This Is Your FBI - The Skyway Swindle (03-08-45)The Skyway Swindle (Aired March 8, 1945)
This Is Your FBI was sponsored during its entire run by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (now AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company). This is Your FBI had counterparts on the other networks. The FBI in Peace and War also told stories of the FBI, although some were not authentic. Earlier on, Gangbusters, and the previously mentioned Mr. District Attorney gave the authentic crime treatment to their stories. And Dragnet, and Tales of the Texas Rangers, took the idea on as well. Crime, especially true crime, was a genre in the magazines early on, with the Police Gazette and its predecessors in England printing lurid true crime stories prior to radio. This is Your FBI took the idea, and made it realistic, exciting and even informational.
THIS EPISODE:
March 8, 1945. ABC network. "The Skyway Swindle". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society. Bill Renton discovers a plan to cheat investors with a non-existant series of airports and flying schools. Dean Carlton (narrator), Ed Begley, Frederick Steiner (music director), Carl Frank (announcer), Frank Faries (writer). 24:57. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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