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 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...

Autumn has a good hold on Broadway…and the street gives in, stops fighting it…the fashion has changed…because night is colder…night is longer…For Detective Danny Clover, Broadway is more than just a street it’s a living, breathing creature with a mood and a style all its own. Radio’s most lyrical crime drama comes to life in this 8 CD collection of Broadway’s My Beat, featuring sixteen unique tales of murder along the main stem.The series’ purple prose is counterbalanced by the gritty real...