Boston Blackie| Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Mystery Dramas
Boston Blackie was created by writer Jack Boyle as a jewel thief and safecracker with a heart of gold. The character was featured in nine silent films. In 1941, Blackie returned to film in the era of talkies. Much like the Saint, the character reformed from a thief into a detective. Blackie was always Inspector Farraday’s prime suspect in any major crime. The films were very popular with fourteen films made starring Chester Morris. Morris brought Blackie to the radio in a summer replacement radio series for NBC in 1944. Then in 1945, first-run syndication king Frederick Ziv created a new series starring Broadway Actor Richard Kollmar as Blackie and featuring the best talent in New York radio. The series was the most successful first-run syndication program of its era, producing 288 episodes of which at least 190 are in circulation.Ziv took the series to television in 1951 for two syndicated series featuring Kent Taylor as Blackie. Throughout his many iterations in the 1940s, Blackie remained a clever crime-solver whose past gave him a slight edge and made him a bit of a lovable rogue who fought on the side of the angels. He was the type of guy you wanted in your corner when the chips were down. “Enemy to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those who have no friend.” Host Adam Graham presents every circulating old time radio episode of Boston Blackie with episodes starring Chester Morris and later Richard Kollmar. This was originally presented as part of the Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio podcast.
Episodes
Blackie investigates the murder of a circus magician.
Original Air Date: April 14, 1948
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Blackie looks into the murder of a photographer.
Original Air Date: April 7, 1948
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A killer escapes prison, promising to kill Blackie. An enemy of Blackie’s who has been threatened kidnaps Blackie to protect him from the escaped killer.
Original Air Date: March 31, 1948
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A rookie wrestler is charged with manslaughter when his opponent dies in the ring, but Blackie suspected someone else committed murder.
Original Air Date: March 24, 1948
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A wealthy man who provides for his niece, nephew, and late father’s elderly servant (and lords it over them) is apparently murdered by men who were extorting him.
Original Air Date: March 17, 1948
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A man who works for Blackie’s friend Charlie Kingston is murdered en route to delivering $50,000 for Blackie to keep until morning.
Original Air Date: March 10, 1948
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A man turns to Blackie for help when the dead body of his business partner is found in the back of his car.
Original Air Date: March 3, 1948
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Blackie has to find out how a man committed two murders in two different places at Midnight while one of Blackie’s friends insist that he was with the man at the time of the murderer.
Original Air Date: February 25, 1948
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Blackie appears to have thrown Mary over for a woman he just met.
Original Air Date: February 4, 1948
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Blackie finds body, leaves the scene, and runs right into a policeman.
Original Air Date: February 18, 1948
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Three men are murdered while reading copies of the newest best-selling novel.
Original Air Date: February 11, 1948
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A boxer is shot to death in the ring.
Original Air Date: January 21, 1948
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An inventor is killed in his hotel room.
Original Air Date: January 14, 1948
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It looks like the owner of a riding stable was kicked in the head but Blackie thinks its murder
Original Air Date: January 7, 1948
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A man in Paris sends a friend to America with a door buzzer that he says will make them both rich.
Original Air Date: December 31, 1947
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Blackie goes to Mary’s apartment after sending her to spy on a gangster and finds another woman living there who claims not to know who Mary is.
Original Air Date: December 24, 1947
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A philanthropist named Henry Williams is killed and a gangster named Henry Williams suspects that he was the actual target and turns to Blackie for help.
Original Air Date: December 3, 1947
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Boston Blackies chases a thief who fled from a jewelry store with valuable rings, but when he catches him, the rings are gone.
Original Air Date: December 17, 1947
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With Farraday out of town and an ambitious replacement in charge, Blackie sets out to single-handedly break up the Murdoch gang.
Original Air Date: November 26, 1947
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An Armored Car carrying cash is robbed and its drivers killed.
Original Air Date: November 19, 1947
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