Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod "Nightwatch" Kidnap (11-11-54)


Kidnap (Aired November 11, 1954)


Nightwatch. Real police recordings, no actors are used. Car 54 and police reporter Donn Reed answer the first all, a Code 2 alert that a burglary is taking place. A woman is pushed in the bathroom by an alcoholic young man wearing a tie. He's captured in another house...wearing no clothes! A patrol through Culver City. Later, two witnesses to a homicide are interviewed. The suspect is captured and confesses on the air. Chief W. N. Hildebrand tells how the cases were resolved. Sterling Tracy (supervisor), Donn Reed (police reporter), W. N. Hildebrand. These are examples of this "real-time" action series.


THIS EPISODE:

November 11, 1954. CBS network. Sustaining. "Kidnap" - The first call is about a juvenile "blowing his top" on marijuana. A kidnap case follows. Donn Reed (police recorder), W. N. Hildebrand (Chief of Police), Sterling Tracy (producer, director), Jim Headlock (producer), Ron Perkins (technical advisor). 24:59.

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