released 1951 detective/mystery/comedy tv show
Adventures of Boston Blackie: So Was Goliath
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released 1951 mystery detective tv show
“enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friends”
Boston Blackie was a jailbird, but he got out and has gone legit. Well, sort of legit anyway. He is on the right side of the law, but just barely. Now he is a private detective with a fondness for the quick quip or the quick upper right. His intelligence was sharply contrasted with the idiocy of the police department, led by Inspector Faraday.
Boston Blackie started in silent movies, then a series of (at best) B movies, starting with “Meet Boston Blackie” in 1941, from there he moved to radio in 1944, and then onto television.
Kent Taylor starred in the Ziv-produced half-hour TV series The Adventures of Boston Blackie. Syndicated in September 1951, it ran for 58 episodes, continuing in repeats over the following decade. Lois Collier appeared as Mary Wesley and Frank Orth was Inspector Farraday. The series was set in Los Angeles; Mary and Blackie had a dog named Whitie, and comedy sometimes took precedence over crime.
Television historian Tim Brooks described Boston Blackie as "a memorable B-grade television series … The term 'B' is used in all the best senses: a certain vitality and sense of humor substituted more than adequately for the normal criteria of expensive production and famous stars."
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