Boston Blackie, “The Skating Rink Murders,” originally broadcast July 9, 1946, is episode 78 of the classic crime series. Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Lesley Woods as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

An evening of roller-skating takes a deadly turn when Blackie and Mary are drawn to the strangling of a woman named Jane Carter. A $50,000 diamond ring found on the victim opens a baffling trail of identities and motives for Blackie to follow.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
30:35 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Hypnotic Murder,” originally broadcast August 6, 1945, is episode 31 of the Richard Kollmar-era detective series. Kollmar stars as Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday and Lesley Woods as Mary.

When cigarette girl Joan Thompson is implicated in the murder of Henry Bradson, an apparent confession and a gun found in Blackie’s possession draw both Joan and Blackie under suspicion. Blackie and Mary trace the case from Joan’s home to the Boulevard Club, where a hypnotist’s nightclub act may hold an important clue.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
27:33 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Professor Beasley Is Murdered,” originally broadcast June 30, 1948, is episode 181. Richard Kollmar stars as the resourceful detective, with Lesley Woods as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

When Professor Beasley, Daniels College’s longtime history department head, fails to appear for class, Blackie returns to his old school to investigate. Faculty rivalries, student testimony, and conflicting campus clues complicate the case as Inspector Farraday and Mary Wesley lend a hand.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
29:42 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Joe Gates Murdered on Sightseeing Tour,” originally broadcast May 4, 1949, is episode 225 of the Mutual network crime series. Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.

A Chinatown sightseeing excursion takes a deadly turn when a murder is discovered aboard the bus. As Blackie and Mary Wesley follow a trail from the tour route to an auction house, clues involving blood and green paint point to a larger mystery—while Inspector Faraday pursues the case from his own angle.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
28:57 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Uncle Frank Murdered by Joe Parker,” originally broadcast July 2, 1946, is episode 77 of the Richard Kollmar syndicated series. Kollmar stars as the quick-witted Boston Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday and Jan Miner as Mary Wesley.

When Uncle Frank Miller is killed, Inspector Farraday looks to Joe Parker—but Parker appears protected by an airtight alibi involving a day spent repairing pipes at Aunt Margaret’s apartment. Blackie investigates the troubling discrepancy behind the story in this tense domestic mystery from Frederic W. Ziv’s half-hour syndicated production.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
27:26 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Murder of John Austin” (episode 136), originally broadcast August 20, 1947. Richard Kollmar stars as the resourceful Boston Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.

When wealthy John Austin is found murdered in the middle of an open field on his estate, the scene presents an apparently impossible crime: no killer could have crossed the exposed ground unnoticed. As Blackie and Faraday investigate, Austin’s family and a flyer who had quarreled with him become central to the mystery. Also known as “Open Field Case,” this Mutual Broadcasting System episode is a brisk, clue-driven whodunit.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
28:04 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Phonograph Murder,” originally broadcast April 15, 1947, is episode 118 of the syndicated detective series starring Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie. The story is also known as “Record on Death” and “Murder on Record.”

When Jim Grant receives a mysterious phonograph record predicting his death, Blackie is drawn into a troubling case involving Grant’s girlfriend Helen Martin, his brother Bill, and Jack Adams. The recorded threat raises urgent questions of motive, opportunity, and who could make such a chilling warning come true.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
28:21 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Joe Crain, Hired Killer” (episode 144), originally broadcast October 15, 1947. Also listed under the alternate title “Murder Comes To Town,” this Mutual-era adventure stars Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday and Lesley Woods as Mary Wesley.

Notorious killer Joe Crain comes to town on a job involving Arnold Peterson and his wife, Sally. When competing motives and an old grudge complicate the scheme, Blackie is drawn into a swift-moving murder mystery.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:38 Original Broadcast
26:48 Closing

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Boston Blackie presents “Murder of John Walters,” originally broadcast May 2, 1945. Episode 17 of the Richard Kollmar-era syndicated series finds Blackie and his sidekick Shorty drawn into a troubling discovery at a public park pond.

When John Walters is found floating in the water, an apparently unused pair of shoes raises questions that do not fit the obvious explanation. With Inspector Faraday and Mary also in the familiar Boston Blackie world, the case follows the peculiar footwear clue toward an insurance-related mystery. Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Tony Barrett as Shorty and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.

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00:43 Original Broadcast
25:04 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “The Backstage Murder,” originally broadcast September 10, 1946, is episode 87 of the Richard Kollmar-led Ziv syndicated series. Kollmar stars as Blackie, with Jan Miner as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.

Mary talks Blackie into appearing in a benefit rehearsal of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, but the backstage fun turns deadly when theater superintendent Roger Knowlton is found stabbed in an open trunk. Marked playing cards lead Blackie into a tangled mystery among the theater’s props, performers, and possible victims of Knowlton’s card cheating.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
28:31 Closing

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