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The Dr Robbie Mc Clure Murder Case

Broadway is My Beat · August 4, 1949 · 29 min · 4,710 words

The transcript of “The Dr Robbie Mc Clure Murder Case”, an episode of Broadway is My Beat first broadcast August 4, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Broadway Is My Beat plays Broadway is My Beat free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The FBI and Peace and War ordinarily heard at this time throughout the year is taking its usual summer vacation and will return to CDS four weeks from tonight on September 1st. Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the godiest, the most violent, the lonesome-est mile in the world.

My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Broadway, it's a promise you make to yourself in some dismal part of your life, or it's a name you say like a curse.

It's a place of golden women in mirrors of chrome, or it's a beggar who will tear off a piece of his soul for a cup of coffee. It's anything you want, any time you want it, and it's my beat.

By nine o'clock, police headquarters had settled down to its nighttime routine. So far, business was slow. I was sitting in my office, straightening out the detail sheets that all was accumulated on my desk. Good evening, son.

Well, Dr. McClure, Dr. Robbie McClure, it's a pleasure to see you. Sit down, sit down. Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Lieutenant. What's the matter? What's the matter, Dr. You look pale? I could give you all the clinical reasons for the way I look.

Now, Lieutenant. Let me get you something, Dr. I'll be right. No, no, wait, Lieutenant. Last month, it was a shooting. It's not that I want to confess to. It's the thing about... You should know about...

Last month I murdered... That the police never solved. Daddy, I don't want that to happen to me. I don't want that. Dr. McClure. Dr. McClure. Sergeant Sartaglia. Yes, Daddy. Come here. Yes. I watch you trouble, Daddy.

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