Boston Blackie — 1945
38 episodes broadcast in 1945.
April 11, 1945
(untitled)
April 18, 1945
(untitled)
A thief posing as Blackie steals the Wentworth diamonds and kills two guards, and Farraday finds the gems in Blackie's own apartment.
Blackie and Shorty fish John Walters out of a lake wearing brand-new shoes, and the fine print on an insurance policy points to his killer.
Mary borrows Blackie's gun to face down a pestering ex-boyfriend; when the man dies in his burned home, Blackie plants a decoy threat to shield her, and Farraday isn't buying it.
Blackie is strong-armed into guarding a threatened millionaire who is shot dead inside a sealed room, leaving a houseful of resentful heirs as suspects.
May 23, 1945
(untitled)
May 30, 1945
(untitled)
A woman posing as Mrs. Boston Blackie blackmails a political candidate, Mary fears the romance is over, and Farraday pins a murder on Blackie that turns on a single sofa.
Mary talks a desperate young woman out of suicide and into her troubles with a bully named Oscar Wolfe.
Unable to get in to see Sam Bellows, Blackie tells Farraday he has murdered the man, only for Bellows to turn up genuinely dead with a knife in him.
Larry Brown owes Blackie a hundred dollars and is on the run, terrified for his life.
Blackie breaks it off with Mary as a ruse; when a vault crew grabs her, they make the worst mistake of their careers.
The Worthington pearls end up in Blackie's raincoat and a dead man in his apartment, and the jewels finally surface inside Farraday's own tobacco jar.
Blackie's car is used in the hit-and-run death of an heiress, and a fair-minded Farraday lets him run down whether her boyfriend, father, or brother is to blame.
A lavender letter lures Blackie after the $50,000 a dead gangster hid, just as three of the crook's ex-cellmates hit the street chasing the same money.
A shipboard business trip goes wrong when Blackie and Mary find a dead woman in Mary's cabin, and Farraday, as ever, likes Blackie for it.
Mary's old friend, a nightclub cigarette girl, is accused of murder, and Blackie's search for the truth leads to a hypnotist's act at the Boulevard Club.
A frightened woman drags Blackie to a house for protection and winds up dead, and the rooms seem to have changed when he returns with Farraday -- all but the jimmy scratch he left on the door.
A wealthy widow hires Blackie to break up her own tiara for charity, but rarer pearls vanish and her daughter-in-law is strangled, until a cat's paw fingers the killer.
August 27, 1945
(untitled)
September 3, 1945
(untitled)
A lawyer insists his client was framed for murder, but the case turns on forgery and a killer picking off the witnesses one by one.
A parking attendant spots blood on Blackie's sleeve just as a vengeful ex-con named Fred Arlen leaves jail and turns up murdered.
A crooked card game passes the Westfield diamond around town, and once a switchboard operator and another man are killed the stone goes missing entirely.
A man is accused of swapping a paste copy for a $25,000 diamond bracelet, and the imitation's maker holds the key.
A gambler pressures a boxing champ to throw a fight; when the champ wins and then dies in a fall, Farraday likes Blackie for the killing.
John Richards is murdered and his diamond stolen, Blackie is shot, and Mary's little dog Mutsie turns up the clue that cracks the case.
With Shorty jailed for a stickup Blackie doubts he pulled, Mary goes undercover at a suspect's family farm and vanishes, the family swearing she was never there.
A man surfacing from amnesia finds a corpse and hires Blackie to learn whether he himself is the killer.
Blackie pries a bank gang's hidden loot location from a jailed accomplice, then is snatched from his bed and dosed with truth serum while Shorty, Mary, and Farraday race to find him.
A foreman is shot on the 21st floor of a high-rise job; bedridden with laryngitis, Blackie predicts a second identical killing and solves both without leaving his room.
A departing handyman boasts of stealing his employers' $50,000 pearls, and an insurance man is murdered outside Blackie's door before Blackie recovers the necklace and names the killer.
Serving as a movie-set consultant, Blackie watches an actress shot dead inside a trunk during a take, then the prop man stabbed with Blackie's own knife.
A civic-forum panelist collapses from poison on live television just as he is about to make an accusation, and everyone at the table shared the same water pitcher.
Jewel thieves lift the Masters diamond at a dinner party where the hostess is then found dead, and the family heir soon turns up hanging from a chandelier.
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