“Crime Classics is a United States radio docudrama which aired as a sustaining series over CBS Radio from June 15, 1953, to June 30, 1954.
Created, produced, and directed by radio actor and director Elliott Lewis, the program was a historical true crime series, examining crimes and murders from the past. It grew out of Lewis' personal interest in famous murder cases and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recreating the facts, personages and feel of the time period. Comparatively little dramatic license was taken with the facts and events, but the tragedy was leavened with humor, expressed largely through the narration.
The crimes dramatized generally covered a broad time and place frame from ancient Greece to late 19th-century America. Each episode in the series was co-written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, in consultation with Lewis, although the scripting process was more a matter of research, as the stories were "adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts" or from the works of historians.” From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Classics
Shows:
The Crime Of Bathsheba Spooner (aud)
Crime Of Bathsheba Spooner
The Shockingly Peaceful Passing of Thomas Edwin Bartlett
The Checkered Life & Sudden Death of Colonel James Fisk
The Shrapnelled Body Of Charles Drew, Senior
The Terrible Deed of John White Webster
The Death Of A Picture Hanger
The Final Day Of General Ketchum and How He Died
Mr Thrower's Hammer
The Axe and The Droot Family - How They Fared
The Incredible Trial Of Laura D Fair
The Alsop Family - How It Diminished And Grew Again
Your Loving Son, Nero
The Torment Of Henrietta Robinson and Why She Killed
The Bloody, Bloody Banks Of Fall River
The Hangman and William Palmer - Who Won?
The Seven Layered Arsenic Cake Of Madame Lafarge
Billy Bonney, Bloodletter - Also Known As The Kid
John Hayes - His Head and How They Were Parted.
Raschi Among The Crocodiles and The Prank He Played
Blackbeard's Fourteenth Wife - Why She Was No Good For Him
The Triangle On The Round Table
The Killing Story Of William Corder and The Farmer's Daughter
If A Body Need A Body, Just Call Burke and Hare
The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
John and Judith - Their Crime and Why They Didn't Get To Enjoy It
Coyle and Richardson - Why They Hung In A Spanking Breeze
The Younger Brothers and Why Some Of Them Grew No Older
How Supan Got The Hook Outside Bombay
Madeline Smith, Maid Or Murderess
The Boorn Brothers & The Hangman
The Incredible History Of John Shepard
Twenty-three Knives Against Caesar
Jean Baptiste Troppmann
The Good Ship Jane
Roger Nems
The Tiger & Brad Ferguson
Old Sixtoes
Robby-Boy Balfour
A General's The General's Daughter, The Czar's Lieutenant & The Linen Closet
James Evans, Fireman
Cesare Borgia - His Most Difficult Murder
Widow Magee & The Three Gypsies
Bunny Baumler - His Close Brush with Fame
Mr Clarke's Skeleton In Mr Aram's Closet
The Lethal Habit of Marquise De Brinvilliers
Mr Jonathon Jewett
The Assassination Of Leon Trotsky
The Death Of A Baltimore Birdie & Friend
Ali Pasha - A Turkish Delight
Good Evening, My Name Is Jack The Ripper
