Chicagoland Mystery Players, a police procedural, was "television's first crime series".
[1] The series was one of several on DuMont that began in a local TV market before being picked up nationally.
Instead they were told that they could find the solution in the next day's Chicago Tribune,[2] the newspaper that sponsored the program.
[6] Gordon Urquhart portrayed police officer Jeffrey Hall, who examined each crime scene, questioned witnesses, and interrogated suspects.
[citation needed] Chris Raczkowski, in the book A History of American Crime Fiction, wrote that dramatizations on the program "were presented with as much of an air of realism as possible".