The Murdered Truck Driver: Boston Blackie (July 16, 1946)

“The Murdered Truck Driver” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 16, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie's visitor Linda Crane reports that her husband Mark, a truck driver for the Big Green Line Trucking Company, has been missing for 24 hours after a quarrel. When Blackie reads the newspaper headlines, he discovers that Mark Crane has been found dead, apparently killed during a hijacking of his truck. Blackie joins Inspector Faraday at the trucking company offices to investigate the murder.

Boston; the Big Green Line Trucking Company offices and surrounding areas

Characters: Boston Blackie, Mary (Blackie's associate), Inspector Faraday, Linda Crane, Mark Crane (deceased truck driver), Mr. Green (trucking company owner), Joe Baxter (foreman and dispatcher)

Listen for: Boston Blackie's quick thinking and banter with Inspector Faraday; the revelation that the truck was traveling empty, not carrying cargo as initially assumed; Blackie's clever infiltration of the guarded trucking company office

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.