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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, they were presented in the program as successfully solved, regardless of the actual outcome. [4] The police in the drama would investigate a murder, a bank robbery, etc. and apprehend the perpetrators. In some cases the drama was identifying the perpetrator, while more often it was in apprehending them. [5]

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References

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


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