Episode 444 – Noses for News (Casey, Crime Photographer, Big Town, Night Beat, & Hollywood Sound Stage)

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We're saluting the old time radio heroes of the fourth estate - reporters, editors, and photographers who solved the crimes they covered. We'll hear Staats Cotsworth as <em>Casey, Crime Photographer</em> in "Death in Lover's Lane" (originally aired on CBS on August 7, 1947). Then, the staff of the <em>Illustrated Press</em> hunts for a killer in "Death by Plan" from <em>Big Town</em> (originally aired on NBC on November 9, 1948). Frank Lovejoy is Randy Stone in <em>Night Beat</em> and "Wanna Buy a Story?" (originally aired on NBC on September 18, 1950). Finally, Dana Andrews stars in a radio adaptation of <em>Call Northside 777</em> - the true story of a reporter fighting to clear a wrongfully convicted man - from <em>Hollywood Sound Stage</em> (originally aired on CBS on December 27, 1951).</span></p>