The Whistler — 1942
33 episodes broadcast in 1942.
An axe-murderer who killed his wife and stepson for her hidden cash breaks out of prison and returns to the eerie old house to dig up the money -- but the house has plans of its own.
May 23, 1942
Release
May 30, 1942
Song of the Sea
June 6, 1942
Eye of the Storm
A young heiress crosses the country to live with the crippled uncle she has never met, and finds his mansion, his secretary, and his collection of shrunken heads stranger than she bargained for.
June 20, 1942
Curse
An airplane-plant official is being driven toward madness -- and murder -- by something that stalks his sleep in the lonely house during the nightly storms.
July 4, 1942
The Curse
July 11, 1942
The Draught of the Death
July 18, 1942
Cold Fury
July 25, 1942
Voice in the Dark
August 1, 1942
Gray Gables
August 8, 1942
The Ghost Light
August 15, 1942
The Boomerang
Marooned on a desert island, a love triangle curdles into madness and drink.
Is Hans Minkler an Austrian fighting the Nazis, or a Nazi himself? An espionage puzzle set in a Europe sliding toward war.
A good-natured man, cheated and cornered by his grasping relatives, comes to suspect he is marked for murder -- and hatches an idea of his own.
A rising attorney owes his law degree to the nightclub owner who bankrolled it, so his engagement to the DA's daughter unleashes a jilted woman's fury.
A fisherman surfaces from a spell of amnesia to learn he has killed an enemy -- with no memory of the deed.
Convinced her husband means to murder her for another woman, an ailing wife resolves to strike first.
As wartime production pressure mounts, a factory owner's blackout spells grow more frequent -- and more dangerous to the partner who trusts him.
Dr. Benton is bent on grooming one son to inherit his surgery; the boy's rebellion, and a shared attraction to a girl he deems beneath them, drives the household to ruin.
A manufacturer whose conscience is clean dreams that death will find him in two days' time, and the hours start proving the dream right.
Twenty years under his rich, domineering wife's thumb have left a failed artist with nothing -- and several people around her with reason to want her dead.
November 1, 1942
If I Should Die
November 8, 1942
Unknown Journey
As a dying widow's relatives circle her fortune, her late husband's ghost returns with firm opinions about how the estate should be divided.
Facing divorce, a scorned wife plots revenge on the secretary she blames for stealing her husband.
A gambler who married into money is deep in debt to the wrong people, and his suspicious wealthy wife may be his only way out -- with a little help from arsenic.
December 6, 1942
?? Title Unknown ??
A ne'er-do-well bank clerk has embezzled from the till, and his equally shady stepfather refuses to cover for him as a surprise audit looms.
December 20, 1942
?? Title Unknown ??
On Christmas Eve, a reformed ex-con living with his detective brother-in-law becomes the prime suspect in a robbery.
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