Calling All Cars — 1935
53 episodes broadcast in 1935.
A patrolman is found shot in the back, in a case framed around juvenile delinquency.
Six men hold up the Chrysler Creamery.
A highway robber and killer does his work disguised as a policeman.
A Tucson bank vice president is kidnapped from his home.
A Stockton murder points detectives toward a suspect named Pete Heliopolis.
A masked man wrecks and robs a train.
Two masked men rob a bank -- the opening move of a crime spree.
A female narcotics-squad undercover agent is found dead.
A case built around deadly traffic accidents on the city's streets and highways.
A rebroadcast of the Mae West jewel-robbery case, one of the show's outstanding early episodes.
March 19, 1935
The Mae West Jewel Robbery
The story of a talented man who could not cope with life, hosted from Oakland by Chief Bodey Wallman.
The Secret Service enlists four local officers to break up a planned revolution in Mexico.
A kidnapping by two men and a blonde ties into the case of the first woman electrocuted in Pennsylvania.
A burglar is discovered on Hollywood Boulevard.
Three young men steal a car in San Francisco and shoot three men dead.
A body wearing a gold ring and a silver belt buckle is found buried in a basement.
A wife and baby vanish, and a dead infant is found buried under a heap of tin cans.
A rancher is found murdered near Fresno.
The disappearance of Father Patrick Heslin in San Mateo.
Three Tulsa high-schoolers start down the road to murder.
A Long Beach bank holdup and a free-spending Russian immigrant suitor.
Stolen Liberty Bonds are being unloaded for the remnants of Pretty Boy Floyd's gang.
A merchant is found hatchet-murdered in his San Diego store.
A con artist poses as a European nobleman.
A train robbery in Contra Costa County.
Mrs. Maude Ross is found murdered in her home.
An unidentified woman's body is found near San Fernando.
A narcotics raid closes the last opium den in Los Angeles's Chinatown.
A plane smuggles undocumented immigrants across the California border.
A plane smuggles undocumented immigrants across the California border.
A man is murdered during a produce-market holdup.
A woman's torso in the Los Angeles River leaves a single hair as the only clue.
A man is shot down by an unknown assailant.
A Fresno murder and robbery, made harder to crack by the area's many migratory workers.
A bank robbery at the corner of Adams and Figueroa.
Two convicts escape the Stockton jail in the San Joaquin Valley.
A young woman last seen with a gray-haired man is kidnapped near Brownell Avenue.
Nineteen-year-old Henry Stevens escapes from the county jail.
Arson and dynamite destroy a building -- and, unusually, the suspect is cleared and the crime left unsolved.
Two robbery-and-murder suspects flee up Topanga Canyon in a Chrysler roadster.
A theatre holdup in Westwood kills an officer, as Chief Davis marks the show's 100th broadcast.
Four men commit a murder at Eleventh and Maple.
Petty criminal Nails Cronan climbs to big-shot status in the dope rackets.
A man hires an out-of-town killer to murder his wife -- with film star Charles Bickford guesting.
Two armed and desperate men rob the Pasadena National Bank.
November 27, 1935
The Killer Returns
Parolee Clyde Stevens fails to report to his San Francisco parole office.
A body under a Westwood bridge stems from a diamond-ring robbery gone wrong.
Trigger-happy holdup man Jules Rubin robs actress Polly Moran and goes on a rampage with girlfriend Burma White.
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