Police Headquarters
Police Headquarters was a 1932 crime radio drama. Bruce Eells Associates produced this series[1] which was syndicated to West Coast NBC radio stations[2]. 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[3]. A total of thirty-nine episodes were produced[4].
The program centered around 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[5]. While the programs were based upon actual cases, the cases had not always been solved (as presented in the program)[6]. The police in the drama would investigate a murder, a bank robbery, etc. and apprehend the perpetrators[7].
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- Battles, Kathleen (2010). Calling All Cars: Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816649143. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/battles_calling.html.
- "Police Headquarters - Old Time Radio". Old Time Radio Catalog. http://www.otrcat.com/police-headquarter-p-1733.html. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
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