This Is Your FBI - "Shotgun Hadley" (04-20-45)

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This Is Your FBI - "Shotgun Hadley" (04-20-45)

 

 

Shotgun Hadley (Aired April 20, 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: 

April 20, 1945. Blue Network. "The Case Of Shotgun Hadley". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society. The story of a crime against the home: kidnapping. Lesley Woods, Frank Lovejoy (narrator), Nathan Van Cleave (music director), Mandel Kramer, Lawrence MacArthur (writer), Jerry Devine (producer), Carl Frank (announcer). 28:25. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.