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🗓️ 22 December 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Our journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying. |
0:07.0 | I hope you will enjoy the trip that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. |
0:15.0 | So settle back. Get a good grip on your nerves. |
0:22.7 | Where are we going? |
0:26.2 | You'll find out when we get there. |
0:36.7 | Well, welcome back to the podcast, everybody. I hope that everyone is having a great Christmas season, |
0:42.2 | and I hope that you are gearing up to celebrate a very wonderful time of the year. |
0:50.1 | I've been trying to pick out a few Christmassy- from old-time radio to share with you guys over the holidays. |
0:59.9 | And I've found a Christmas-type episode from a program called Boston Blackie that I would like to play for you today. |
1:10.6 | This will be the first episode that I've aired from Boston Blackie that I would like to play for you today. This will be the first episode that I've aired from Boston Blackie, |
1:15.4 | so I look forward to airing more in the future. |
1:19.5 | Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle. |
1:27.2 | Originally, he was a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, |
1:33.2 | but he became a detective in adaptations for films, radio, and television. |
1:40.2 | The common mantra with Boston Blackie was an enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend. |
1:50.2 | His first appearance was in the price of principle of 1914. Now I want to talk a little bit about Boston Blackie on the radio because that's primarily what we are concerned with on this podcast. |
2:05.9 | So there were a couple of runs of Boston Blackie on the radio. One starring actor Chester Morris and the other starring actor Richard Kammer. Now I'm not going to talk about Chester Morris and the other starring actor Richard Calmer. |
2:18.6 | Now, I'm not going to talk about Chester Morris today. |
2:21.5 | We will talk about him when we actually air an episode starring him. |
2:25.9 | The episode that I'm airing today was from the Richard Calmer run of the show. |
2:31.2 | The second run of the show was from April, 1945, until October 1950. This also |
2:40.0 | starred Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday and Leslie Woods as Boston Blackie's girlfriend, Mary. |
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