Boston Blackie, “Murder at the Movies,” originally broadcast December 13, 1945, is episode 48. Richard Kollmar stars as the resourceful Boston Blackie, with Jan Minor as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

Blackie and Mary visit a movie studio where Blackie is advising on safe-cracking scenes—just as a murder on the set presents an apparently impossible mystery involving an actress, a trunk, and the studio’s props and personnel.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
27:36 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Murder on the Trapeze,” originally broadcast April 2, 1946, is episode 64 of the syndicated detective series. Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Jan Miner as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

When Mary Wesley’s childhood friend, now a trapeze artist, fears she is marked for murder, Blackie enters the dangerous world of aerial performance to investigate the threat. This circa-27-minute mystery brings the suave detective into a case where every high-wire moment may carry deadly stakes.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
28:07 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Simmons Construction Murder,” originally broadcast November 29, 1945, is episode 46 of the classic crime-detective series.

When construction foreman Bill Woods is shot at John Simmons’s high-rise project, Boston Blackie is laid up at home with severe laryngitis. With Inspector Faraday, Mary Wesley, and Shorty bringing the evidence to his bedside, Blackie must direct the investigation from afar—and suspects the first murder may not be the last.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:37 Original Broadcast
29:20 Closing

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Boston Blackie presents “Murder in the Music Room,” episode 44, originally broadcast November 15, 1945. Richard Kollmar stars as the debonair detective, with Jan Miner as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

When Mary asks Blackie to help her cousin’s song reach music publisher Joe Hendricks, he enters the competitive world of Tin Pan Alley. A bitter songwriting partnership, a music-room killing, and a tangle of professional rivalries soon give Blackie and Inspector Farraday plenty to investigate.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:38 Original Broadcast
26:25 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Mrs George Trilling’s Maid Is Murdered,” originally broadcast August 18, 1948, is episode 188 of the long-running detective series. This Richard Kollmar-era installment also features Maurice Tarplin and Lesley Woods.

When a wary maid at Mrs. George Trilling’s apartment becomes entangled in a threatening door-to-door delivery, Boston Blackie follows the trail into a dangerous scheme targeting the household staffs of wealthy women. Inspector Farraday joins the investigation as Blackie probes the mystery behind a salesman, a package, and a mounting threat.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:34 Closing

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Boston Blackie presents “Wrestling Ring Murder,” originally broadcast March 24, 1948. Episode 167 stars Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.

Rookie wrestler Tiny “Mountain” Culpepper faces Stretcher Lewis in a bout that turns into a criminal investigation. When Tiny is accused of manslaughter, Blackie looks beyond the apparent ring tragedy and into the hard-edged world of professional wrestling and its backstage management.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:39 Original Broadcast
25:28 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “The Baseball Player Murder,” originally broadcast April 16, 1946. Episode 66 finds Richard Kollmar’s suave detective drawn into danger at the ballpark after a baseball player’s urgent call is followed by a killing.

As pressure builds around rookie sensation Slamming Sammy Saunders and a gambling debt threatens his brother, Blackie faces mounting suspicion while Inspector Faraday closes in. The episode features Maurice Tarplin as Faraday and sports broadcaster Clem McCarthy calling the baseball-game action.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
29:14 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “The Murdering Coo-Coo Clock,” originally broadcast July 23, 1946, is episode 80 of the classic detective series. Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Maurice Tarplin and Lesley Woods also featured.

When Mary Wesley visits a clock shop, Blackie becomes involved with an elderly clockmaker, his son Walter, and an apparently harmless cuckoo clock with a deadly secret hidden in its winding key. After violence at a party draws Inspector Farraday into the case, Blackie investigates the sinister mechanism and the people connected to it.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
26:59 Closing

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Boston Blackie, “Murder Aboard Ship,” originally broadcast July 30, 1946, is episode 81 of the Richard Kollmar detective series. Produced by Frederick W. Ziv Productions, the episode is also known as “Mutiny Leads to Murder Aboard the Freighter Swan.”

Aboard the freighter Swan, a crew’s interest in a valuable cargo puts them at odds with its owner, the ship’s lone passenger. When murder enters the voyage, Boston Blackie faces a tightly confined mystery at sea involving Inspector Farraday, Shorty, and cabin boy Jimmy Adams.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:36 Original Broadcast
25:14 Closing

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Boston Blackie presents “The Lenny Powell Murder,” episode 98, originally broadcast November 26, 1946. Richard Kollmar stars as Boston Blackie, with Jan Minor as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.

At Lincoln Airport, Lenny Powell offers three struggling air-freight pilots a lucrative $5,000 job while carrying $25,000 in cash. When Powell is murdered and the money vanishes, Blackie must sort through the suspicions surrounding pilots Mike, Tex, and Joe. Also cataloged as “The Airline Murder” and “Murder at the Airport.”

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
28:19 Closing

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