Boston Blackie is pulled into a black market meat smuggling ring when thugs threaten him to join their operation. Meanwhile, a legitimate cattle rancher named Miss Parker seeks his help getting her trucks through to customers, revealing that the same black market gang has been hijacking her shipments. Blackie decides to fight the black market operation.

With Boston Blackie, Shorty, Steve, Miss Parker, Inspector Faraday, Matthew.

Listen for: The clash between Blackie's forced involvement in the black market scheme and his decision to help an honest rancher fight the same gang; his interactions with the skeptical Inspector Faraday.

First aired July 21, 1944.

Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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Boston Blackie is arrested when blood-stained coat bearing his label is found, connecting him to the murder of Andrew Lawrence, caretaker of the Devon estate. Blackie escapes and investigates, discovering the hat check girl who switched the coat labels has been killed, forcing him to seek answers at the Devon estate itself.

With Boston Blackie, Inspector Faraday, Shorty, Mary, Miss Morrison, Jerry, Andrew Lawrence.

Listen for: Blackie's escape from Inspector Faraday and his investigation into the switched coat and the murdered hat check girl; mysterious disturbances at the Devon estate

First aired July 28, 1944.

Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

Two new episodes a week. Live around the clock: Boston Blackie on Stupid Potato

About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

Boston Blackie is asked to meet and look after Alice Manleder, a young woman arriving in New York from San Francisco. When Blackie arrives at the hotel, he discovers that someone else has already met Alice and taken her away. Shortly after, Blackie finds Alice dead in her hotel room—and the murder weapon is his own gun, which he lost. Inspector Faraday arrives and arrests Blackie as the prime suspect, but Blackie escapes custody to prove his innocence and find the real Alice.

With Boston Blackie, Inspector Faraday, Alice Manleder, Shorty, Arthur Manleder, Otto, Dr. Cink, Joe.

Listen for: A spy ring operating in wartime New York, a coded message hidden in a girl's handbag, and Blackie's race against time to stop a Nazi convoy from sailing while clearing his name for a murder he didn't commit.

First aired August 4, 1944.

Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

Two new episodes a week. Live around the clock: Boston Blackie on Stupid Potato

About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.