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The basic premise for the series went back to film and magazine stories about Boston Blackie. [1] Frederick Ziv, the company's owner, wanted to make Boston Blackie the company's first syndicated TV series, but popularity of the Hopalong Cassidy TV show led him to produce The Cisco Kid first. [2]
Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881–1928). Blackie was originally depicted as a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, and became a private detective in adaptations for films, radio and television where he was described as an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."
From 1945 to 1950, Kollmar portrayed Boston Blackie on the radio program of the same name, a Ziv-produced syndicated series which mostly ran on Mutual Broadcasting System stations. [7] He also had lead roles in other radio shows including Gang Busters, Grand Central Station and the soap opera Bright Horizon. [8] [9]
This is a list of television shows set in Boston, Massachusetts: Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Ally McBeal American Gothic ...
Richard Lane (May 28, 1899 – September 5, 1982), sometimes known as Dick Lane, was an American actor and television announcer/presenter.In movies, he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds.
John Chester Brooks Morris (February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970) was an American stage, film, television, and radio actor. He had some prestigious film roles early in his career, and received an Academy Award nomination for Alibi (1929).
Goldwyn made only a few films a year, so he loaned Cochran to Columbia Pictures for Booked on Suspicion (1945), a Boston Blackie movie. Goldwyn then put him in Wonder Man (1945), a Danny Kaye movie co-starring Virginia Mayo and Vera-Ellen in which Cochran played a gangster.
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