The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 77
- Genre
- detective
CASEY, CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER This series went on the air on July 7, 1943 and lasted until April 22, 1955. A total of 431 episodes were broadcast. Casey, Crime Photographer had more history than substance. It was a B-grade radio detective on a par perhaps with The Adventures of the Falcon , better than Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons , but lacking the style and polish of The Adventures of Sam Spade . Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask , under the watchful eyes of then-editor Joseph Shaw, Flashgun Casey was the originally fast-talking crime photographer, a big, hot-tempered Boston Mick with a gift for gab and a nose for trouble. No "artiste", Casey kept a bottle of hooch and a .38 in his desk drawer, and boasted of being able to put a "slug where he aimed" and having "two big fists he knew how to use". He appeared in several short stories in the pulps and several novels. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Casey_Crime_Photographer_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Casey 43-07-07 1 The Case of the Switched Plates [Flash-Gun Casey] · Date unknown
- 2. Casey 47-04-24 182 The Gentle Strangler · Date unknown
- 3. Casey 47-10-09 206 The Wedding Breakfast · Date unknown
Casey 43-07-07 1 The Case of the Switched Plates [Flash-Gun Casey]
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Casey 47-04-24 182 The Gentle Strangler
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Casey 47-10-09 206 The Wedding Breakfast
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Casey 47-12-25 217 The Santa Claus of Bums' Blvd
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Casey 48-03-11 228 Fog
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Casey 50-05-04 339 The Suicide
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Casey 46-09-05 149 The Handkerchief
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Casey 47-07-17 194 Casey and the Self-Made Hero (2nd Repeat of # 36)
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Casey, Crime Photographer was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Casey, Crime Photographer
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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