Crime Classics
CRIME CLASSICS aired first on CBS as a summer replacement series for SUSPENSE, from June 15, 1953 though Sept 7, 1953. It continued the following season for a single season, aining from Sept. 30, 1953 to June 30, 1954. CRIME CLASSICS dramatized true crime dramas from history for the radio audience. Low Merrill narrated. It was produced by Elliott Lewis. The shows were directed by Elliott Lewis and Ken McMannus. Announcers for the series were Robert Lemond, Roy Rowen and Larry Thor. The series sustained for the Summer run and may have been without a sponsor for the regular series.
52/12/03 0 The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner (Audition) 53/06/15 1 Crime of Bathsheba Spooner 53/06/22 2 The Shockingly Peaceful Passing of Thomas Edwin Bartlett 53/06/29 3 The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of Colonel James Fisk, 53/07/06 4 The Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew, Senior 53/07/13 5 The Terrible Deed of John White Webster 53/07/20 6 The Death of a Picture Hanger 53/07/27 7 The Final Day of General Ketchum 53/08/03 8 Mr Thrower's Hammer 53/08/10 9 The Axe and the Droot Family 53/08/17 10 The Incredible Trial of Laura D Fair 53/08/24 11 The Alsop Family 53/08/31 12 Your Loving Son, Nero 53/09/07 13 The Torment of Henrietta Robinson 53/09/30 14 The Bloody, Bloody Banks of Fall River 53/10/07 15 The Hangman and William Palmer 53/10/14 16 The Seven Layered Arsenic Cake of Madame Lafarge 53/10/21 17 Billy Bonny Bloodletter 53/10/28 18 John Hayes 53/11/04 19 Raschi Among the Crocodiles 53/11/11 20 Blackbeard's Fourteenth Wife 53/11/18 21 The Triangle on the Round Table 53/11/25 22 The Killing Story of William Corder and the Farmer's Daughter 53/12/02 23 If a Body Need a Body, Just Call Burke and Hare 53/12/09 24 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 53/12/16 25 John and Judith 53/12/30 26 Coyle and Richardson 54/01/06 27 The Younger Brothers 54/01/13 28 How Supan Got the Hook Outside Bombey 54/01/20 29 Madeline Smith, Maid or Murderess 54/01/27 30 The Boorn Brothers and the Hangman 54/02/03 31 The Incredible History of John Shepard 54/02/10 32 Twenty-Three Knives Against Caesar 54/02/17 33 Jean Baptiste Troppmann 54/02/24 34 The Good Ship Jane 54/03/03 35 Roger Nems 54/03/17 37 Old Sixtoes 54/03/31 39 Robby-Boy Balfour 54/04/07 40 A General's Daughter, Czar's Lieutenant and the Linen Closet - A Russian Tragedy 54/04/14 41 James Evans, Fireman 54/04/21 42 Cesare Borgia - His Most Difficult Murder 54/04/28 43 Widow Magee and the Three Gypsies 54/05/05 44 Bunny Baumler 54/05/12 45 Mr Clarke's Skeleton in Mr Aram's Closet 54/05/26 46 The Lethal Habit of Marquise De Brinvilliers 54/06/02 47 Mr Jonathon Jewett 54/06/09 48 The Assassination of Leon Trotsky 54/06/16 49 The Death of a Baltimore Birdie and Friend 54/06/23 50 Ali Pasha; a Turkish Delight 54/06/30 51 Good Evening, My Name Is Jack the Ripper