Season’s Greetings from Casey, Christmas Photographer
I mentioned these Christmas episodes last year in my other blog before starting JHeroes.com, but ’tis the season… “Casey, Crime Photographer” was the radio version of a pulp fiction and movie...
View ArticleA Casey New Year: More than one way to get a headache
http://ia600202.us.archive.org/13/items/Casey_Crime_Photographer/1948-01-01_0218_-_Casey_Crime_Photographer_-_Hot_New_Year_s_Party_-_32-22_-_27m58s.mp3Sticking with both “Crime Photographer” and my...
View ArticleCrime Photographer Thanksgivings
Working holidays Casey, Crime Photographer was a weekly fixture on CBS radio for a dozen years, 1943-55, and listeners probably felt they were dropping into the Blue Note Cafe along with the hero and...
View ArticleLanding a Newspaper Job; Cameraman Tells All
Some of my favorite “newsroom scenes” in old radio shows involve a young reporter trying to land a job. Here’s the first of a couple of episodes where the job-hunter is a would-be photojournalist. This...
View ArticleReporters as ‘practically policemen’
https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Casey_Crime_Photographer_Singles/Casey47-02-20173TheTwentyMinuteAlibi.mp3 This “Twenty-minute Alibi” episode from “Crime Photographer,” February 1947, almost makes me...
View ArticleA Clue in the Clouds
https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Casey_Crime_Photographer_Singles/Casey44-02-2633TheClueInTheCloudscaseyPressPhotographer.mp3 Long before the advent of Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, “The Clue in the...
View ArticleNewsies in the Dusty Attic
During the past month, “The Dusty Attic,” a classic-radio program of the Radio Talking Books Service offered a series of four hour-long programs on the same theme as “Newspaper Heroes on the Air,”...
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