The Shopping Bag Lady (Aired April 12, 1956)
21st Precinct was one of the realistic police drama series of the early- to mid-1950's that were aired in the wake of DRAGNET. In 1953 CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for their own half-hour police series and focus on the day-to-day operation of a single police precinct. Actual cases were used as the basis for stories. "21st Precinct.., It's just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the nine-tenths of a square mile between Fifth Avenue and the East River wouldn't know, if you asked them, that they lived or worked in the 21st. Whether they know it or not, the security of their persons, their homes, and their property is the job of the men of the 21st." The Precinct Captain acted as the narrator for the series.
THIS EPISODE:
April 12, 1956. CBS network origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Shopping Bag Lady". Elderly Mary Klatovy is run down and killed by a taxi cab. It is determined that she has $9643 in cash in her shopping bag. Everett Sloane, Stanley Niss (writer, director), Ken Lynch, Harold Stone, Lola Peyser, Jan Miner, Les Damon, Frank Campanella, George Bryan (announcer). 27:07. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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