The Damon Runyon Theater
The Bloodhounds of Broadway
by Damon Runyon
The Damon Runyon Theater brings the colorful world of New York as imagined by writer Damon Runyon to radio. Its stories center on gamblers, hustlers, performers, and other vivid characters navigating the city’s underworld and theatrical districts, where loyalty, luck, and a distinctive sense of honor often shape what happens.
Each broadcast presents a dramatized story drawn from Runyon’s fiction, with dialogue and narration carrying listeners through a world of sharp exchanges and larger-than-life personalities. The series is known for adapting his stories into self-contained radio plays, giving the characters’ slang-rich voices and streetwise outlook a central place in the performance.
The result blends crime-story tension with humor and affection for its unconventional characters. Runyon’s distinctive language and lively portraits of Broadway life give the program a warm, theatrical character, balancing the rough edges of its settings with wit and humanity.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.