"You walk the pavement, spangled with a thousand colors, but between the light…that's where the darkness is. It's Broadway…my beat."Larry Thor, a staff announcer turned actor with an expressive and powerful voice, played the role of Detective Danny Clover. His beat was Broadway, and each week he narrated a new tale of nighttime drama along the Great White Way.Writers Morton Fine and David Friedkin delivered scripts of elegant intricacy that turned routine description into near poetry. Thre...

“From Times Square to Columbus Circle the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.”NYPD detective Danny Clover, poignantly portrayed by Larry Thor, patrols The Great White Way. With each block he bears witness to regret and redemption, to desperation and debauchery, to wealth and want. Each leaves its mark on this poetic policeman. At Clover’s side, and covering his back, are Sgt. Tartaglia (Charles Calvert) and Sgt. Muggavan (Jack Kruschen).The unhappy endings of hard...

Welcome to Broadway! Your tour guide: homicide detective Danny Clover (Larry Thor). He holds his exhaustion in check, knowing full well that his dangerous dealings with the underbelly of the Great White Way will begin again come the dawn. Supported by his colleagues—the paternal, precinct-based Sergeant Gino Tartaglia (Charles Calvert) and field investigator Detective Muggavan (Jack Kruschen)—Clover's work takes him to the Bronx, Spanish Harlem, Central Park, the Chelsea docks, Greenwich V...

"You can afford to laugh at murder as a long as you're safely a century or so away from it... the killers we make fun of are good and dead. If they weren't, we know a pair of writers who would be." - Fine and FriedkinDo you like mystery, tension, suspense? Are you fascinated by the twists and turns of the criminal mind? Well, Thomas Hyland (portrayed by Lou Merrill) has something for you -- twenty Crime Classics, narrated by that "connoissieur of crime" himself.These sinister plots, with p...