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Broadway tells the story of Sarafful Jones, a bookie who is usually grim-faced until a small girl is left with him as collateral for a bet. Broadway and his friends at Mindy's hear how Sarafful, who has no interest in children, reluctantly takes her in and comes to care for her. Sarafful brings the girl to a new apartment and hires help to look after her. Trouble follows him from the club as Milky Willie confronts him over a disputed wager. Sarafful stands up for the child and changes the way his friends see him.

With Broadway, Sarafful Jones, Regret, Little Miss Marker, Harry, Mitzi, Big Sam, Milky Willie.

Listen for: Sarafful's gruff reluctance softening as he cares for the girl, and the confrontation with Milky Willie at the club

First aired in 1950.

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Broadway, a nameless narrator who knows the Manhattan underworld, meets Tobias Twiny, a timid little man from Erasmus, Pennsylvania, crying over a lost love at Mindy's restaurant. Tobias says Deborah Weems broke off their engagement because he is not tough enough, and he has come to New York to meet gangsters so he can return and face his rival, Joe Trivet. Broadway takes him to Good Time Charlie's, a club full of gangsters including Harry the Horse, Angie the Ox and Little Mitzi. The story is part of The Damon Runyon Theatre, adapted for radio from Damon Runyon's stories, and the episode's original air date and cast are not stated in the transcript.

With Broadway, Tobias Twiny, Deborah Weems, Harry the Horse, Angie the Ox, Little Mitzi, Good Time Charlie, Lieutenant Harrigan.

Listen for: Tobias Twiny's sudden transformation into '12-Gun Tobias' when Harrigan searches him

First aired in 1950.

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Private investigator Peter Troy is hired by Geraldine Smythe, who believes her brother Gerard was wrongly arrested after a jewelry store robbery in which a platinum blonde escaped with diamond bracelets. Gerard maintains he was set up by a woman who copied his sister's voice. Troy takes the case and soon finds himself ambushed in a city park fountain. Working alongside Inspector Caswell, he follows the clues to the club where his secretary Julie works, and the night's events begin to unravel the scheme.

With Peter Troy, Julie, Geraldine Smythe, Gerard Smythe, Inspector Caswell, Rachel, Harry, Maury.

Listen for: Troy's phone call from the club and his ambush at the fountain, where he is pushed into the water and hears footsteps running away.

First aired on December 24, 1963.

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Private investigator Peter Troy is hired by Janine Lee, who is accused of shooting crime novelist Steve Renwick in his London apartment. Renwick was unpopular, and several people had reasons to want him dead. Troy looks into his publisher, his lovers and the manuscript left on his desk, while Inspector Melonby insists the case is closed. The series is Walk Softly, Peter Troy, and this episode first aired on 17 December 1963. The episode's cast is not named in the transcript.

With Peter Troy, Janine Lee, Steve Renwick, Inspector Melonby, Melissa Morgan, Helen Fremont, Julie.

Listen for: Troy's questioning of Janine Lee about Renwick's other women, and the discovery of a perfume and a manuscript in the apartment

First aired on December 17, 1963.

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Private investigator Peter Troy is hired by Caroline Varley, a blonde client who fears a jilted suitor will harm her, and he agrees to protect her for a fee. When the suitor, Laurie Webster, is found shot dead in his flat and Troy's gun is found beside the body, Inspector Melanie arrests Troy. Troy's lawyer, Regan, secures his release on the condition that Troy deliver a sealed package to a man named Giles Nolan. Troy must now decide how to carry out the delivery while the people behind the package seem intent on stopping him.

With Peter Troy, Caroline Varley, Laurie Webster, Inspector Melanie, Regan, Julie, Giles Nolan.

Listen for: Troy's narration as he describes the blonde client and the trap closing around him after the shooting.

First aired on December 10, 1963.

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Inspector Harold Lowe and Detective Sergeant Sean Flannery of Scotland Yard investigate the death of a woman found strangled inside an old black trunk left at a London left-luggage office. A ticket found crumpled on the platform leads them to a second-hand shop in Brixton, where the trunk was sold. The police trace the woman's identity through laundry marks, interview witnesses who remember the trunk being carried by a bus conductor and a taxi driver, and examine a former housekeeper and a local estate agent named Arthur Cunningham. Inspector Lowe questions each person in turn while the detectives search the Rochester Row area where the trunk was taken.

With Inspector Harold Lowe, Sergeant Sean Flannery, Neville Hutchins, Mrs. Veronica Fanshawe, Arthur Cunningham, Rafe Dibble, Simon Norwich, Inspector North.

Listen for: The shopkeeper's description of the buyer of the trunk and the identification parade at Scotland Yard

First aired on December 2, 1951.

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Chief Superintendent Peter Carrouth of Scotland Yard is called to the village of Mattfield, near Tunbridge, where Chief Constable Thomas Bennett has found three women shot dead in a garden. Carrouth and Detective Sergeant Small examine the house and grounds, where a servant, Margaret Evans, and a mother and daughter lie dead. Among the clues are a single woman's glove and a set of broken teacups. Carrouth begins to question the household's friends and acquaintances, including John Ames, the estranged husband of one of the victims. This is the first episode of the Whitehall 1212 series, first broadcast on 1951-11-18 and drawn from Scotland Yard files, with the stories written and directed by Willis Cooper.

With Chief Superintendent Peter Carrouth, Detective Sergeant Small, Chief Constable Thomas Bennett, Mrs. Ames, Jessica, Margaret Evans, John Ames, Viola Masterson.

Listen for: The clues the officers find at the garden: the single woman's glove and the fragments of the teacups, and what they suggest about the number of people present.

First aired on November 18, 1951.

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Commander Rawlings of Scotland Yard investigates the 1942 discovery of a skeleton in the ruins of a Kensington chapel, bombed during the London Blitz. Detectives Hatton and Rawlings work to identify the remains and determine how the woman died. Their inquiries turn to her estranged husband, Harry Dobkin, a fire watcher who was on duty near the chapel. The series Whitehall 1212 presents these case files from Scotland Yard, first aired on November 13, 1951, and this episode is an audition recording.

With Commander Rawlings, Detective Inspector Hatton, Keith Simpson, Sergeant McLeod, Harry Dobkin, Rachel Dobkin.

Listen for: The discovery of the skeleton in the Kensington chapel ruins and the missing purse traced to Guildford

First aired on November 13, 1951.

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Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator, is sent to Hollywood after a publicity policy insuring an actress's legs for $100,000 is issued. He arrives at the Sunset Strip apartment of Marilyn Major, only to find her shot dead. A woman with a gun then takes him prisoner, and he is soon arrested by police, who hold him as a suspect. The episode is part of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on April 15, 1949, with Bob Bailey among its leading actors. The story follows Dollar's efforts to clear his name while the letters at the center of the case pass from hand to hand.

With Johnny Dollar, Harvey Anthony, Marilyn Major, Lieutenant Roach, Mel, Alice Hill, Lawrence Hill, Baron.

Listen for: The shifting identities of the letter-writers and the cat-and-mouse exchanges between Dollar and the police lieutenant

First aired on April 15, 1949 on CBS Radio.

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Frank Race, a former attorney turned OSS agent, is drawn into a dangerous case in Istanbul after a woman named Liesl Krüger appears in the rain and asks for help for a wounded American. The men are taken to a doctor, Dr. Amaran, and Frank learns that a shadowy black market has been crippling the continent's supplies. Later, at a Riviera villa, Frank meets insurance man Tony Woolwine, who explains that cargo planes and food shipments have been lost, and Frank is introduced to pilot Chuck Farrell. Liesl describes her brother's death from a worthless drug and urges Frank to protect the coming trains.

With Frank Race, Liesl Krüger, Dr. Amaran, Mark Donovan, Johnny Dwyer, Tony Woolwine, Chuck Farrell.

Listen for: Frank Race realising that Chuck Farrell's P-47 may be the means by which the supply trains have been destroyed

First aired in 1950.

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