Monday, March 17, 2014

Cops and Robbers (CBSW)

A fictional crime is solved on the air by unscripted policemen.

As with many of the CBS Radio Workshop shows, this is a kind of experiment for radio. Stanley Niss made up a crime, then gave the actors a script to follow ... as far as they could. Then he set real-life cops to question them and get to the bottom of the crime.

In the beginning the cops sound like they are reading something to me. Possibly some facts off a sheet. But then it starts to feel more natural. Some of the things they say are both funny and scary. Notice how they get the couple to feel guilty about shacking up.

CBS Radio Workshop #8
Cops and Robbers
19 Mar 1956
19560319(008)_CBSW_CopsAndRobbers.mp3
John Sylvester, Larry Haines, Elspeth Eric, Ken Lynch, Stanley Niss (narrator, writer, conceiver, director), Paul Roberts (producer), Art Hannes (announcer)



1956 Ford Safety Patrol




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