Blackstone -The Magic Detective


(4.8 stars; 2 reviews)

Starring  Edwin Jerome  as "the world's greatest living magician," the radio series was based on real-life magician  Harry Blackstone, Sr. The series was announced by Don Hancock from October 1948 through June 1949, and Alan Kent from July 1949 through to the end of the series in March, 1950. The background organ music was supplied by Bill Meeder. Scripts were mostly by  Walter B. Gibson , the ghostwriter of Blackstone's books, and Nancy Webb, who worked with Gibson on  Chick Carter, Boy Detective . [3]

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

1 11:49
2 11:21
3 11:45
4 11:17
48-10-31 Blackstone 005 EducatedDummy 12:37
48-11-07 Blackstone 006 RiddleOfTheTalkingSkull 12:47
48-11-14 Blackstone 007 WhisperingBhudah 12:56
48-11-21 Blackstone 008 OrganMurder 12:41
48-11-28 Blackstone 009 GhostThatWasn't 12:57
48-12-05 Blackstone 010 TheIcyTouch 13:05
48-12-12 Blackstone 011 UnderwaterDeath 13:06
48-12-19 Blackstone 012 CoinsOfConfucius 13:15
48-12-26 Blackstone 013 MurderOnStage 13:01
49-01-02 Blackstone 014 MidwayRobberies 13:10
49-01-09 Blackstone 015 FrozenLady 13:01
49-01-16 Blackstone 016 HoodedRider 12:56
49-01-23 Blackstone 017 PhantomIntermezzo 13:09
49-01-30 Blackstone 018 VanishingPearls 13:26
49-02-06 Blackstone 019 CurseOfTheYogi 13:17
49-02-13 Blackstone 020 CoinsOfCleopatra 13:52
49-02-20 Blackstone 021 HandOfCalousedRow 12:51
49-02-27 Blackstone 022 MessageFromNowhere 13:16
49-03-06 Blackstone 023 RiddleOfTheRedRose 13:12
49-03-13 Blackstone 024 AztecFireGod 13:18
49-03-20 Blackstone 025 MissingPalmist 13:21
49-03-27 Blackstone 026 LadderOfWealth 13:22
49-04-03 Blackstone 027 LockedBook 13:17
49-04-10 Blackstone 028 DeathlessShot 13:08
481003 TheGhostThatTrappedA.mp 11:47
481010 TheReluctantBuzzsaw.mp3 11:20
481017 TheEmeraldInTheFishb.mp 11:44
481024 Maharaja'sGold.mp3 11:16
481031 EducatedDummy.mp3 12:38
481107 RiddleOfTheTalkingSk.mp 12:49
481114 WhisperingBhudah.mp3 12:58
481121 OrganMurder.mp3 12:43
481128 GhostThatWasn't.mp3 12:59
481205 TheIcyTouch.mp3 13:06
481212 UnderwaterDeath.mp3 13:08
481219 CoinsOfConfucius.mp3 13:16
481226 MurderOnStage.mp3 13:03
490102 MidwayRobberies.mp3 13:11
490109 FrozenLady.mp3 13:03
490116 HoodedRider.mp3 12:57
490123 PhantomIntermezzo.mp3 13:11
490130 VanishingPearls.mp3 13:28
490206 CurseOfTheYogi.mp3 13:19
490213 CoinsOfCleopatra.mp3 13:54
490220 HandOfCalousedRow.mp3 12:53
490227 MessageFromNowhere.mp3 13:18
490306 RddleOfTheRedRose.mp3 13:14
490313 AztecFireGod.mp3 13:20
490320 MissingPalmist.mp3 13:23
490327 LadderOfWealth.mp3 13:24
490403 LockedBook.mp3 13:19
490410 DeathlessShot.mp3 13:09
490417 The Riddle of the Ot.mp 12:33
490424 The Cailini Statue.mp3 12:49
490501 The Curse of Kali.mp3 13:29
490508 Footsteps in the Nig.mp 12:03
490515 The VooDoo Treasure.mp3 12:44
490522 Four Keys To Crime.mp3 12:20
490529 The Knife From the D.mp 11:58
490605 eath in the Crystal.mp3 12:21
490612 The Hindu Sword Cabi.mp 12:14
490619 The Face of Death.mp3 12:17
490626 The Voice From the V.mp 12:06
490703 The Bird of Doom.mp3 12:08
490710 The Phantom Detectiv.mp 12:11
490717 The Riddle of the Se.mp 12:10
490724 Crime in the Stars.mp3 12:12
490731 The Devil's Cauldron.mp 12:11
490807 The Ghost in the Cry.mp 12:11
490814 The Accusing Corpse.mp3 12:14
490821 Death Defying Death.mp3 13:01
490828 The Criminal Who Cau.mp 12:36
490904 The Vanishing Brooch.mp 12:13
490911 Crimes on a MerryGoR.mp 12:09
490918 The Magic Writing.mp3 12:01
491009 The Mark of Crime.mp3 11:48
491016 The Creeping Death.mp3 9:29
500326 The Gory Goldfish.mp3 12:33
UU-UU-UU Blackstone SharkIslandStory 12:53

Reviews

Lightly entertaining. Fun magic tricks.


(4.5 stars)

Well acted. Each little story has instructions at the end for a little magic trick or mind twister to perform for entertaining others. The words are easy to understand, but the accompanying organ music is a bit annoying due to static.

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(5 stars)