NOTE: the official title of the series according to the series scripts and the CBS series promotional package was 21st Precinct and not Twenty-First Precinct or Twenty First Precinct which appears in many Old-Time Radio books.
ABOUT THE SHOW: police drama-in the Dragnet mold, putting the listener into the drama from the opening phone call until the final report was written. The 21st was described as "just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the nine-tenths of a square mile between Fifth Avenue and the East River wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st."
FIRST BROADCAST:July 7, 1953
LAST BROADCAST: July 26, 1956
SPONSORS: CBS
CAST:Everett Sloane, James Gregory (1955), and Les Damon (1956) as Capt. Frank Kennelly. Ken Lynch as Lt. Matt King. Harold Stone as Sgt. Waters.
