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  1. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    The opening signature was vivid and long-remembered, with a thrilling theme and a gusty "Voice of the Law" giving the hero's credo: Mister District Attorney! Champion of the people! Defender of truth! Guardian of our fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! ORCHESTRA: Theme, up full. VOICE OF THE LAW {from echo chamber}: … and it shall be my duty as district attorney not only to prosecute to the limit of the law all persons accused of crimes perpetrated within this county but to defend with equal vigor the rights and privileges of all its citizens
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  2. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    The result was a show of startling realism for its day. It had the air of a front-page newspaper story. At first NBC was nervous over his predictions of major crime waves; then, when they came to pass, the network took pride in his accuracy. Both the network and the government were uneasy when Byron's DA began foiling Nazis. On the show of June 17, 1942, Byron ran a story about Nazi submarines dropping spies along the Atlantic coast. G-men had arrested real spies that same week and were preparing to break the news themselves. Byron got a "visit" from the FBI after his show.
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  3. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    Con games occurred most often in the spring; juvenile delinquency in the summer; husbands and wives killed each other in the fall; burglaries were most common in winter. Byron had statistics to prove this, but he went beyond dry facts. Weekly for more than ten years he donned the clothes of a working man and plunged into some of the roughest bars in town. He rubbed elbows with thieves, lackeys, and off-duty cops in his search for material. At 40, he was an expert on con games.
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  4. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    Mr. and Mrs. North was conceived for radio as it had begun in literature: as a light comedy. When he wrote the original stories for the New Yorker in the 1930s, Richard Lockridge made them light domestic misadventures. It wasn't until 1940, when Lockridge teamed with his wife, Frances, that the Norths met murder and steam-rolled their way into the most successful husband-and-wife crimefighting series of the day.
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  5. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    MR. AND MRS. NORTH, mystery melodrama, based on the novels by Frances and Richard Lockridge.
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  6. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    Mr. District Attorney was for many years the nation's best-liked crime show. It was inspired by the exploits of Thomas E. Dewey, New York's racket-busting DA of the late '30s, whose front-page war against racketeers and corruption swept him into the governor's office and culminated in two serious runs for the presidency.
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  7. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    MICHAEL SHAYNE, detective melodrama, based on the books by Brett Halliday.
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  8. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    At CBS, it was pursued by William S. Paley himself, who scheduled a demonstration of sound quality for Met chairman Otto Kahn. Paley recalled {in his memoir} that Kahn was inspired as he listened. "Just imagine," he cried, "hearing that wonderful music and we don't have to look at those ugly faces!
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  9. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    Koch visited his family on Monday, his day off. Driving back through New Jersey, he picked up a road map at a gas station. In his New York apartment, he opened the map, closed his eyes, and dropped his pencil point. This was where the Martians would land, a village called Grovers Mill, surrounded by farmland. Koch liked the sound of it: it had "an authentic ring" to it, he would remember, and this play would need all the authenticity he could give it.
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  10. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    Millions for Defense was one of the first big Treasury Department shows of the war. It predated Pearl Harbor by six months and sounded a warning call for hard times ahead. Fred Allen was opening-night master of ceremonies. Typical of these war shows, it had all of Hollywood and New York at its beck and call, all free talent. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour headlined the July 9 show. Bette Davis, Lily Pons, Abbott and Costello, Tyrone Power, and Claudette Colbert were on subsequent broadcasts. The show was quite popular in the waning months of summer, and when Fred Allen reclaimed his slot in the fall, Millions simply shifted networks and became The Treasury Hour.
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  11. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    His first script was Hell on Ice, from the book by Edward Ellsberg.
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  12. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    The Cabbage Patch of the Alice Hegan Rice novel was taken from a real slum in Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Wiggs was described as "a friend of every neighbor; always first to forget herself and lend a helping hand."
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