Stand By for Crime

{{Short description|American TV police drama}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| genre = Crime drama

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| starring = Boris Aplon
Myron (Mike) Wallace
George Cisar

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| country = United States

| language = English

| num_seasons = 1

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| camera = Single-camera

| runtime = 30 minutes

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| channel = ABC

| first_aired = {{start date|1949|1|11}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1949|8|27}}

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Stand By for Crime is an American television police drama that aired on ABC on Saturday nights from January 11 to August 27, 1949.{{cite book |last1=Hyatt |first1=Wesley |title=Short-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops |date=October 6, 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0515-9 |pages=10–11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ty21CgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Stand+By+for+Crime%22&pg=PA10 |access-date=February 12, 2023 |language=en}} The series stars veteran newsman Mike Wallace under his real name, Myron Wallace.{{cite book|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present|year=2003|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0-345-45542-8|pages=1116}} The series is notable for being the first program to be transmitted from Chicago to New York City. It was ABC's component when each network presented 15 minutes of its programming on January 11, 1949, when the Bell System opened its coaxial cable linking TV's Midwestern and Eastern networks.{{cite news |title=East, Midwest join in television net |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/01/12/archives/east-midwest-join-in-television-net-link-by-cable-extends-service.html |access-date=February 12, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=January 12, 1949 |page=23|url-access=subscription }}