September 27, 2008
Calling All Cars - Feb. 24, 1937
“Calling All Cars” was a fixture on radio throughout the 1930s, a “true life” crime drama series sponsored by Rio Grande Oil on CBS’s West Coast stations and broadcast via transcription to stations throughout the Southwest.
In this post, “The Banker Bandit”, originally broadcast on February 24, 1937. The story, of course, concerns an exciting bank robbery. If you’ve never heard the show before, it may remind you of a more primitive version of “Gangbusters” or “Dragnet”.
Because of the distribution of the series through transcriptions, almost every episode in the series survives. If you like the show, you might want to check out a cd set produced by the First Generation Radio Archives of digitally restored programs from the series.
The program was transferred from an original Freeman Lang shellac transcription, probably pressed by Columbia, matrix numbers Matrix numbers L-8128 and L8129. My apologies for some surface noise on side one - the disc is a bit warped.
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