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The Line-up - Find Carl Young (02-08-51)

February 10, 2013
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Find Carl Young (Aired February 8, 1951)


The Line-Up stands as one of the most well-produced crime dramas of The Golden Age of Radio. The cast is comprised of top-tier, A-List talent from top to bottom. With Elliott Lewis directing his cast of some of the finest voice talent of the era--and top-drawer sound technicians to match--this series remains one of the best examples of the Crime Drama genre. Think of Calling All Cars, minus the jingoistic flag-waving, updated to contemporary 1950s crime themes, and peppered with the more authentic radio-verité atmospherics of Unit 99, Night Watch, and Dragnet, and you have The Line-Up. It's also been one of the most difficult series to collect over the years. The good news is that with new episodes surfacing each year, there's every possibility that we'll soon have a complete run of the series to enjoy in its entirety. Bill Johnstone gives his usual solid performance as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie of the San Francisco Police Department. He's aided for the first year of the run by the equally solid Wally Maher, with his gritty, sardonic voice characterizations. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.

THIS EPISODE:

February 8, 1951. CBS network. "Find Carl Young" aka: The Senile Slugging Case. Sustaining. Four street assaults have taken place, and the last one results in the death of an old woman. A stake-out in a bowling alley yields the perpetrator: Carl Young. The scrup was subsequently used on "The Line-Up" on Septemeber 12, 1951. William Johnstone, Wally Maher, Eddie Dunstedter (music), Jaime del Valle (producer, director), Dan Cubberly (announcer), Blake Edwards (writer), Hy Averback, Sidney Miller, Bill Bouchey, Herb Butterfield, Barton Yarborough (doubles), Sammie Hill, Mary Lansing, Howard McNear, Tim Graham. 30:03.


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