Monday, February 15, 2010

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Boston Blackie "The Apartment Swindler" (09-17-46)


The Apartment Swindler (Aired September 17, 1946)


Boston Blackie was portrayed in silent films by Bert Lytell, Lionel Barrymore, David Powell, William Russell, Forest Stanley and Raymond Glenn before Chester Morris made the role his own in 14 Columbia films and in a 1944 NBC summer replacement series (with Richard Lane reprising his screen role as Inspector Farraday). Following Chester Morris' summer series, Richard Kollmar starred as Blackie (with Maurice Tarplin as Farraday and Lesley Woods and Jan Miner as Mary Wesley) in a syndicated series that aired from April 11, 1945 through September 25, 1950. Kent Taylor later portrayed Boston Blackie in a 1951-53 television series.


THIS EPISODE:

September 17, 1946. "The Apartment Swindler" - Program #75. ABC network origination, Ziv syndication. Commercials added locally. The leader of a gang that is swindling people who are desperate to get an apartment is found murdered. Don't believe the mphotograph on the desk! Richard Kollmar. 28:11.

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