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Robbery rode the show train until police officers found the mysterious passenger and stopped murder on the carnival midway.
Gangbusters – The Case Of The Carnival Caper
Robert Dryden (narrator-by-proxy), Arthur Vinton, Bill Smith, Frank Readick, Jean Ellen, Stanley Niss (writer), Phillips H. Lord (producer), William Sweets (director), Don Gardiner (announcer).
ABC network. Sponsored by World Wide Handicrafts. WRVR rebroadcast date: April 18, 1974.
A father and son team specialize in kidnapping, theft and murder.
This program is noted for its use of a melodeon instead of the usual organ.
Gangbusters – The Case of the Quincy Killers
Ted Corday (director), Stanley Niss (writer), William Zuckert, Bill Smith, Phillips H. Lord (producer), Don Gardiner (announcer), Ben Hunter (KEX Portland Oregon announcer).
ABC network origination, syndicated, WRVR-FM, New York rebroadcast.
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics goes after Pip Gagliano, known as “The Narcotics King.”
Gangbusters – The Case of the New York Narcotics King
Don Gardiner (announcer), Mandel Kramer, Phillips H. Lord (producer), Raymond Edward Johnson, Stanley Niss (writer, director), William Sweets (director).
ABC network origination, syndicated, WRVR-FM, New York rebroadcast.
The case of a fourth-rate hijacker who found a bullet-proof racket to rob Peter without paying Paul, but who learned too late that the law itself is bullet-proof.
Gangbusters – The Case Of The Horse-Race Highjackers
Robert Dryden (narrator-by-proxy), Larry Haines, William Zuckert, Stanley Niss (writer), Phillips H. Lord (producer), William Sweets (director), Don Gardiner (announcer).
ABC network origination, syndicated, WRVR-FM, New York rebroadcast.
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