" which was broadcast on radio in September 1950.

She wrote to Barrett to personally thank him. She wrote that despite the limited material of a radio script that he had to work with, he made the voice of Equality 72521 come alive for her like she never imagined possible.

One of the best 'Broadway is My Beat" episodes is the "Georgia Gray Murder (April 28, 1951) which starred Barrett as Tommy Chandler. No human being could have played the Chandler character better than Barrett. If you want hear OTR at its best, listen to it: dialogue and music were the finest ever produced for radio or elsewhere.

All the scenes with Danny Clover (Larry Thor) and Tommy Chandler (Barret) and particularly near the end is the best radio acting I have ever witnessed. A terrifying scene that follows is the best portrayal of horror from the voice of an actor ever (in this case Barrett's). The concluding line of Thor is sheer genuis in creative writing. For me, this episode of Barrett's work was stunning in its excellence.

I tracked him down on various You Tube clips of the 1949 (?) Hollywood film "Impact" with Brian Donlevy, to see what Barrett looked like. Handsome, but his film acting doesn't compare to his brilliance as a radio voice and actor.

I can and do listen to this series over and over and over and over and over.... I find myself laughing out loud with pleasure at the creativity brilliance of the writers and actors. This series is for me is honestly a true marvel.

Barrett went on to TV and some films, but did quite a lot of TV script writing.