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Crime Syndicated (1951)

Crime Syndicated poster
Genre
anthology series
Country
United States
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This series reenacts real crime cases from the FBI and local police. A host introduces each episode. The show ran on CBS in the early 1950s.

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What happens

Crime Syndicated is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from September 18, 1951, to June 23, 1953. The program featured dramatizations of actual cases from the FBI and local law enforcement agencies. The series was hosted by Rudolph Halley, the Chief Counsel to the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, when he became president of the New York City Council in 1951, he alternated hosting with Maryland senator Herbert O'Conor. In March 1952, the series alternated with City Hospital. The program was sponsored by the Shick razor company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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