Crime Drama (1949 - 1954)  
From Times Square to Columbus Circle
- the grandest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Broadway is My Beat is a popular detective drama that stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, an
ex shoe-shiner on the "Great White Way"
in New York. Later on, Clover made his living as a
superb police officer. It was his development on the
hard streets of Broadway, New York, that made him
such a threat to the villains, who were bogged down
in their shabby homes during the day, scheming of
ways to disturb the tranquility of the law-abiders.
The show's theme says it best:The still of August nighttime
is beyond crest now has broken, begun its downsurge,
and in the empty avenue there are trailings of phosphorescence
and tricklings of stillness
time before dawn.
See also: Hardboiled Detectives.
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