The Valuable Door Buzzer: Boston Blackie (December 31, 1947)

“The Valuable Door Buzzer” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 31, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie investigates a mysterious door buzzer smuggled into the country by a man named Taylor, who received it from Pierre Lascale in Paris. When two criminals named Tom Downey and Joe Small learn that Taylor has the buzzer, they pursue him to obtain it, believing it opens a safe containing valuable items.

Paris and the United States, involving smuggling and a mysterious safe

Characters: Boston Blackie, Henry Taylor, Pierre Lascale, Tom Downey, Joe Small, Harry Johnson, Inspector

Listen for: The puzzle of what the simple door buzzer really opens and why it's so valuable that men will kill for it

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.