OTRR Certified Complete - A series that was "Certified Complete" achieved the highest level of certification available under the OTRR Certified Standards. OTRR Certified Accurate - A series that was "Certified Accurate" indicated that all the episodes were properly identified and labeled based on current information but that the series did not contain all known extant episodes. OTRR Non-Maintained Set - A collection of shows that has not gone through the OTRR Maintenance process. Replaces OTRR Certified Accurate and OTRR Certified Complete. OTRR Maintained Set - This set contains all known episodes in the best available audio condition with the most accurate dates and titles known to be in general circulation and based on current research at the time of release. If you are interested in preserving Old Time Radio (OTR), you may wish to join the Old Time Radio Researchers Group at Facebook and Groups.io. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to naming requirements.
This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. The Certified Set includes extras not found here. An updated version will be issued if more episodes or better sounding ones become available. It contains the most complete and accurate version of this series in the best sound possible at the time of creation. This is a production of the Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR) Group located at Old Time Radio Researchers Website (Old Time Radio Researchers Facebook Group, and Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR. Several dealer catalogs from that period list them for sale, stating 'dubbed from the original transcription disks'.įrom the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. It is generally believed that they were all recorded off the air by one collector as they were broadcast however, many episodes appear to have been circulating independently of one another in the early 1970s. Ninety-two episodes are in circulation for this series.
In supporting roles were Ken Lynch as Lt. Three actors played the Captain's role: Everett Sloane as Kennelly for the first 109 episodes and returned briefly in episode 135 James Gregory as Vincent Cronin for episode 109-144 and Les Damon as Thomas Keough starting in episode 145 through the remainder of the series. The Captain was the primary character and also acted as the narrator. It was mentioned in each episode's closing that, " 21st Precinct is presented with the official cooperation of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association an organization of more than 20,000 members of the Police Department, 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." The detail was made up of 160 patrolmen, eleven sergeants, and four lieutenants, under the command of one captain - Frank Kennelly. The 21st was described as "just lines on a map of the city of New York. The premise was to put the listener into the drama from the opening phone call until the final report was written.
CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for this series and to focus on the happenings in an actual police precinct. Broadcast from July 7th 1953 through November 1st 1956 on the CBS network.Ģ1st Precinct was a very dramatic police drama.