Originally broadcast on ABC, 20 February 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: Blackstone_The_Magic_Detective
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.
JFMAMJJASOND
1948
1949
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
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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
Midway Robberies
2 Jan 1949 · 13 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Frozen Lady
9 Jan 1949 · 13 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Hooded Rider
16 Jan 1949 · 12 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Phantom Intermezzo
23 Jan 1949 · 13 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Vanishing Pearls
30 Jan 1949 · 13 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Curse Of Yogi
6 Feb 1949 · 13 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Coin Of Cleopatra
13 Feb 1949 · 13 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Hand Of Cagliostro
20 Feb 1949 · 12 min
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
Same night on the air
20 Feb 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 20 Feb 1949.
Broadcast on Mutual. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1948–1949
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mystery on the air then
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