Broadway Is My Beat — 1951
36 episodes broadcast in 1951.
April 7, 1951
Fred Bayer
In the garment district, Thomas Hart turns up with shears buried in his back; when a second victim dies the same way, Clover too takes a knife.
A retired securities man is found dead the morning after a party at his Fifth Avenue apartment.
Clover answers a call to a Broadway taxi-dance hall and finds the dying girl is someone he knows -- Georgia Gray, knifed by a five-dollar dance partner.
Harry Foster is stabbed in the park, the only witnesses a small boy and a deranged cripple known as 'The Looker.'
Murdered in an alley with no wallet but a costly watch and a parking ticket, Charles Crandall then proves to be very much alive.
Al Martin is found stabbed and Eleanor Corbett thrown from a window, and Clover hunts the link between them.
A wealthy man is shot dead at high noon in a crowded Times Square by a killer who has only a month left to live.
Frank Dunn, a bartender, is found shot across the silk sheets of his hotel bed, and a woman's phone call deepens the mystery.
A fourteen-year-old girl is beaten dead with a pistol butt, the first of three killings done the same way.
Pablo Molari is found murdered outside a boys' clubhouse.
A cornered armed killer holed up in a second-floor flat vanishes when police break in -- carried out inside a coffin.
July 15, 1951
Alice Gleason
Having sworn he would blow his brains out, David Blaine appears to have made good on it.
July 29, 1951
Jimmy Sloan
Howard Crawford drowns in a city swimming pool.
August 12, 1951
Richard Folger
August 19, 1951
Roget, the Giant
Elizabeth Price dies of a heart attack after someone slips poison in among her heart pills, and her stepson hurries in from Vermont.
Tom Keeler is found shot dead in bed with two different bullets in him -- either one of them fatal -- as if murdered twice.
A celebrated torch singer applies for a gun permit, then shoots the man who has been pestering her.
Stage star Lily Nelson is discovered with both wrists slashed.
Patrolman Ed Koster burns to death in a subway blaze, the arsonist dead alongside him.
A man fears his wife is marked for death -- but it is the handsome young ski instructor who turns up dead, a ski pole through his chest.
Two die in Spanish Harlem -- one knifed in an alley, one shot through a window.
Joe Blair, a vagrant spending a night in a swank hotel, is found knifed, and a second body soon turns up in the alley.
For a bet, a rich man is slumming on the Bowery when rotgut liquor poisons him.
A young boy is pulled dead from the Central Park lake, and Clover is mugged while staking out the park.
December 1, 1951
Clinton Pace
Mary Smith is slain at the cut-rate Hotel Savannah.
A drunk reports the death of Lucille Baker, who has been strangled.
A Christmas fantasy in which, for once, Danny Clover plays second fiddle to Sergeant Tartaglia in the hunt for the missing scimitar of Genghis Khan.
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