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Blackstone 1949 (ep14) The Midway Robberies
13:10
2
Blackstone 1949 (ep15) The Frozen Lady
13:01
3
Blackstone 1949 (ep16) The Hooded Rider
12:56
4
Blackstone - 1949 (ep17) The Phantom Intermezzo
13:09
5
Blackstone - 1949 (ep18) The Vanishing Pearls
13:26
6
Blackstone - 1949 (ep19) The Curse of the Yogi
13:17
7
Blackstone - 1949 (ep20) The Coin of Cleopatra
13:52
8
Blackstone - 1949 (ep21) The Hand of Cagliostro
12:51
Blackstone - 1949 (ep22) The Message From Nowhere
13:16
10
Blackstone - 1949 (ep23) The Riddle of the Red Goose
13:13
11
Blackstone - 1949 (ep25) The Missing Palmist
13:21
12
Blackstone - 1949 (ep26) The Ladder of Wealth
13:22
13
Blackstone - 1949 (ep28) The Deathless Shots
13:08
14
Blackstone - 1949 (ep29) The Riddle of the Eight Ball
12:31
15
Blackstone - 1949 (ep30) The Cellini Statuette
12:48
16
Blackstone - 1949 (ep31) The Curse of Kali
13:27
17
Blackstone - 1949 (ep32) Footsteps In The Night
11:54
18
Blackstone - 1949 (ep33) The Voodoo Treasure
12:42
19
Blackstone - 1949 (ep34) Four Keys To Crime
12:19
20
Blackstone - 1949 (ep35) The Knife From the Dark
11:56
21
Blackstone - 1949 (ep36) Death In the Crystal
12:19
22
Blackstone - 1949 (ep37) The Hindu Sword Cabinet
12:12
23
Blackstone - 1949 (ep38) The Face of Death
12:15
24
Blackstone 1949 (ep39) The Voice From The Void
12:05
25
Blackstone 1949 (ep40) The Bird of Doom
12:07
26
Blackstone 1949 (ep41) The Phantom Detective
12:09
27
Blackstone 1949 (ep42) The Riddle of the Seven Zombies
12:08
28
Blackstone 1949 (ep43) Crime In The Stars
12:10
29
Blackstone 1949 (ep44) The Devils Cauldron
12:09
30
Blackstone 1949 (ep45) The Ghost In The Crypt
12:10
31
Blackstone 1949 (ep46) The Accusing Corpse
12:12
32
Blackstone 1949 (ep47) Death Defying Death
12:59
33
Blackstone 1949 (ep48) The Criminal Who Caught Himself
12:34
34
Blackstone 1949 (ep49) The Vanishing Brooch
12:19
35
Blackstone 1949 (ep50) Crimes On A Merry-Go-Round
12:07
36
Blackstone 1949 (ep51) The Magic Writing
11:59
37
Blackstone 1949 (ep54) The Mark of Crime
11:46
38
Blackstone 1949 (ep55) The Creeping Death (Final Ep)
9:27

Blackstone - 1949 (ep22) The Message From Nowhere

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We begin with episode 14 with this program. Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a 15-minute radio series based on Elmer Cecil Stoner's comic book series Blackstone, Master Magician. The program aired Sunday afternoons at 2:45pm on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 3, 1948, until March 26, 1950.

Radio
Starring Edwin Jerome as "the world's greatest living magician," the radio series was based on real-life magician Harry Blackstone, Sr.

The series was announced by Don Hancock from October 1948 through June 1949, and Alan Kent from July 1949 through to the end of the series in March 1950. The background organ music was supplied by Bill Meeder. Scripts were mostly by Walter B. Gibson, the ghostwriter of Blackstone's books, and Nancy Webb, who worked with Gibson on Chick Carter, Boy Detective.

Characters and story
The show usually opened with Blackstone (Ed Jerome) and his assistant Rhoda Brent (Fran Carlon) talking with a friend of theirs, either Don Hancock or Alan Kent (played by the episodes' announcers in-character as themselves) or John (Ted Osborne). A past adventure of Blackstone's would come up in conversation, and that mystery story was then dramatized as a flashback.

After the mystery's climax, the narrative returned to the three main characters as Blackstone performed a magic trick. After a commercial break handled by the announcer, Blackstone returned to demonstrate and explain the trick so that listeners could perform it for the amusement of their friends.

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