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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1938-39
embroidery that characterizes most melodramatic programs on the air.
Gang Busters today is recognized by police officials as an active civic agency in crime prevention work and receives the cooperation and assistance of police chiefs throughout the nation. Each week Gang Busters broadcasts over a nationwide CBS network clues furnished by police officials for criminals wanted by various police officials. Through these clues over a hundred and thirty-five criminals have been apprehended by police officers, a fact not generally known to the public.
Gang Busters, with its dramatic slogan, “Crime Does Not Pay,” has been endorsed by prominent educators, criminologists, and penologists as an effective aid in crime prevention work.
One of the most effective and elaborate sound-effects setups in radio is used in this program. Three modem turntables with the latest gadgets, plus all kinds of manual equipment, keep two or three sound engineers busy during rehearsals and air shows. Gang Busters is considered a pioneer program in the use of new and startling sound technique, and many of the devices and effects that are now commonplace were developed by this series.
Studio productions are handled personally by Phillips H. Lord, nimble creator of Seth Parker, We the People, Mr. District Attorney, and other hits. Most of the scripts are compact, well knit, and spunky, filled with plausible action, understandable plotting, and the properly acrid aroma of professional police work. In a dramatic series dedicated solely to the pursuit and conviction of public enemies, it is remarkable that the temptation to go overboard in a splash of histrionic bathos has been so well resisted. “The Eddie Doll Case,” which has been selected for this book, is a fine example of the series. It is not, and should not be, literature. It is straight, compressed dialogue, and for its type, the show performs its function with economy and direction and a commendable absence of hokum. Its chief virtue is that, although it is muscular throughout, it is nowhere musclebound.
“The Eddie Doll Case” was heard over the CBS Network January 18, 1939.
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