Calling All Cars — 1934
53 episodes broadcast in 1934.
A daylight jewelry-store holdup on Terminal Island sends detectives after two dark-complexioned robbers.
Two shadowy figures break into a San Diego Ford agency in the dead of a May night.
The abduction of a USC music dean's child triggers a major Los Angeles ransom hunt.
An almost hopeless murder case is cracked by the clue of three grooved bullets.
An alert amateur detective helps police solve a famous holiday-season diamond robbery.
The murder of a policeman in Laurel Heights hangs on the trail of a battered old Ford.
Detectives investigate the bombing of the Los Angeles Times offices.
The real robbery of Mae West's jewels and cash is dramatized, with Martha Wentworth impersonating the star.
March 7, 1934
The William Tallman Case
A woman's body in a vacant lot opens a case rooted in a late-summer family dinner.
The show dramatizes the manhunt for the armed and dangerous Dillinger gang.
A pyromaniac's fire does $147,000 in damage and launches a hunt for the arsonist.
A young woman needed as a federal witness is mysteriously poisoned.
A young woman is murdered on 99th Street.
The mutilated body of a young woman is found on Montecito Street.
One honest cop breaks a narcotics deal his superiors had ordered him to ignore.
Southgate's first-ever murder draws detectives to San Gabriel Avenue.
A police lieutenant is murdered by an unknown assailant.
The abduction of wealthy William Gettle sparks the biggest manhunt in the Southwest's history.
A shooting on Echo Park Avenue shows how the identification bureau's routine work cracks crimes.
The Police Record Department tracks a pair of robbers who have worked the Wilshire district for months.
An immigrant's brother arrives from the old country in a true case that ends in murder.
A bank-robbing gang guns down a brave Los Angeles officer in the line of duty.
A help-wanted ad for a man with nerve turns out to be recruiting for a payroll robbery.
An Independence Day ride-along in a police radio car -- a slice of actual life on the beat.
July 4, 1934
July Fourth, 1934
Fingerprints identify the two men who shot and robbed Officer 734.
A smuggling gang runs a new form of morphine into California.
Federal agents stake out and gun down Public Enemy Number One, just seventy-two hours before broadcast.
Robbers blow the safe of the Fifth Street Department Store with nitroglycerine.
A young woman's body turns up in the Mojave Desert near Lancaster.
An officer is shot on Stanford Avenue.
An officer is shot and killed during a bank holdup.
Police hunt a well-dressed young man passing worthless checks.
After a holdup and shooting on 50th Street, an officer works to free a wrongly held man.
Three men scale a San Francisco house on Filbert Street and make off with $25,000 in loot.
Two women's bodies found in trunks at an Arizona depot lead to the Ruth Judd murder case.
A hit-and-run in Long Beach.
A dope ring operates out of San Francisco's Skid Row.
The occupants of a black coupe shoot a San Jose police officer.
An unidentified man's body is found beside the highway near Oxnard.
A burglary at a North Broadway grocery company is cracked by a trouser-cuff clue.
A murder in Walnut Creek turns on ex-convict Frank Carney, hardened by fifteen years in prison.
A murder on Riverside Drive, solved under the direction of the Los Angeles sheriff.
Detectives chase a narcotics ring working out of a Hollywood Chinese restaurant.
An unidentified body in monogrammed cufflinks is found under a bridge.
Opening its second year, the show follows Det. Lt. Joe Philkus on a case where the victim wasn't murdered at all.
Two sharp-eyed citizens help police hunt two robbery suspects.
A poisoning murder in a schoolhouse.
A holdup and murder in San Diego.
A Christmas broadcast on the human side of the beat cop -- complete with a red-suited, fur-trimmed suspect.
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