Blackstone, the Magic Detective
Mutual
Mutual · 1948–1949
Broadcasts
38
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1948–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 38
- Genre
- mystery
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949. Ed Jerome played a character based on the real stage magician Harry Blackstone, who consulted on the programme; each episode closed with an explanation of a trick listeners could perform themselves. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
3 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.
- 1. Midway Robberies · 2 Jan 1949
- 2. Frozen Lady · 9 Jan 1949
- 3. Hooded Rider · 16 Jan 1949
- 01
Midway Robberies
2 Jan 1949 · 13 min
- 02
Frozen Lady
9 Jan 1949 · 13 min
- 03
Hooded Rider
16 Jan 1949 · 12 min
- 04
Phantom Intermezzo
23 Jan 1949 · 13 min
- 05
Vanishing Pearls
30 Jan 1949 · 13 min
- 06
Curse Of Yogi
6 Feb 1949 · 13 min
- 07
Coin Of Cleopatra
13 Feb 1949 · 13 min
- 08
Hand Of Cagliostro
20 Feb 1949 · 12 min
Same night on the air
20 Feb 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 20 Feb 1949.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1948–1949
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mystery on the air then
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