Sam Bellows Is Dead: Boston Blackie (June 18, 1945)

“Sam Bellows Is Dead” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 18, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie tells Inspector Faraday he has murdered a man named Sam Bellows to gain access to Bellows' heavily guarded brownstone house. When the inspector reluctantly investigates, they discover Bellows is indeed dead, stabbed in the chest in his wheelchair, and uncover a household containing more than just the victim.

Boston; a brownstone house at the corner of West Boulevard and 110th Street; Mary's home; police headquarters

Characters: Boston Blackie, Inspector Faraday, Mary, Charlie Kingston, Sam Bellows, The maintenance man, Frank Lewis, Larry Addington

Listen for: Blackie's clever ruse to gain entry to a locked house; the revelation of Bellows' murder; the discovery of who else inhabits the mysterious brownstone.

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.