Broadway Is My Beat — 1953
47 episodes broadcast in 1953.
January 3, 1953
Douglas Haydn
Lona Hanson vanishes from her blood-spattered, ransacked home, and prizefighter Julio Rio falls under suspicion.
Clover is knocked cold arresting a murderer, and then a sweet little old lady walks in and confesses.
Trumpet player Joey Condon phones police to say he is dying, while a friend finds his death darkly amusing.
Helen Selby has been murdered, and the key to her killer lies with some old men.
Peggy Warner is found poisoned in an alley.
A rookie cop is stabbed, and his wife goes wild, trying to kill his sailor friend.
A universally hated pet-shop owner, John Perry, is found stabbed and dying.
A disturbed old man squats in a squalid room, hiding the weekly cash from his rich son -- and has shot someone dead with his .38.
A practical joker is beaten to death, and a woman is found hanging.
A wealthy, urbane man is told his wife has been found murdered in the trunk of a car.
A man who has been hoarding odd objects, convinced he will be killed, is knifed by an unknown attacker on a subway platform.
Wealthy real-estate man Frank Dayton is found stabbed to death with a letter opener in his apartment.
Myra Fuller is set to wed a murder suspect, but she is hiding a great deal more than that.
Harry Gray is murdered -- an unusual victim, carrying shrapnel in his neck.
Margaret Royce vanishes -- the report coming from a very odd sister and an even odder companion.
Sybil Crane is knifed and dumped in the street, and proves to have been more than she seemed.
A meek, obedient wife is found drunk with a knife in her hand.
A heavyset redheaded woman is dumped on the waterfront, seven slugs in her.
At the Ruxton Hotel, John Nelson is knifed to death.
George Lane is knifed to death in a run-down flophouse.
A woman named Joan is knifed to death, in a case that shadows a seemingly perfect marriage.
Surrounded by books, Sophie Bretton is shot dead.
A wealthy old cotton importer dies of alkaloid poisoning, and a nurse under suspicion ends up on a ledge, threatening to jump.
A boxer who once killed an opponent in the ring is pulled beaten and dying from the river.
A woman in silk kneels over her husband, shot in the spine, refusing to believe he is dead.
A high-end jeweler is found murdered in the apartment of a couple whose wife is a kleptomaniac -- and perhaps a killer.
Shot in the back, Phillip Tyler leaves behind a marriage strained by his odd bond with another woman.
Hilda Bruce is found murdered, her young son stunned at her side.
Mrs. Webb wakes from a dream of suffocation to find a pillow pressed over her face, just as her husband comes home.
A woman who vowed she would be dead within four years beats her own deadline by four days, with the help of poison and a car wreck.
A father and son, the Kroegers, are found murdered in a double killing.
Larry Burdette is found stabbed on a subway platform.
Wealthy Michael Austin is shot in the back and left paralyzed, and Clover sets out to learn who and why.
September 19, 1953
William Jackson
An old jeweler is robbed and murdered, and his young girlfriend is soon found dead as well.
October 3, 1953
Frankie Spain
A Central Park tennis hustler named Frankie Spain is beaten to death.
Harriet Temple is found strangled in her apartment, her husband oddly unmoved.
During a party on East 63rd, a neighbor finds Cora Lee dead in the bathtub, beaten and drowned.
Two public stenographers are murdered, and a strange young man is questioned.
November 4, 1953
Paul Holland
Janice Bennett is certified dead by the very doctor who fathered her, and her husband soon turns up hanged.
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