Gangbusters is an American radio crime drama that ran on various networks from 1935 to 1957, dramatizing cases drawn from real police files and produced with the cooperation of law enforcement agencies, opening each episode with a loud montage of sirens, marching feet and gunfire before the story began. Its noisy, high energy opening became famous enough in American popular culture that the phrase coming on like gangbusters entered everyday speech to describe someone arriving with sudden, overwhelming force or energy. It is remembered by radio historians as one of the most commercially successful and influential crime dramas of American network radio's golden age.
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Source Gang Busters (Wikipedia)
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- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, originated there.
- Also in Language Atlas: English, original language there.
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1. Gang Busters (Wikipedia)
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January 15, 1936
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United States
Gangbusters, Description, original language
Gangbusters is an American radio crime drama that ran on various networks from 1935 to 1957, dramatizing cases drawn from real police files and produced with the cooperation of law enforcement agencies, opening each episode with a loud montage of sirens, marching feet and gunfire before the story began.
In Medium: Radio, Article lead sentence
Gang Busters is an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered on January 15, 1936 and was broadcast for more 21 years through November 27, 1957.
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