Blackstone, the Magic Detective
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1949–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 289
- Genre
- noir
BROADWAY'S MY BEAT Broadway's My Beat , a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With music by Robert Stringer, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air, with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover.
1953 · 41952 · 21951 · 21950 · 21949 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 22 of 40Listenable · 7 of 40Rough but complete · 11 of 40
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_Broadway_Is_My_Beat_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.
- 1. BIMB The Andrew Jenkins Case · 6 Mar 1949
- 2. BIMB The Tori Jones Murder Case · 10 Dec 1949
- 3. BIMB The Ernie Cauldwell Murder Case · 7 Apr 1950
- 01
BIMB The Andrew Jenkins Case
6 Mar 1949 · 28 min
Broadcast 6 March 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
BIMB The Tori Jones Murder Case
10 Dec 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 10 December 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
BIMB The Ernie Cauldwell Murder Case
7 Apr 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 7 April 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
BIMB The Harry Brett Murder Case
31 Jul 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 31 July 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
BIMB The Harry Foster Murder Case
5 May 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 5 May 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
BIMB The Ed Koster Murder Case
13 Oct 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 13 October 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
BIMB The Eve Hunter Murder Case
8 Mar 1952 · 30 min
Broadcast 8 March 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
BIMB The Mary Trevor Murder Case
25 Oct 1952 · 30 min
Broadcast 25 October 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
6 Mar 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1949.
Screen Directors Playhouse
Broadcast 6 March 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1949–1953
Other series the network carried while Broadway Is My Beat was on the air.
Same seasons
noir on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Broadway Is My Beat
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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