Dolly Preston Calls For Help: Boston Blackie (March 9, 1949)

“Dolly Preston Calls For Help” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 9, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie receives a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming she's about to be killed at a specific address. When Blackie and the police arrive, they find the house supposedly empty for three years. A woman matching the description of the caller is found at a nearby candy store, but she's identified as Dolly Preston—who supposedly died three years ago. Blackie investigates the house and discovers dangerous secrets connected to a missing $600,000.

A city neighborhood featuring a vacant house, a candy store, and various locations including an apartment building and a real estate office.

Characters: Boston Blackie, Inspector, Mary, Dolly Preston, Roger, Bud Blake, Mrs. Nogra

Listen for: A mystery involving a supposedly dead woman who reappears, missing money, and the dangerous criminal Bud Blake who seems connected to the case.

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.