Frank Lovejoy

Night is when the city comes alive full of promise. Randy stood on the corner watching the world go by, cataloguing each and every person and happening, when a car came by and clipped a guy holding a black case, knocking him over. Randy went to help him, but he was okay and disappeared into the street into a bar called the Glamour Palace. Randy followed him, realizing that he had the guy’s hat.

For Randy Stone of the Chicago Star, stories begin in many ways. This one began with a Halloween killing and ended with a black cat sweet revenge.

It was a busy Wednesday night. Barnes on the city desk asked me to lend a hand and I filled in for a couple of hours. I'd just finished taking notes over the headphones when the switchboard buzzed me with a personal.

This radio drama stars Frank Lovejoy in twelve half-hour episodes that aired in 1950, during the golden age of radio.Among several newspaper-based dramas during radio's golden age, Night Beat was a cut above the others. It was the story of Randy Stone, a hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the headlines.Frank Lovejoy starred as Randy Stone, who came to vivid life thanks to expert scripts by Russell Hughes,...

"This Is Your FBI" was a radio crime drama that aired from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953 and featured true cases from FBI told from an agent's viewpoint. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover called it "the finest dramatic program on the air."