Broadway Is My Beat — 1949
32 episodes broadcast in 1949.
February 27, 1949
Premiere Broadcast
A vanished Indiana farm boy named Andrew Jenkins sends Clover chasing a shadowy figure known only as 'Golden' Gold.
March 13, 1949
The Gordon Ellis Murder Case
March 20, 1949
The Eugene Bullock Murder Case
When the betting odds on a welterweight bout swing the wrong way overnight, Clover smells a rigged fight.
April 3, 1949
The Jimmy Dorne Murder Case
April 10, 1949
The Otto Procausch Murder Case
April 17, 1949
(untitled)
April 24, 1949
The Henry Baker Murder Case
Poisoned in Clover's own office, Mary Murdock dies with her husband -- just paroled after twenty years and still living mentally in the 1920s -- as the obvious suspect.
May 8, 1949
The Joan Gale Murder Case
May 15, 1949
(untitled)
A society 'Cinderella girl' disappears, and her wealthy attorney fiance seems oddly untroubled by it.
May 29, 1949
The Rhonda Lynn Murder Case
June 5, 1949
The Joe Quento Murder Case
June 12, 1949
The Eddie Amboy Murder Case
A run of killings inside a vaudeville house opens with the death of Otto Prokosh, an athlete newly arrived from Vienna.
A reformed ex-convict who once did Clover a good turn is accused of a million-dollar jewel heist -- and is dead before the day ends.
A doctor bursts into Clover's office with something urgent to tell him, then dies of a bullet wound before he can get it out.
A scandal-sheet reporter hands Clover a prophecy that arrived in the mail: a woman will be murdered before the night is over.
A pint-sized jockey's odd airport-locker errand pulls Clover into a tangle of $100,000, a dead rider and murderous bookmakers.
A hated novelist is found starved to death -- in a locked room stocked with food.
A telegram reading 'terror follows me' precedes the theft of a jade statuette and two deaths tied to a professor of Oriental art.
A gunman kills the detective escorting a handcuffed prisoner, the prisoner bolts, and Clover hunts them both.
A man from Iowa is found dead outside a run-down sanitarium, his five thousand dollars gone.
With a young man only days from the electric chair for murder, Clover races a Monday deadline to find grounds for a stay.
Sherman Gates is found poisoned in a movie-theater balcony, and the trail leads on to a murdered photographer.
A hysterical 2 a.m. call sends Clover to Greenwich Village, where a beautiful garment-district model has been found hanged.
A rich man is bent on giving away fifty thousand dollars, and his brother is just as bent on stopping him.
On Christmas Eve an ex-con fresh out of Sing Sing, hired to play Santa for the police boys' league, vanishes -- with a miserly landlord dogging him.
A man reported dead in a hit-and-run turns up drunk in a hotel room, then goes out the window.
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