A Boat In The Street: Boston Blackie (January 19, 1949)

“A Boat In The Street” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 19, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie investigates when a body is discovered on a boat left on Montgomery Street. Press agent Gregory Thompson from Imperial Studios claims it's all part of a publicity stunt to promote the studio's new film "High and Dry," but Inspector Faraday suspects Thompson may be responsible for the murder.

Hollywood and the streets of the city, including Imperial Studios and a boat on Montgomery Street

Characters: Boston Blackie, Inspector Faraday, Gregory Thompson, Linda, Jules Arnold, Mary, Lily, Jeffrey Good

Listen for: The classic Boston Blackie introduction and his investigation into whether a murder was genuinely committed or staged as a film publicity stunt

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.