Crime Classics
Crime Classics is a CBS radio docudrama series dramatizing historical crimes with a literate, ironic narration style.
Crime Classics is a United States radio docudrama which aired as a sustaining series over CBS Radio from June 15, 1953, to June 30, 1954.
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Crime Classics. Radio program.
Original schedule
- 19538:00 PMCBS/WCBS · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1953–19549:30 PMCBS/WCBS · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
Larry Thor
Announcer
RRobert Lemond
Announcer
RRoy Rowen
Announcer
Ben Wright
Cast
Georgia Ellis
Cast
H
Herbert 'Herb' Butterfield
Cast
Lou Merrill
Cast
Mary Jane Croft
Cast
Sam Edwards
Cast
Tudor Owen
Cast
W
William 'Bill' Johnstone
Cast
Elliott Lewis
Director
KKen McMannus
Director
LLee Millar
Jonathan Jewett
Elliott Lewis
Producer
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