Joe Delivers The Goods: Boston Blackie (February 25, 1947)

“Joe Delivers The Goods” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 25, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

When Joe Barton, a young man working at his parents' tourist cabin motel, disappears without explanation, his worried mother and father seek out Boston Blackie for help. A mysterious phone call told Joe's girlfriend Sylvia that he was buying a bus ticket, but when Blackie investigates, he discovers no ticket was sold and begins to suspect someone is deliberately misleading them about Joe's whereabouts.

A small town with a tourist cabin motel on Highway 19, a filling station, and a bus terminal

Characters: Boston Blackie, Joe Barton, Sylvia, Martha Barton, John Barton, Miss Wesley

Listen for: The mystery of Joe's disappearance deepens as Blackie discovers the bus terminal ticket story is false, and learns that Joe was frightened and said he was in some kind of jam before vanishing.

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.