Boston Blackie — 1948
52 episodes broadcast in 1948.
A jealous stable owner who threatened a mystery writer is himself found dead by a horse's stall, and while Farraday blames the horse, Blackie sifts three suspects to prove murder.
An inventor is shot in a secret hotel room before Blackie can review his plans, and a rubber plant reveals how the killer found the room -- so Blackie disguises himself as an old man to solve it.
A boxer is shot dead in the first round, and with a gambler and a thieving manager both in the frame, his girlfriend asks Blackie to find the killer.
A disc jockey keeps getting odd record requests whose titles and times signal crimes to come, in an episode featuring a guest turn by bandleader Guy Lombardo.
Mary catches Blackie in an apparent affair with Helen Carver, who is really working for a crook and wants Blackie to crack a safe and destroy some papers.
Readers of a hit novel are being murdered while the pseudonymous author is shaken down, and a rival who knows his secret and an Alaska-expedition disappearance figure in it.
A deputy inspector sees Blackie flee a murdered man's house gun in hand, leaving Blackie to build his defense from three clues: a flattened nail, a homburg hat, and five shots.
A man shoots his wife and, apparently at the same moment with the same gun, a man twenty miles away, giving himself an airtight alibi -- until Blackie figures out the trick.
A trucking-line owner is murdered and his partner charged, but behind it all is a girlfriend's greed for a mink coat.
A man is killed before he can drop $50,000 at Blackie's, and the trail leads to a racket that smuggles wanted hoods out of town.
A widely hated man is shot for refusing to keep paying blackmail, and Blackie makes himself the killer's next target by claiming to know who did it.
A wrestler idolizing Blackie wants to meet him against his crooked manager's wishes, and the dirty game he's caught in turns deadly.
An escaped killer comes gunning for Blackie, and a man who hates Blackie even more kidnaps him to keep from being blamed for the revenge.
A photographer is shot dead in his studio and the shotgun turns up in a suspect's car, but the real puzzle is how the weapon was smuggled in and out.
An escape-artist magician drowns when his rope breaks at the circus, and thrown knives -- and a knife-practicing suspect -- suggest the accident was murder.
Two swindlers running an auto-insurance racket turn to murder when one of their marks refuses to play along.
A man is killed by a bomb thrown through his window, and the bombers, with a witness to silence, build a second bomb meant for Blackie.
The Bolo gang breaks out of prison using a hidden way of signaling the inmates, and Blackie must crack the communication trick -- and a taunting con's silly song -- to stop them.
May 12, 1948
The Case of the False Confession
The police are certain they know who committed a murder, until another man confesses to it and Blackie refuses to believe him.
May 19, 1948
The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Dead
A man written off as dead in a gang war ten years earlier is identified by both the police and Blackie as a traffic-accident victim.
May 26, 1948
The Five Cent Murder Case
A man appears to have been murdered over a single nickel -- a counterfeit that, had it been genuine, would have been worth a fortune to collectors.
June 2, 1948
Murder at the Race Track
A harness racer keeps losing when his horses break stride, and after the driver is murdered Blackie steps in.
June 9, 1948
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June 16, 1948
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A man is shot outside his home with a gun a city councilman reported stolen, and the killers race to silence the victim's wife before Blackie and Farraday can reach her.
A professor punctual for thirty years is late to class because he's been murdered, and Blackie returns to his old college to sort a rival, a missing student, and a recruited athlete.
Blackie and his friend Charlie Kingston are robbed of diamonds by three thugs, one of whom is killed by another over the split, and Blackie tricks the survivors into betraying their alibi.
Blackie is framed for the murder of John Cummings, and Farraday keeps him locked up to lull the real killer.
A crook has an informer killed by a hitman who resembles movie star George Allen, so Blackie enlists the star to help catch his double and break a counterfeit-ticket racket.
A cabbie watches a fare walk into a vacant lot and vanish, and when a strangled man turns up with strange papers on him, the lot holds the answer.
A man goads Blackie into knocking him down, then kills two brothers and names Blackie as his alibi, leaving Blackie to prove the impossible five-minute trip that breaks it.
A man is three hours from execution for killing his wife, and Blackie's race to find an alibi witness nearly gets the sentencing judge killed too.
A door-to-door salesman leaves a deadly package and a housemaid dies in her employer's place, so Blackie starts making deliveries of his own to hand Farraday a killer.
A man poisons his wife by phone as she takes what she thinks is medicine, and his razor-blade alibi collapses when Blackie notes he uses an electric shaver.
A joke about buying Mary a dime necklace is taken as a fence's code, drawing Blackie into a stolen-goods ring whose boss unknowingly employs one of his own victims' wives.
A millionaire buys a fifteen-story office building that has vanished into an empty lot by the next morning, and Blackie recovers the building and solves a murder besides.
September 15, 1948
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September 22, 1948
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A woman flirts with her golf instructor, and her jealous husband sets out to teach the man a lesson.
A man is offered $50,000 for a single one-dollar bill.
October 13, 1948
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A hit-and-run at the docks is finished off by a fake ambulance crew.
October 20, 1948
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October 27, 1948
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November 3, 1948
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November 10, 1948
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November 17, 1948
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November 24, 1948
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December 1, 1948
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A man and the victim's wife stage a perfect murder by lightning in a meadow, but a missing lab lightning rod tips off an assistant who then dies too.
December 15, 1948
Too Late Jailbreak
A man breaks out of jail to kill his target, only to arrive a little too late.
Blackie and Farraday nab a jewel-store thief with no loot on him, and Blackie -- realizing the rings were tossed into a sidewalk Santa's bucket -- goes undercover as Santa Claus to recover them.
December 29, 1948
(untitled)
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