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Boston Blackie Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Train Murder

First aired: Sep/08/1951
Writer: J. Benton Cheney
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Frank Richards (guest star), Billy Nelson (guest star), Douglas Evans (guest star), Ben Welden (guest star), Paul Maxey (guest star), John Berkes (guest star)

On a warm summer's eve, on a train bound for Los Angeles, a noted gambler is found murdered in his compartment, the door of which is locked from the inside and every other means of entrance is sealed. Boston Blackie, also traveling on the train, attempts to solve the case. Will he know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em? And will he be able to walk away once the dealing's done?



2 :01x02 - Cop Killer

First aired: Sep/15/1951
Writer: Warren Wilson
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Frank Mitchell (guest star), Jack Mulhall (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), Richard Crane (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), Sam Scar (guest star), George Pembroke (guest star)

Boston Blackie gets on the trail of three men who have robbed an armored car and killed a policeman in the process.



3 :01x03 - Oil Field Murder

First aired: Sep/22/1951
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Tom Kennedy (guest star), Lester Dorr (guest star), Frank Hagney (guest star), Pamela Blake (guest star), Thayer Roberts (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), Jean Willes (guest star)

The police find a woman wanted for fraud in an oil land scheme murdered in Blackie's apartment. He investigates in order to clear his name.



4 :01x04 - Phone Booth Murder

First aired: Sep/29/1951
Writer: Warren Wilson
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: William Haade (guest star), Mary Ellen Popel (guest star), William Lester (guest star), John Merton (guest star), Marshall Reed (guest star), Frank Jaquet (guest star), Carlo Schipa (guest star), Fred Sherman (guest star)

After a man is found murdered in a restaurant phone booth, Blackie investigates and discovers that the eatery is a front for a counterfeiting ring.



5 :01x05 - Blind Beggar

First aired: Oct/06/1951
Writer: Jack Dewitt
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Thayer Roberts (guest star), Tom Kennedy (guest star), Joseph J. Greene (guest star), Sondra Rodgers (guest star), Lester Dorr (guest star)

A blind begger holds the key to unlocking a mystery.



6 :01x06 - Fortune Teller

First aired: Oct/13/1951
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Paul Landres

Blackie finds himself accused of the murder of a man who was mixed up in a fraudulent fortune telling racket.



7 :01x07 - Scar Hand

First aired: Oct/20/1951
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Paul Landres

A man, desperate for money to finance his child's operation, hires someone to kill him so that the child will inherit his life insurance proceeds. It's Blackie to the rescue when the man comes into money from an unexpected source and no longer needs the hitman, who's determined to see the job through.



8 :01x08 - Faraday Murder Case

First aired: Oct/27/1951
Writer: Warren Wilson
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Frank Mitchell (guest star), Lorna Thayer (guest star), Frank Stanlow (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), George Milan (guest star), Arthur Reeves (guest star), Richard Crane (guest star), Sam Scar (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), George Pembroke (guest star)

Blackie's nemisis on the LAPD, Inspector Faraday, reluctantly asks him to lend a hand in a murder investigation.



9 :01x09 - Beach Murder

First aired: Nov/03/1951
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Bruce Cameron (guest star), Bernadene Hayes (guest star), David Ormont (guest star), Donald Kerr (guest star), Michael Vallon (guest star), Karl Davis (guest star), Alice Rolph (guest star), Frank Jenks (guest star)

During the course of a murder investigation, Blackie discovers that empty beachfront houses are being used to smuggle illegal aliens into the country.



10 :01x10 - Gang Murder

First aired: Nov/10/1951
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: John Sebastian (guest star), Robert J. Stevenson (guest star), Larry Hudson (guest star), Charles Sullivan (guest star), Tom Neal (guest star), Gene Roth (guest star), Louise Arthur (guest star)

A young police detective feels that his brother's murder is not being investigated thoroughly enough by the department and asks Blackie to look into the matter.



11 :01x11 - Toy Factory Murder

First aired: Nov/17/1951
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Marshall Reed (guest star), Wheaton Chambers (guest stars), Fred Sherman (guest star), Mary Kent (guest star), Eugene Jackson (guest star), Christine Larsen (guest star), Karen Randle (guest star)

Blackie is on the case when a toy factory draftsman is found murdered.



12 :01x12 - Roller Coaster Murder

First aired: Nov/24/1951
Writer: J. Benton Cheney
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Paul Bryar (guest star), Gregg Martell (guest star), Phil Arnold (guest star), Terry Frost (guest star), Tom Tyler (guest star)

After a man falls to his death from a speeding roller coaster, the police say it was an accident. Blackie, on the other hand, isn't so certain.



13 :01x13 - High Voltage Murder

First aired: Dec/03/1951
Writer: Warren Wilson
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: John Merrick (guest star), Michael Whalen (guest star), Mary Jane Saunders (guest star), Jack Mulhall (guest star), John Eldredge (guest star), Ted Stanhope (guest star), Ernie Venneri (guest star), Russ Conway (guest star)

Blackie is hired to find missing top secret documents that were stolen by a recently paroled criminal. The trail leads to a power plant.



14 :01x14 - Waterfront Murder

First aired: Dec/10/1951
Writer: J. Benton Cheney
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Frank Jenks (guest star), Bernadene Hayes (guest star), Aram Katcher (guest star), Michael Vallon (guest star), Karl Davis (guest star)

When a man is killed by some unknown poison, his wife asks Blackie for help but then she dies by the same method.



15 :01x15 - Griffith Park Murder

First aired: Dec/17/1951
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Terry Frost (guest star), Roland Varno (guest star), Paul Bryar (guest star), Alan Harris (guest star), Luther Crockett (guest star), Maris Wrixon (guest star), Anthony Jochim (guest star)

A dealer in rare books is found dead on a deserted path in Griffith Park. Blackie is hired to look into things.



16 :01x16 - The Devil's Daughters

First aired: Dec/24/1951
Writer: Eddie Davis
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Tristram Coffin (guest star), Margaret Hedin (guest star), Christine McIntyre (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), Bobby Jordan (Waiter)

Blackie's foes this time are female teenaged hellcats who have committed a series of supermarket hold-ups and then taken his secretary/galpal Mary Wesley hostage.



17 :01x17 - The Crusader

First aired: Dec/31/1951
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: George Douglas (guest star), Norval Mitchell (guest star), Robert Spencer (guest star), Lucille Curtis (guest star), James Guilfoyle (guest star), Wendy Waldron (guest star)

Blackie investigates the death of man killed by a high-powered hunting rifle.



18 :01x18 - Death by Dictation

First aired: Jan/07/1952
Writer: Robert White, Bernard Ederer
Director: Paul Landres

Galpal/secretary Mary Wesley gets Blackie to investigate the mysterious death of a fellow secretary.



19 :01x19 - The Lying Blackmailer

First aired: Jan/14/1952
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Paul Landres

A blackmail victim approaches Blackie for assistance.



20 :01x20 - Delmark Diamond Case

First aired: Jan/21/1952
Writer: Milton Raison
Director: Paul Landres

After a diamond cutter friend of his is framed for murder, Blackie jumps into the midst to set things right.



21 :01x21 - Bad Time Charlie

First aired: Jan/28/1952
Writer: Donn Mullally
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Valerie Vernon (guest star), Stephen Chase (guest star), Walter McGrail (guest star), Paul Purcell (guest star), Dean Henson (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), Paul Kerst (guest star), Stuart Whitman (guest star)

The brother of a convicted killer is convinced of his sibling's innocence and gets Blackie to investigate the matter.



22 :01x22 - Mother Wore Blinders

First aired: Feb/04/1952
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Mira McKinney (guest star), Richard Bartell (guest star), Donald Kerr (guest star), Richard Grant (guest star), Gloria Saunders (guest star), Joe Turkel (guest star), Frank Marlowe (guest star)

A nightclub piano player suspects something is wrong with her son and asks Blackie to look into things. In reality, Mommy doesn't know the half of it. Sonny is involved in a double life of crime and murder.



23 :01x23 - The Director's Dilemma

First aired: Feb/11/1952
Writer: Donn Mullally
Director: Sobey Martin

Blackie is approached by a Hollywood director who needs his help.



24 :01x24 - Red Hot Murder

First aired: Feb/18/1952
Writer: Milton Raison, J. Benton Cheney
Director: Eddie Davis



25 :01x25 - Chinese Lottery

First aired: Feb/25/1952
Writer: Warren Wilson
Director: Paul Landres
Guest star: Troy Melton (guest star), George Cheung (guest star), Rudy Mccool (guest star), Wen Ti Chang (guest star), William Yip (guest star), Robert W. Lee (guest star), Barbara Jean Wong (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), William Hamel (guest star), Mike Dale (guest star)

Blackie travels to Chinatown to investigate a murder which took place there.



26 :01x26 - The Big H Murder

First aired: Mar/03/1952
Writer: Robert White, Bernard Ederer
Director: Sobey Martin

An actor goes to Blackie for help after discovering that his agent is the mastermind behind a series of jewel thefts in Hollywood.



27 :02x01 - Black Widow

First aired: Mar/10/1952
Writer: Donn Mullally
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Joe McGuinn (guest star), John Pickard (guest star), Sheila Watson (guest star), John Marshall (guest star), Pierre Watkin (guest star), Stephen Gregory (guest star)

Blackie matches wits with a scheming female who's plotting to have her husband murdered and the man with whom she's having an affair framed for the crime.



28 :02x02 - Fall Guy

First aired: Mar/17/1952
Writer: Donn Mullally
Director: George Cahan

Blackie's housekeeper hires him to clear her brother who's been accused of assault.



29 :02x03 - Death Trap

First aired: Mar/24/1952
Writer: Donn Mullally, Herbert Purdom
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: John Marshall (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), Sheila Watson (guest star), John Pickard (guest star), Allen O'Lockin (guest star), Stephen Gregory (guest star), Scott Douglas (guest star)

A killer is systematically bumping off everyone who could convict him and Blackie finds himself next on the list.



30 :02x04 - 13th Dummy

First aired: Mar/31/1952
Writer: Donn Mullally
Director: George Cahan

A fashion designer's life is threatened when her estranged husband decides to make a hostile takeover of her business.



31 :02x05 - Deep Six

First aired: Apr/07/1952
Writer: Donn Mullally, Roy Hamilton
Director: George Cahan
Guest star: Lee Van Cleef (guest star), Hugh Sanders (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), Peter Mamakos (guest star), William Bakewell (guest star), Clark Howat (guest star), Tracey Roberts (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star)

Blackie and galpal Mary attend an engagement party and wind up having to solve the murder of the prospective groom.



32 :02x06 - Minuet for Murders

First aired: Apr/14/1952
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: George Cahan
Guest star: Earle Hodgins (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), Evelynne Eaton (guest star), John Carson (guest star), Don Peters (guest star), Skelton Knaggs (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), Reed Howes (guest star)

A burglar, a shady lawyer, and a bus terminal are the keys in Blackie's attempts to recover incriminating letters about a young woman.



33 :02x07 - Timely Hour

First aired: Apr/21/1952
Writer: Donn Mullally
Director: Sobey Martin

Blackie's vacation plans are interrupted when an actor friend of his is falsely accused of making an attempt on a director's life.



34 :02x08 - Queen of Thieves

First aired: Apr/28/1952
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: George Cahan
Guest star: Don Peters (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), Mary Young (guest star), Earle Hodgins (guest star), Skelton Knaggs (guest star), Reed Howes (guest star)

A crook gets shot down while attempting to tell Blackie about his activities.



35 :02x09 - 101 Blonde

First aired: May/05/1952
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest star: Ted Hecht (guest star), Walter Kelley (guest star), John Crawford (guest star), Barry Bernard (guest star), Marjorie Weaver (guest star)

When Blackie attempts to clear a client of a hit-and-run charge it leads to a complex case of murder on a movie set.



36 :02x10 - Inside Crime

First aired: May/12/1952
Writer: Buckley Angell, Donn Mullally
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Troy Melton (guest star)

A hold-up gang holds Blackie's galpal, Mary Wesley, hostage in order to prevent him from going to the police with their identities.



37 :02x11 - So Was Goliath

First aired: May/19/1952
Writer: Oliver Crawford
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Charles Wagenheim (guest star), Emory Parnell (guest star), Allen Jenkins (guest star), Don Dillaway (guest star), Anne Kimbell (guest star), John Kellogg (guest star), John Indrisano (guest star)

Blackie befriends a college student/boxer who's torn between an academic career and winning fame and fortune in the squared circle.



38 :02x12 - Death Does a Rhumba

First aired: May/26/1952
Writer: Burt Sims
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest star: Maurice Jara (guest star), Richard Reeves (guest star), Vicky Bakken (guest star), Felipe Turich (guest star), Leo Penn (guest star)

Blackie tries to convince an old friend, who's now a wanted fugitive, to turn himself into the authorities.



39 :02x13 - The Gunman

First aired: Jun/02/1952
Writer: David Heath
Director: Eddie Davis

Blackie tries to convince a friend who works for a protection racket to go straight but the friend is found murdered shortly afterwards.



40 :02x14 - Jack in the Box

First aired: Jun/09/1952
Writer: Irwin Lieberman
Director: Sobey Martin

Blackie tangles with industrial diamond smugglers operating along the Mexican border.



41 :02x15 - Revenge

First aired: Jun/16/1952
Writer: Howard Dimsdale
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest star: Bill Phillips (guest star), Alex Sharp (guest star), Allan Roy (guest star), Peter Brocco (guest star), John Close (guest star), Larry Stewart (guest star)

Blackie gets jailed for his own protection against a mobster who threatened his life. But is he really any safer behind bars?



42 :02x16 - The Friendly Gesture

First aired: Jun/23/1952
Writer: Dennis Cooper
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest star: Irene Vernon (guest star), Ben Welden (guest star), Bill Catching (guest star), Ted Mapes (guest star), Edgar Dearing (guest star), Ben Cameron (Barney Stevens), Art Gilmore (guest star), Troy Melton (guest star), Robert Keys (guest star)

A bank robber escapes from prison and immediately resumes his former profession. He's identified by a teller and later capture by the police but an accomplice kills the teller. Blackie then tries to protect the teller's wife.



43 :02x17 - The Heist Job

First aired: Jun/30/1952
Writer: John Loring
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Peter Leeds (guest star), Cosmo Sardo (Harry Webb), Jan Bryant (Marge Evans), Enid Baine (Nurse), Billy Halop (Johnny Evans), Clarence Straight (Policeman)

Blackie tries to vindicate an ex-convict taxi driver whom he once sent to prison.



44 :02x18 - Deadly Payoff

First aired: Jul/07/1952
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
Director: Eddie Davis

Blackie is hired to accompany an importer carrying ransom for his kidnapped wife.



45 :02x19 - The Hot Gimmick

First aired: Jul/14/1952
Writer: Al C. Ward
Director: Sobey Martin

Blackie goes in pursuit of a thief who unwittingly stole a time bomb along with a horde of jewels.



46 :02x20 - The Alibi

First aired: Jul/21/1952
Writer: Herbert Purdom
Director: Eddie Davis

A man whose secretary was mysteriously murdered tries to get Blackie to provide him with an alibi.



47 :02x21 - Keys to the Killer

First aired: Jul/28/1952
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
Director: Eddie Davis

Blackie steps into the middle of a quarrel between two feuding brothers.



48 :02x22 - Studio Murder

First aired: Aug/04/1952
Writer: Jack Dewitt
Director: Eddie Davis

On another movie set, Blackie sets out to discover who's been causing a series of "accidents" that nearly caused the death of a famous actress.



49 :02x23 - Hired Hand

First aired: Aug/11/1952
Writer: Bill Wolff
Director: Sobey Martin

A farmhand, who was recently released from mental institution, is suspected of trying to murder a farm couple but Blackie, as is his norm, thinks otherwise.



50 :02x24 - Shoot the Works

First aired: Aug/18/1952
Writer: Irwin Lieberman
Director: Sobey Martin



51 :02x25 - The Motorcycle Kids

First aired: Aug/25/1952
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest star: Wheaton Chambers (guest star), Sandy Sanders (guest star), Harry Brown (guest star), Gloria Talbott (guest star)

Blackie investigates a series of robberies committed by a young couple who use a motorcycle as their getaway vehicle.



52 :02x26 - A Date with Romero

First aired: Sep/01/1952
Writer: Warren Wilson
Director: Eddie Davis

Blackie investigates the murder of a television star who was killed on-camera.



53 :02x27 - False Face

First aired: Sep/08/1952
Writer: J. Benton Cheney
Director: Eddie Davis

A bank president walks out with a satchel full of money from his institution in Blackie's presence. Or did he?



54 :02x28 - Crown Jewels

First aired: Sep/15/1952
Writer: Barney A. Sarecky, Eddie Davis
Director: Eddie Davis
Guest star: Bill Catching (guest star), Gil Frye (guest star), Charlita (guest star), John Merton (guest star), Michael Ansara (guest star)

The police call in Blackie when valuable jewels belonging to a foreign nation are stolen from a guarded safe.



55 :02x29 - Pursuit

First aired: Sep/22/1952
Writer: Howard Dimsdale
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest star: John Doucette (guest star), Joe E. Ross (guest star), Lyle Talbot (guest star), Diane Fortier (guest star), Irvin Ashkenazy (guest star)

A down and out oil man asks Blackie's help. He wants to recover the proceeds of a ten year old robbery.



56 :02x30 - Grab Bag

First aired: Sep/29/1952
Writer: Tom Gries
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest star: Karen King (guest star), Roscoe Ates (guest star), Henry Rowland (guest star), Philip Van Zandt (guest star)

Blackie searches the Union Pacific railroad yards to locate a missing heir.



57 :02x31 - Narcotic Ring

First aired: Oct/06/1952
Writer: Barney A. Sarecky
Director: Eddie Davis

Blackie gets involved in a phony automobile accident as well as stolen naroctics.



58 :02x32 - Big Tom's Clambake

First aired: Oct/13/1952
Writer: Warren Wilson
Director: Eddie Davis

Blackie gets caught in the middle of a feud between rival groups of truckers.