Calling All Cars - The Laughing Killer (02-10-37)

The Laughing Killer (Aired February 10, 1937)

Calling All Cars was one of radio’s earliest cop show, 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:

February 10, 1937. Program #168. CBS Pacific net (Don Lee network) origination, syndicated. "The Laughing Killer". Music fill for local commercial insert. No law enforcement officer appears as the host. A gas station operator has been held up by three men with overcoats and hats...or were there only two of them? Gale Gordon (dispatcher, host). 26:40. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.