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Boston Blackie presents “Invention Worth Killing For,” originally broadcast January 14, 1948. Episode 157 of the Richard Kollmar-led syndicated series finds Blackie drawn into a dangerous case involving an inventor’s closely guarded plans.

At Charlie Kingston’s request, Blackie heads to a hotel to examine Roger Harrison’s work—but the inventor is attacked before Blackie can reach him. With Mary Wesley and Inspector Farraday in the orbit of the investigation, Blackie follows a curious clue: a rubber plant that may hold the key to the case.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:54 Original Broadcast
23:01 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Blackie’s Car Kills a Woman” (Episode 28), originally broadcast July 16, 1945. In this syndicated Frederic W. Ziv Company production, Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday and Lesley Woods as Mary.

When Blackie’s car is implicated in a fatal hit-and-run involving wealthy heiress Carolyn Forbes, Inspector Farraday lets him investigate. Blackie and Mary enter the Forbes family circle, where Carolyn’s boyfriend and relatives all give the detective reason to look closer.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
27:12 Closing

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Boston Blackie presents “Granny’s Witchcraft,” originally broadcast October 29, 1946. Cataloged as episode 94, this Halloween-season mystery stars Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie, with Jan Miner as Mary Wesley.

At a costume party, an elderly woman called Granny warns Blackie of danger involving a chandelier and a large blue limousine. When her ominous clues begin to take shape, Blackie and Mary investigate amid the shadow of a $25,000 safe robbery and the return of Blackie’s old adversary, Joe Hanson.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
26:54 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “The Randolph Construction Gang Bank Robbery,” originally broadcast July 16, 1947, is episode 131. Dick Kollmar stars as the resourceful Boston Blackie, with Lesley Woods as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

After a robbery at the Parkway Bank, Blackie and Mary investigate a seemingly legitimate street-construction crew working nearby. Pavement work, suspicious clues, and a wounded bank guard point to a dangerous scheme that may be hidden in plain sight.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
28:03 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Sam Fisher’s Past,” originally broadcast March 18, 1947, is supplied as episode 114. This Mutual Broadcasting System mystery stars Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie, with Jan Minor as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

When Sam Fisher—whose memory was erased in an accident ten years earlier—finds himself drawn toward a life he cannot remember, Blackie investigates the unsettling questions surrounding Fisher’s identity and the secrets buried in his lost past. The episode is also cataloged under the alternate title “I Am Not Sam Fisher.”

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:36 Original Broadcast
27:47 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Old 86 Is Missing,” originally broadcast September 24, 1947, is episode 141 of the classic detective series. Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Jan Miner as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

When the four-car freight train known as Old 86 leaves the terminal on schedule but never reaches the next signal station, the mystery deepens quickly. Its crew is found back at the terminal—three unconscious and the engineer dead—while a shipment of uncut diamonds and the train itself have seemingly vanished along a closely watched railroad route.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:39 Original Broadcast
26:26 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Reynolds and the Stolen Goods,” originally broadcast September 1, 1948, is episode 190 of the syndicated detective series starring Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie. Maurice Tarplin appears as Inspector Farraday.

While shopping for a gift, Blackie makes a joking remark that John Reynolds takes as underworld code. A suspicious offer of stolen jewelry draws Blackie into a dangerous fencing operation, where a seemingly easy bargain points toward murder and a larger criminal racket.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
23:32 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Charity Gambling Ring,” originally broadcast March 23, 1949, is episode 219. Richard Kollmar stars as the resourceful former jewel thief turned detective.

When a charity event conceals a crooked roulette operation, Blackie follows the trail from a pressured henchman to the polished underworld figure known as Fancy Dan Carpenter. A suspicious interest in perfume and a clue hidden in the rigged roulette wheels give Blackie a dangerous new angle on the racket.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
26:40 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Uncle Bill Blaine’s Legacy” (episode 19), originally broadcast May 16, 1945. This Richard Kollmar-led installment is also known under alternate titles including “William Blaine Case.”

When wealthy William Blaine receives anonymous death threats, he pressures Boston Blackie into becoming his bodyguard—only for danger to close in at the Blaine family home. With Inspector Farraday watching closely and resentful relatives nearby, Blackie confronts a tense locked-room mystery. Jan Miner co-stars as Mary Wesley, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
27:16 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Mary Asks Blackie to Get Her Cousin’s Song Published,” originally broadcast February 2, 1949, is episode 212. Richard Kollmar stars as Blackie, with Jan Miner as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

Mary’s request that Blackie help her cousin place a song with publisher Joe Hendricks draws him into the competitive world of commercial songwriting. When one member of Hendricks’ songwriting team is found shot, Blackie and Farraday investigate a case also circulated under the collector titles “Tin Pan Alley Murder” and “Murder in the Music Room.”

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:09 Closing

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