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This "best remembered" of all the
crime stoppers shows was billed as "the only national program that
brings you authentic police case histories." Phillips H. Lord, already
in radio, was looking for a new show concept. He hit upon the angle
doing a crime show, like the gangster films of the early 1930's, but
making it the real thing, about the real criminals and cops and the FBI.
A cross between the newspapers and the movies…what an idea! He went
right to Washington, and got the tacit approval of J. Edgar Hoover
himself to develop a show that used only closed cases (thus getting a
good outcome) and had a solid law-enforcement slant. Lord wrote his
first episode right in the Justice Building in Washington. The show
began on NBC as "The G-Men," with Chevrolet as sponsor. |
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