Photocrime is an American television crime drama that was broadcast on ABC[1] from September 28, 1949, until December 14, 1949.
[2] However, the concept of an illustrated mystery began with Denis Horton, an insurance clerk in England.
[2] In a review in the trade publication Billboard, Leon Morse wrote that the program's premiere episode "represented a measure of noticeable but not spectacular progress in bringing mysteries to the video screen.
"[7] An unsuccessful pilot episode of a program dramatizing material from the Photocrimes in Look was broadcast on CBS on October 2, 1945.
[1] In 1958, Teleworld, Inc., announced plans to produce a series of 5-minute television programs titled Photocrimes and based on the magazine feature of the same name.