Mutual
Mutual · 1948–1949
Broadcasts
38
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949. Ed Jerome played a character based on the real stage magician Harry Blackstone, who consulted on the programme; each episode closed with an explanation of a trick listeners could perform themselves. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
3 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.
2 Jan 1949 · 13 min
9 Jan 1949 · 13 min
16 Jan 1949 · 12 min
23 Jan 1949 · 13 min
30 Jan 1949 · 13 min
6 Feb 1949 · 13 min
13 Feb 1949 · 13 min
20 Feb 1949 · 12 min
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 20 Feb 1949.
20 February
1949
ABC
Sunday
29 min
Originally broadcast on ABC, 20 February 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Pat_Novak_SinglesClean transfer · 96 kbps
20 February
1949
Mutual
Sunday
27 min
Broadcast on Mutual.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Box_13_SinglesCondition unmeasured
20 February
1949
CBS
Sunday
28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
Internet ArchiveYou_Are_There_OTRCondition unmeasured
20 February
1949
NBC
Sunday
59 min
Broadcast on NBC.
Internet ArchiveNBC_University_TheaterCondition unmeasured
Also on Mutual
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