Where Oh Where Has My Mary Gone: Boston Blackie (December 24, 1947)

“Where Oh Where Has My Mary Gone” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 24, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Boston Blackie searches for Mary Wesley, a young woman who disappeared after he sent her to locate jewelry racketeer Henry Tyler. When Blackie visits Mary's apartment the next day, he finds her gone and a stranger, Wanda Bennett, claiming to have lived there for years. As Blackie and Inspector Faraday investigate the mystery of Mary's vanishing, they uncover a watch-switching scheme involving Tyler and a missing shipping clerk named Bill Willoughby.

A city apartment building on Dale Avenue; various locations including police headquarters, a jewelry shop, and a post office.

Characters: Boston Blackie, Mary Wesley, Henry Tyler, Inspector Faraday, Bill Willoughby, Wanda Bennett, Harry the doorman, Mr. Skylander the superintendent

Listen for: The mystery of Mary Wesley's disappearance and the revelation of an elaborate scheme involving switched watches and hidden identities.

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.