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
- 1949–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 181
- Genre
- theatre
Screen Directors' Playhouse is a popular American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcasts adaptations of films with the original directors of the films sometimes involved in the production although their participation was usually li
1951 · 21950 · 41949 · 6
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 45 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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: OTRR_Screen_Directors_Playhouse_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1949
1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.
- 1. Screen Directors Playhouse Stagecoach · 9 Jan 1949
- 2. Screen Directors Playhouse A Foreign Affair · 6 Mar 1949
- 3. It's a Wonderful Life · 8 May 1949
- 01
Screen Directors Playhouse Stagecoach
9 Jan 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 9 January 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Screen Directors Playhouse A Foreign Affair
6 Mar 1949 · 59 min
Broadcast 6 March 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
It's a Wonderful Life
8 May 1949 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Screen_Directors_Playhouse_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Casbah
22 Jul 1949 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Screen_Directors_Playhouse_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Screen Directors Playhouse Whispering Smith
16 Sep 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 16 September 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
The Uninvited
18 Nov 1949 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Screen_Directors_Playhouse_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Tomorrow Is Forever
13 Jan 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Screen_Directors_Playhouse_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
Screen Directors Playhouse Champion
17 Mar 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 17 March 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
6 Mar 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1949.
Broadway Is My Beat
Broadcast 6 March 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1949–1951
Other series the network carried while Screen Directors Playhouse 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 Screen Directors Playhouse
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