Nightbeat, Volume 1

Frank Lovejoy stars as hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman Randy Stone, a reporter who looks for the human stories behind the headlines. Lovejoy's distinctive voice and manner, combined with excellent scripts and performances by radio veterans like Lurene Tuttle, Peter Leeds, and Jeff Corey, give the series an unusual and engrossing style - literally film noir for the mind. One week the story is lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek, the next it's tragic with a downbeat ending; there are...
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Frank Lovejoy stars as hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman Randy Stone, a reporter who looks for the human stories behind the headlines. Lovejoy's distinctive voice and manner, combined with excellent scripts and performances by radio veterans like Lurene Tuttle, Peter Leeds, and Jeff Corey, give the series an unusual and engrossing style - literally film noir for the mind. One week the story is lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek, the next it's tragic with a downbeat ending; there are suspenseful races for time and quiet reflections on everyday life among the masses. Through it all Stone, in a sensitive portrayal by Frank Lovejoy, narrates the story and comments on it from beginning to end -- often with a hard-edged cynicism that covers his personal sense of fairness and morality. This second ten-hour Radio Archives collection, fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity, features twenty more shows from the series, just as originally aired in 1950.Programs include: The Girl from Kansas - June 5, 1950 / The Football Player and the Syndicate - June 12, 1950 / Vincent and the Painter - June 19, 1950 / The Juvenile Gangster - June 26, 1950 / Marty - July 3, 1950 / 'Twill Be the Death of Me - July 10, 1950 / Molly Keller - July 17, 1950 / The Devil's Bible - July 24, 1950 / The City at Your Fingertips - July 31, 1950 / Old Blind Pop - August 7, 1950 / Gunner's Last Fight - August 14, 1950 / The Doctor's Secret - August 21, 1950 / Old Home Week - September 4, 1950 / The Hunter Becomes the Hunted - September 11, 1950 / Wanna Buy a Story? - September 18, 1950 / A Case of Butter - September 25, 1950 / The Kenny Day Amnesia Case - October 6, 1950 / Einar Pierce and Family - October 13, 1950 / Judge Arnold's Daughter - October 20, 1950 / The Doctor's Daughter - October 27, 1950