Boston Blackie — 1946
53 episodes broadcast in 1946.
Blackie and Mary take in a carnival where the sword swallower is murdered, a suspect turns up dead, and the bearded lady proves to be a man.
January 8, 1946
Harlin Escapes
January 15, 1946
(untitled)
Blackie warns Mary not to look behind his dining-room doors, where a body lies -- but by the time Farraday searches, the corpse is gone and a stolen pearl necklace turns up in the safe.
A witness who swore he saw a man murder his wife recants on the stand, claiming Farraday beat the lie out of him, and the D.A. gives the inspector 48 hours -- so Farraday turns to Blackie for help.
Strangers keep mistaking Blackie for a Mr. Peterkin, and after a jeweler insists on the same odd name and is then found dead, Blackie must unravel the reason for the ruse.
A husband begs Blackie to deliver a $50,000 kidnap ransom for his wife -- so Blackie leaves the kidnappers a note and keeps the cash.
A man acquitted of shooting his wife can't be tried again, but her brother asks Blackie and Farraday to dig up the evidence that would have convicted him.
Blackie outbids a man in a green hat for a vase Mary wants, and when a wounded messenger dies delivering it, fingerprints expose the bidder as a bank robber.
A man boasts he will kill Thomas Evers and beat any proof, and pulls off a seemingly perfect murder from 25 miles away that only Blackie can crack.
A colorblind woman warns Blackie away from Lee Chow's, and when he goes anyway he finds the owner murdered and himself framed as the only patron.
Shorty brings a hysterical maid claiming to have seen a ghost to Blackie; when she turns up dead and a famous pianist reports her own ghost, Farraday is left tied in knots.
A fashion designer confesses to Blackie that he is really a con man, and after a $25,000 safe robbery and the designer's murder, Blackie hunts the real killer.
A woman phones Blackie to say she is about to be killed, and by the time he races to the rescue she is already dead.
A rookie ballplayer's brother is buried in gambling debt, and a killing pins evidence on Blackie as a gambler schemes to force the star to throw games.
Mary's stolen car is disguised with a swapped engine and resold; when the mechanic who did the work is shot by his boss, Blackie and Farraday trace the ring.
Farraday accuses a psychiatrist of murdering his patient, Frances Fielding, but Blackie believes the doctor is framed, with the victim's brother and a damning diary in the mix.
Hired to solve diamonds vanishing daily from a jewelry firm's 12th floor despite searches of every worker, Blackie goes undercover as the case turns deadly.
Blackie and Mary find a millionaire dead on a park merry-go-round, and when the carousel's owner is killed on his own ride, the victim's widow and her lawyer draw scrutiny.
A pawnbroker entrusts Blackie with a possibly stolen diamond, then is shot, and a tip places Blackie at the scene -- but for once Farraday takes him at his word.
An escaped convict Blackie sent up heads straight for his apartment, and the trail leads Blackie to a waterfront dive where the man's daughter has fallen in with a gang.
An old man's death by apparent heart failure looks like murder to his granddaughter, while Farraday juggles three near-identical killings across town -- and a dentist supplies the answer.
A killer hands off his gun for safekeeping; Blackie steals it back and airmails it to Farraday, then boards a plane out of Boston that vanishes with Blackie its only passenger.
An extortion gang terrorizes shopkeepers, so Blackie tails a collector to a fatal crash and uses a motel key to impersonate the dead man at the Hooded Gang's next meeting.
A dying eccentric mails his three heirs broken flagstones and promises to pay whoever brings one in; the first to try is murdered, and Blackie hurries to find the killer.
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