Blackstone, the Magic Detective
Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a fifteen-minute series broadcast Sunday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 1948 to April 1949.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 110
- Genre
- theatre
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “NBC_University_Theater”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1950 · 51949 · 41948 · 3
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: NBC_University_Theater
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 8 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1948
1949
1950
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. NBC University Theater 001 Main Street · 30 Jul 1948
- 2. NBC University Theater 010 Lord Jim · 3 Oct 1948
- 3. NBC University Theater 019 Three Soldiers · 5 Dec 1948
- 01
NBC University Theater 001 Main Street
30 Jul 1948 · 59 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
NBC University Theater 010 Lord Jim
3 Oct 1948 · 59 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
NBC University Theater 019 Three Soldiers
5 Dec 1948 · 59 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
NBC University Theater 028 Pride and Prejudice
20 Feb 1949 · 59 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
NBC University Theater 037 The Way of All Flesh
24 Apr 1949 · 59 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
NBC University Theater 048 Goodby, Mr Chips
9 Jul 1949 · 59 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
NBC University Theater 058 Portrait of a Lady
2 Oct 1949 · 59 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
NBC University Theater 069 Great Expectations
1 Jan 1950 · 59 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
20 Feb 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 20 Feb 1949.
Pat Novak, For Hire
Originally broadcast on ABC, 20 February 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Box 13
Broadcast on Mutual. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
You Are There
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while NBC University Theater was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of NBC University Theater
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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