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The Long Blue Line

Lieutenant Terence O’Neill, the latest in 100 years of O’Neill policemen, is assigned to the recently reopened case of a murdered Broadway actor, previously worked on by his father, Inspector O’Neill. As the younger O’Neill reconstructs the past, he begins to realize his father may have had more than a professional interest in the case.

A decade-old murder case comes back to life, and police pick an Irish-American detective whose family has served on the force for generations to solve it. But as he gets closer to the truth, he discovers his own retired cop father is mixed up in the crime.

When a 10 year old homicide is resurrected, a fourth generation Irish cop is chosen to lead the investigation. As he closes in on the answers, he is disturbed to learn that his retired father is involved in the case.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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“The Long Blue Line.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, April 24, 1981.

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