Broadway Is My Beat — 1950
41 episodes broadcast in 1950.
A rebroadcast: poisoned in Clover's own office, Mary Murdock dies with her husband -- freshly paroled after twenty years and still living mentally in the 1920s -- the obvious suspect.
At four in the morning, John Gale lies dead in a flower shop, the alarm still ringing.
An anonymous midnight call sends Clover to a 116th Street flat, where Roberto Segura lies knifed and a stunned young woman sits nearby with her guitar.
A young man's apparent suicide looks staged, and Clover wonders whether his blind girlfriend's father had a hand in it.
A rebroadcast: a society 'Cinderella girl' disappears while her wealthy attorney fiance stays oddly calm about it.
Dion Hartley coolly tells Clover he is about to be murdered but won't name the killer -- and after the death, Clover finds himself drawn to a suspect.
Rhoda Lynn keeps pressing Clover to find who poisoned her father, in a case turning on a singularly odd murder weapon.
Fresh out of prison, Joe Quito takes a knife in the subway minutes after he stops to talk with Clover.
A newlywed couple is found shot to death in a car pulled from the river -- and no one can say how it got there.
A nightclub cigarette girl, Francine Green, keeps dodging attempts on her life.
Hope Anderson turns up shot in a fountain, her boyfriend takes a bullet too -- and so does Clover.
A bank teller embezzles twenty thousand dollars to ransom his kidnapped wife.
Poisoned mid-act, Jane Arnold dies assisting a magician at a Fuzzy Bears lodge meeting.
A pensioned-off ex-policeman is found dead, his death called a suicide.
A couple is found shot in Lover's Lane, and the trail runs to a dry cleaner and his girl.
A bread deliveryman is bludgeoned to death, his girlfriend savagely beaten as well.
A rich old man of the racetrack set turns up murdered.
Frank Briscoe is shot in his apartment in the middle of a phone call, with a hundred thousand dollars behind it.
Celia Jordan vanishes, then phones Clover only to die of poison in front of him, her apartment left torn apart.
A saloon pianist is shot dead on a revolving platform above the bar.
A young boxer is found dead in an alley.
The girl her high-school class voted most likely to succeed is slain in her rooming house.
The Coreys telephone police about their own murder-suicide pact, and Clover races a frantic plea for help.
A dazed woman is found wandering, unable to recall her own name, a blood-smeared letter opener in her purse.
John Webster is found with his throat knifed in a funeral parlor.
Harold Clark is shot dead by a neighbor, and soon after Henry Gaynor is poisoned.
Wealthy Laura Burton is found strangled with half a bathrobe sash in a waterfront hotel -- then a second woman turns up strangled with the other half.
A Chicago hoodlum is shot dead in a flophouse, and his bodyguard soon dies under the same roof.
Joan Fuller, a rich woman's maid, is found knifed and floating in the Central Park lake.
A vanished woman and a Bowery derelict stabbed in a flophouse -- Clover hunts the thread that ties them together.
Ken Mitchell lies stabbed to death, and in the next room Ruth Corey is dying too.
Ben Justin, shot twice in the back, dies in the ambulance while his wife seems unmoved -- then she herself is killed by a bomb.
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