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
- 1947–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 167
- Genre
- docudrama
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “You_Are_There_OTR”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1949 · 41948 · 61947 · 2
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: You_Are_There_OTR
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1947
1948
1949
1950
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. You Are There ep01 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln · 7 Jul 1947
- 2. You Are There 1947-08-25 (7) The Last Day Of Pompeii · 25 Aug 1947
- 3. You Are There ep13 The Burr - Hamilton Duel · 11 Jan 1948
- 01
You Are There ep01 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
7 Jul 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
You Are There 1947-08-25 (7) The Last Day Of Pompeii
25 Aug 1947 · 31 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 August 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
You Are There ep13 The Burr - Hamilton Duel
11 Jan 1948 · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
You Are There ep20 Joan of Arc Is Burned at the Stake
29 Feb 1948 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
You Are There 1948-04-18 (26) The Battle of Plassey
18 Apr 1948 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 18 April 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
You Are There ep35 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
20 Jun 1948 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
You Are There 1948-09-26 (43) Ann Hutchinson's Trial
26 Sep 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 26 September 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
You Are There ep50 Napoleon Recaptured and Exiled
14 Nov 1948 · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
20 Feb 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 20 Feb 1949.
Pat Novak, For Hire
Originally broadcast on ABC, 20 February 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Box 13
Broadcast on Mutual. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
NBC University Theater
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1947–1950
Other series the network carried while You Are There was on the air.
Same seasons
docudrama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
History, dramatised
A historical event staged with actors and a narrator who insists on the date. Cavalcade of America and You Are There made the past into scenes.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of You Are There
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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