Copy Of The Diamond Bracelet: Boston Blackie (October 11, 1945)

“Copy Of The Diamond Bracelet” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 11, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A customer buys a $25,000 diamond bracelet from clerk Dick Ainsley at Marches jewelry store, then returns it ten minutes later claiming it's a worthless imitation. Boston Blackie must prove his friend's cousin innocent by uncovering who switched the bracelets and why.

New York City, including the Carousel theater backstage, Marches jewelry store, Gallagher's appraisers, Sam Watkins' shop, and Tom Ward's townhouse apartment

Characters: Boston Blackie, Dick Ainsley, Iva Withers, Inspector Faraday, Harry Bernard, Tom Ward, Sam Watkins, Shorty

Listen for: The clever bracelet-switching scheme and how Blackie disguises Dick as a chorus girl to hide him from the police backstage at the theater

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.