Police Headquarters

Police Headquarters was a 1932 crime radio drama. Bruce Eells Associates produced this series which was syndicated to West Coast NBC radio stations.[1] Each program lasted for about 15 minutes: music was featured in the first part of the show, an announcer would do a commercial or two, then the 12 minute episode would follow. A total of thirty-nine episodes were produced.[2]

The program centered on a citizen reporting a crime via telephone and police use of two-way radio to set up a dragnet to find criminals and solve cases.[3] While the programs were based upon actual cases, the cases had not always been solved (as presented in the program).[4] The police in the drama would investigate a murder, a bank robbery, etc. and apprehend the perpetrators.[5]

Notes

  1. Battles 2010, p. 34.
  2. Battles 2010, p. 43.
  3. Battles 2010, p. 43, 174.
  4. Battles 2010, p. 34.
  5. Battles 2010, p. 43.

See also

old-time radio

References


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