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Mystery Theater: Boston Blackie: The Jonathan Diamond

22/12/2016

Boston Blackie: The Jonathan Diamond

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Mystery Theater, Boston Blackie: The Jonathan Diamond

The kind-hearted thief is called-upon to retrieve a gem.

4 Extra Debut. 1944: The kind-hearted thief is called-upon to retrieve a gem, but it proves not to be a simple robbery. Stars Chester Morris.

Kind-hearted thief, Boston Blackie is called-upon to retrieve a gem, but it proves not to be a simple robbery. 

Stars Chester Morris as the eponymous hero. 

Jewel thief and safecracker, Boston Blackie was created by author Jack Boyle. His books were adapted for radio, cinema and TV. His mantra is "an enemy to those who make him an enemy, a friend to those who have no friends". 

Boston Blackie ran on America's NBC Radio in 1944 sponsored by 'Rinso'. Unlike the concurrent films, Blackie had a steady romantic interest in the radio show with Lesley Woods as girlfriend Mary Wesley. 

Announcer: Harlow Wilcox. 

One of a series of selected shows from the golden days of American radio in the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers - often re-enacting their famous film roles.

First broadcast in the USA in 1944.

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