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21st Precinct "The Bartender" (7-21-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
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English - January 11, 2008 23:07 - 29 minutes - 6.65 MB - ★★★★ - 74 ratingsKids & Family Comedy westerns adventure comedy detective drama otr radio suspense theater western Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
21ST PRECINCT was one of the realistic police drama series of the early- to mid-1950's that were aired in the wake of DRAGNET. Hard-boiled private detective series that often portrayed police as inept or incompetent were losing favor. NBC's DRAGNET had proven that a realistic police show could attract and hold an audience.
NOTE: The official title of the series according to the series scripts and the CBS series promotional materials was 21ST PRECINCT and not TWENTY-FIRST PRECINCT or TWENTY FIRST PRECINCT which appears in many Old-Time Radio books. In 1953 CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for their own half-hour police series and focus o the day-to-day operations of a single police precinct. Actual cases would be used as the basis for stories.