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Crime Classics

Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was "A series of true crime stories from the records and newpapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, is Mr. Thomas Hyland- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland is played by Lou Merrill.

Thomas Hyland's delivery is measured and mild-mannered, as if giving a college lecture. Would that all professors were this interesting! The actors in the stories themselves are uniformly. Sensitive orchestral scores by the great Bernard Hermann, who did Orson Welles' Mercury Theater radio show and then Alfred Hitchcock's films, give the stories sophistication and mood. So do the tasteful sound effects.

Cases ranged from seventeenth-century murder to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Each and every story, however bizarre, is actually based on fact. For example, the show on the Younger Brothers of the American West has some very interesting background details concerning Quantrell's Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks. In the story of "John Hayes, his Head, and How They Were Parted," we hear the tale of a glassblower who blows glass perfectly and completely surrounding the severed head of a unknown deadman. Then it is placed in a museum where it remained pending identification.

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A Generals Daughter - 04/07/1954

Ali Pasha - 06/23/1954

Alsop Family - 08/24/1953

Assasination of Abraham Lincoln - 12/09/1953

Assasination of Leon Trotsky - 06/09/1954

Axe and the Droot Family - 08/20/1953

Billy Bonny Bloodletter - 10/21/1953

Blackbeards Fourteenth Wife - 11/11/1953

Bloody Banks of Fall River - 09/30/1953

Boorn Brothers and the Hangman - 01/27/1954

Bunny Baumler - 05/05/1954

Cesare Borgia - 04/21/1954

Checkerd Life. . . Colonel James Fisk - 06/29/1953

Coyle and Richardson - 12/30/1953

Crime of Bathsheba Spooner - 06/15/1953

Death of a Baltimore Birdie - 06/16/1954

Death of a Picture Hanger - 07/20/1953

Final Day of General Ketchum - 07/27/1953

Good Ship Jane - 02/24/1954

Hangman and William Palmer - 10/07/1953

How Supan got the Hook - 01/13/1954

If a Body needs a Body - 12/02/1953

Incredible History of John Shepard - 02/03/1954

Incredible Trail of Laura D Fair - 08/17/1953

James Evans Fireman - 04/14/1954

Jean Baptiste Troppman - 02/17/1954

John and Judith - 12/16/1953

John Hayes - 10/28/1953

Killing Story of William Corder - 11/25/1953

Lethal Habit of Marquise de Brinvilliers - 05/26/1954

Madeline Smith Maid or Murderess - 01/20/1954

Mr. Clarkes Skeleton - 05/12/1954

Mr. Jonathon Jewtt - 06/02/1954

Mr. Throwers Hammer - 08/03/1953

My Name is Jack the Ripper - 06/30/1954

Old Sixtoes - 03/17/1954

Raschi among the Crocodiles - 11/04/1953

Robby Boy Balfour - 03/31/1954

Roger Nems - 03/03/1954

Seven Layered Arsenic Cake - 10/14/1953

Shockingly. . .Thomas Edwin Bartlett - 06/22/1953

Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew - 07/06/1953

Terrible Deed of John White Webster - 07/13/1953

Tiger and Brad Ferguson - 03/10/1954

Twentythree Knives against Caesar - 02/10/1954

Torment of Henrietta Robinson - 09/07/1953

Triangle on the Round Table - 11/18/1953

Widow Magee - 04/28/1954

Younger Brothers - 01/06/1954

Your Loving Son Nero - 08/31/1953

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