There were several newspaper-based dramas during radio’s golden age including “THE BEST Story,” “Casey, Crime Photographer”, “Box 13”, and “Let George GET IT DONE” but “Night Beat” was a cut over the others.Evening Beat followed Randy Rock, a hard-nosed Chicago Superstar newsman and his search for the human-interest tale behind the news.

Hollywood professional Frank Lovejoy voiced the function of Randy Rock, who brought the character to vivid existence thanks to professional scripts compiled by Russell Hughes, E. Jack about Night Beat, Collection 1 Neumann, John Michael Hayes (who would later create the Hitchcock film classics “To Capture a Thief” and “Rear Screen”), and Larry Marcus.

Lovejoy’s distinctive voice and method of the role, coupled with top shows by veteran radio actors, gave “Evening Defeat” a radio noir design that listeners liked. The stories went the gamut from lighthearted to tragic and through it all, Randy Stone, in a hard-boiled yet delicate portrayal, would narrate the stories and touch upon them from starting to end-often having a hard-edged cynicism.”Night Defeat” aired on NBC radio from 1950 to 1952 and, for a time, was sponsored by Wheaties.

Appreciate 12 half-hour episodes of one of the greatest dramas ever to be noticed on radio. 5-5-50 THE LADY From Kansas5-22-50 I Want You Were Deceased5-29-50 Harlan Matthews, Stamp Seller6-12-50 The Football Player as well as the Syndicate6-19-50 Vincent and the Painter6-26-50 The Juvenile Gangster7-3-50 Marty7-10-50 ‘Twil Be the Loss of life of Me7-17-50 Molly Keller10-27-50 The Doctor’s Little girl11-3-50 The Dark Cat11-10-50 A Woman’s Tears