In the Beginning… from the New York Times, February 18, 1949 CBS announces a new mystery-adventure show for the half-hour beginning at 10:30 tonight (February 18, 1949). It replaces the Percy Faith-Jane Froman program which was concluded last Friday when Coca-Cola failed to renew its sponsorship. The new program is entitled “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,”
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Dick Powell was known as a song and dance man until his rebirth as a movie tough guy in Murder My Sweet, where he played Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. He then appeared in a string of crime and detective flicks, and eventually parlayed it into a successful radio show. Powell played RICHARD DIAMOND, “radio’s singing gumshoe”, an ex-OSS
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Dragnet, syndicated as Badge 714, is a long-running radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a “dragnet”, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet was perhaps
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Dragnet, syndicated as Badge 714, is a long-running radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a “dragnet”, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet was perhaps
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Dragnet, syndicated as Badge 714, is a long-running radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a “dragnet”, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet was perhaps
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