Crime

The Big Story

The Thirteenth Key (James Fusco)
25mins Aired 1947-06-04
Counterfeit Coins (Jack Adams)
30mins Aired 1947-10-01
The Bobby-Sox Kid from Bayonne (Dorothy Kilgallen)
29mins Aired 1947-10-15
Unfinished Love Song (Howard Beaufait)
29mins Aired 1947-11-26
Final Curtain (Aubrey Maddock)
30mins Aired 1947-12-10
Ambitious Hobo (Russell Wilson)
30mins Aired 1947-12-17
Manhunt in Manhattan (Ted Prager)
30mins Aired 1948-01-07
Pillars of Society (William Miller)
30mins Aired 1948-05-05
Lucky Longshot (Robert Early)
15mins Aired 1948-05-12
The Deadline Murder (Rolf K Mills)
30mins Aired 1948-05-19
The Hate Between a Brother and a Sister (A B Hendry)
16mins Aired 1948-06-30
The Woman Who Was a Witch (George Cleveland Bullette)
14mins Aired 1948-07-07
The Lottery Racket (Keeler McCartney)
29mins Aired 1948-07-21
Murderous Kid (Al Aaronson)
30mins Aired 1949-01-05
Jig Saw (Joseph Wirges)
28mins Aired 1949-01-26
Respected Chemist Dead (Ike McAnally)
30mins Aired 1949-03-09
The Bitterest Man On the Earth (Julian C Houseman)
30mins Aired 1949-06-08
The Poison Pen Murders (Tom Mercer)
25mins Aired 1949-07-20
The Loneliest Man On Earth (Ray Sprigle)
28mins Aired 1949-10-12
Three Golden Coins (Nolan Bullock)
25mins Aired 1949-12-14
Murder and a Frustrated Father (Sam Melnick)
26mins Aired 1950-01-04
Gambling, Divorce, and Murder (Frank McCulloch)
26mins Aired 1950-01-11
Twenty Six Years to Explode Frame-Up (Ralph Goll)
25mins Aired 1950-03-01
Death In the Family (William Noble)
26mins Aired 1950-06-21
Hunch That Paid Off (Bill Griffith)
26mins Aired 1950-07-12
Puritan Morality and Violent Death (Albert I Prince)
26mins Aired 1950-10-18
Bobby Soxer Story (Paul Schoenstein)
24mins Aired 1950-11-08
A Dead Certainty (Kenneth McCormick)
26mins Aired 1950-11-15
Triple Murder (T R Johnson)
23mins Aired 1950-11-29
Paul Grays Missing Wife (Bernard Beckwith)
27mins Aired 1950-12-06
Poker Game Ends In Death (William E Doherty)
24mins Aired 1951-04-04
Wife Poisoned (Bus Bergen)
24mins Aired 1951-07-25
Friendly Betrayal (Alan Cowperthwaite)
29mins Aired 1952-03-19
Body Found On Tamiami Trail (William H Adams)
25mins Aired 1952-10-08
The Three Gangsters (Don Morrisey)
25mins Aired 1953-02-04
Too Terrible to Be Believed (Arthur Mielke)
27mins Aired 1954-01-27
A Witness to Violence and Death (John Cahlan)
25mins Aired 1954-03-24
The Deadly Sound of Laughing (Sid Hughes)
26mins Aired 1954-10-20

The Big Story was an American radio crime drama that aired between April 2, 1947, and March 23, 1955, on NBC. The show dramatized real-life stories of newspaper reporters and their heroic deeds. Sponsored by Pall Mall cigarettes, each episode featured a different reporter, with the only continuing character being the narrator, Bob Sloane. The series was produced by Bernard J. Prockter, with scripts by Gail Ingram, Arnold Pearl, and Max Ehrlich. Tom Vietor and Harry Ingram directed the show.

The show's unique format awarded the real news reporter whose story was featured on each episode with $500 and an on-air interview. During its run, The Big Story was a major success, at times surpassing the ratings of Bing Crosby's Philco Radio Time. The show's theme music was derived from Ein Heldenleben ("A Hero's Life"), a tone poem by Richard Strauss.