Category: Syndicated

EP2616: Boston Blackie: The Old ‘Eight-Six’ Disappears

Richard Kollmar

A train disappears and its crew is found murdered.

Original Air Date: September 24, 1947

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EP2614: That Strong Guy: Bottle of Death

A pharmacist turns to Steve Strong to find a bottle of cyanide that was inadvertently sold as a bottle of aspirin.

Original Air Date: Mid-1950s (probably 1955)

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EP2610: Boston Blackie: The Car Bomb Murder

Richard Kollmar

After the owner of a munitions factory threatens to murder a business rival, the rival’s friend is killed with a car bomb.

Original Air Date: September 17, 1947

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EP2608: That Strong Guy: The Temple of Horror

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Steve Strong stumbles into a murder in the country and is then tied up and held in hopes he can’t give evidence at the trial.

Original Air Date: Mid-1950s (probably 1955)

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EP2604: Boston Blackie: The Ghost of Rocky Island Lighthouse

Richard Kollmar

Four of Charlie Kingston’s ships crash near a lighthouse. He calls in Boston Blackie to investigate.

Original Air Date: September 10, 1947

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EP2598: Boston Blackie: The Fifty Dollar Shoeshine Murder

Richard Kollmar

To solve a gang murder, Blackie has to unravel a counterfeiting case

Original Air Date: September 3, 1947

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EP2592: Boston Blackie:The Buckley Shakedown Racket

Richard Kollmar

A new protection racket is in town and they threaten that if Blackie exposes them, they’ll accuse Mary of killing a man in her car while driving upstate.

Original Air Date: August 27, 1947

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EP2586: Boston Blackie: The John Austin Murder

Richard Kollmar

A wealthy man is murdered in an open field with no apparent clue has to how anyone could have committed the murder.

Original Air Date: August 20, 1947

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EP2574: Boston Blackie: The Butcher Mob

Richard Kollmar

Blackie sends an underworld figure to Farraday to provide a tip on the activities of the butcher mob. The figure is caught by the mob and sells Blackie out.

Original Air Date: August 6, 1947

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EP2568: Boston Blackie: Mayor Bob Rogers Assassinated

Richard Kollmar

Blackie and Farraday try to find out who murdered the mayor.

Original Air Date: July 30, 1947

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EP2562: Boston Blackie: Boston Blackie In Wax

Richard Kollmar

An artist makes a perfect wax statue of Boston Blackie, which plays into a plot of two local mobsters to protect their turf from a mob boss from the midwest.

Original Air Date: July 23, 1947

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EP2556: Boston Blackie: The Construction Gang Bank Robbery

Richard Kollmar

Blackie wakes up to the sound of drilling outside of his apartment and finds out that it’s a cover for a bank robbery.

Original Air Date: July 16, 1947

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EP2554: Manhunt: The Case of the Clue in the Column and the Clueless Crime

Larry Haines

Andrew Stevens investigates the unexplained the murder of two journalists.

Then, Stevens looks into the murder of a wealthy man where there seem to be no clues.

Original Air Dates: Sometime in 1944

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EP2550: Boston Blackie: The Harmonica Man Murder

Richard Kollmar

A harmonica-playing man tries to leave his girlfriend. She shoots him and he stumbles all the way to the house of her gangster ex-fiance.

Original Air Date: July 9, 1947

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EP2548: Air Mail Mystery Episodes 11-13

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Irene Delroy gets a shocking revelation regarding what happened to Andy Andrews, meanwhile her boyfriend Jimmy Gifford has flown into danger in pursuit of the gang.

Original Air Date: 1932

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