[3] Characters heard regularly on the show were Blackie, Mary Wesley (his girlfriend), and police inspector Faraday.
[1] Media critic John Crosby wrote that Blackie had "no visible means of support" and that "He solves crimes apparently more for the fun of it than for sordid cash.
[8] The cast was different from the NBC version, with Richard Kollmar as Blackie, Maurice Tarplin as Farraday, and Jan Miner as Mary.
[1] By November 1945, Boston Blackie was running on 52-week contracts on some stations, including WJZ in New York[10] and WTMJ in Milwaukee.
[12] Tim DeForest wrote in the book Radio by the Book: Adaptations of Literature and Fiction on the Airwaves that writers were so focused on establishing characters and ambience that many of the plots in the NBC version had illogical portions; writers were "so determined to show us how clever Blackie is that they sacrificed basic story construction along the way.