Black Market Blackieaka-black Market Meat Ring: Boston Blackie (July 21, 1944)

“Black Market Blackieaka-black Market Meat Ring” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 21, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie is pulled into a black market meat smuggling ring when thugs threaten him to join their operation. Meanwhile, a legitimate cattle rancher named Miss Parker seeks his help getting her trucks through to customers, revealing that the same black market gang has been hijacking her shipments. Blackie decides to fight the black market operation.

A city with meat smuggling operations and police department; Blackie's apartment.

Characters: Boston Blackie, Shorty, Steve, Miss Parker, Inspector Faraday, Matthew

Listen for: The clash between Blackie's forced involvement in the black market scheme and his decision to help an honest rancher fight the same gang; his interactions with the skeptical Inspector Faraday.

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.