Beer Bottle Murder (Aired April 24, 1936)
Calling All Cars was one of radio’s earliest cop shows, dramatizing true crime stories and introduced by officers from the Los Angeles and other police departments. The narrator of the program was speech professor Charles Frederick Lindsley, and the only other regular voice heard on the program week after week belonged to that of Sergeant Jesse Rosenquist of the L.A.P.D., whose name and voice were so unusually distinctive that he was retained for the show’s entire run. None of the actors on the show ever received on-air credit, but among the talent OTR fans can hear the likes of Elvia Allman, Jackson Beck, Charles Bickford, John Gibson, Richard LeGrand and Hanley Stafford, just to name a few.
THIS EPISODE:
April 24, 1936. Program #126. CBS Pacific network (Don Lee network). "The Beer Bottle Murder". Sponsored by: Rio Grande Oil. A body of a woman has been found murdered on Arlington Street. Charles Lindsley announces that Chief Davis cannot be on the program tonight. Just as he's about to read Chief Davis' introduction, Davis walks into the studio, so Charles Lindsley offers to give Davis his copy of the script! Davis takes the script and reads his part perfectly! Jesse Rosenquist (dispatcher), James E. Davis (host, Police Chief of Los Angeles), Charles Frederick Lindsley (narrator), John Gibson (?). 28:58.
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