Laugh-A-Minute Tyler: Broadway Is My Beat (March 14, 1953)

“Laugh-A-Minute Tyler” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 14, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective McCarthy investigates the murder of Tyler Gosdon, a practical joker found beaten to death in an alley behind West Third Street. As McCarthy questions those who knew the victim, he discovers Tyler had connections to at least two women and uncovers a web of relationships and conflicts that may have led to his death.

New York City, including the Lane Hotel on West 39th Street, a city morgue, an alley behind West Third Street, and an apartment on East 58th Street near the East River

Characters: Detective McCarthy, Mr. Dorsey, Mr. Clover, Tyler Gosden, Miss Tankersley, A woman at the hotel, Valerie Moore

Listen for: The discovery of Tyler's body and the initial questioning of hotel staff and acquaintances who knew him as a prankster and ladies' man; the emergence of Valerie Moore as a person of interest.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.