Adam Graham

And I think it was meant to draw a dramatic image based on the idea that people had about Utah.

This happened in a close-knit community that's very wholesome where everybody knows everybody else's name.

That's the sort of image that Utah evoked at the time.

And so that was the word picture being drawn for the rest of the country, even though it didn't make much sense the way that it was stated in the episode.

Now we turn to listener comments and feedback.

And we start with an email from Derek who writes on the latest big story.

You mentioned programs based on real events, uh, including the big story tales of the Texas Rangers, dragnets, and also the silent man.

First question.

Are there any others you can think of?

And second question, can you rank them in your opinion who gets it closest to the most accurate, uh, and to the least accurate?

Well,

I did find a list.

There are some shows that are listed that I probably wouldn't include, but the ones I would include, I couldn't think of any that were not on this list.

Calling All Cars, which was a program from the 30s that dramatized true police cases.

The FBI in Peace and War, and This Is Your FBI, both of which dramatized cases from the F

FBI, True Detective Mysteries, which was based on stories from true crime magazines, and then there was Unsolved Mysteries.

Not to be confused with the later Robert Stack program.

We've played a couple episodes on the old-time radio Snack Wagon.

Then Tales of the Texas Rangers, Nightwatch, 21st Precinct, True Adventures of the Junior G-Men, and I would also add Gangbusters and Unit 99.

I think you kind of have to take Unit 99 and Nightwatch as being a very separate thing.