Here's another series I haven't blogged about before; 21st Precinct was one of many police procedural shows that drifted into radio through the wake of Dragnet but it was a little different - there wasn't much action or gunplay, it dealt in the humdrum daily life of a police precinct and the variety of cases that came through their doors, which didn't always mean there was a crime to be solved. It ran on CBS from 1953-1956 with Everett Sloane in the lead as Captain Canelli.
In the bittersweet Christmas episode "The Giver" (December 22, 1954), the police are called to investigate an old man who is said to be selling merchandise from his apartment. As it turns out, he's not selling it - he's giving it away - and he can't account for why it was all delivered to his apartment in the first place!
Another Christmas radio program tomorrow!
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