The Whistler — 1943
51 episodes broadcast in 1943.
An honest district attorney faces an impossible choice when the evidence in a murder points straight at his own spineless son.
A magician and hypnotist is pressed into a five-day errand to recover a fortune, shadowed by a prophecy that his great career is about to end.
A woman meets, for the first time, the grown son she gave up years before -- in a story that twists around them both.
A man receives telepathic pleas from an author he has never met, and his hunt for the missing manuscript turns up fresh graves and screams in the night.
A celebrated defense attorney who has never lost a case clashes with a gangster -- who then turns up stabbed to death with a letter opener.
Aboard their yacht, a blind shipbuilder and his unfaithful wife play out a deadly game.
A young woman fears she has inherited her family's murderous streak -- or has someone convinced her that she has?
A meek bank clerk, fired after twenty years, is certain his flawless scheme will net him $50,000 and a new life on a Brazilian beach.
February 28, 1943
?? Title Unknown ??
March 7, 1943
Purely Coincidental
March 14, 1943
The Trap
March 21, 1943
Death at Dawn
A dying rich man pays a struggling lawyer to draft a secret will, drawing the attorney into a tangle involving the man's twin brother.
April 4, 1943
Swamp Rats
April 11, 1943
Five Bullets
April 18, 1943
Voice of Death
An axe-murderer judged insane escapes custody and turns up alone with three women and a thousand dollars on an isolated farm.
A restaging of the desert-island triangle that spirals into madness and drink.
A cruel New England matriarch opposes her son's every romance, so his sudden attraction to her new secretary-companion may prove fatal.
May 22, 1943
Man from India
A hunting trip in a lonely canyon ends in a gunshot -- and a death that was no accident.
A retired brain surgeon experimenting with tissue transplants is strangely determined that his daughter never marry.
On a wartime Midwest farm, an aging widower's young city bride and his eccentric son become entangled in a triangle laced with arsenic.
In an abandoned villa, a love triangle collapses into bloodshed.
A desperate man paces his office, racing time itself against a blank wall he cannot get past.
A miner, murdered and buried, returns from the grave to take his revenge on the brother who wronged him.
A scientist lures four suspects in his brother's murder onto his yacht and vows none will reach land until one confesses -- amid corpses and time bombs.
July 23, 1943
?? Title Unknown ??
July 30, 1943
Necrophobia
August 6, 1943
Partners in Crime
A gangster frames one of his own men and sends the man's wife to prison, but the double-cross circles back on him.
August 27, 1943
Summer Night
A newly jobless bookkeeper heads west to buy into a mine and lands squarely between a $10,000 windfall and a lynch mob.
A wealthy widow's plan to keep her fortune in the family by marrying off her two wards founders when each already loves someone else.
A weak, wealthy young man kills someone while driving drunk, and a supposed friend turns the accident into blackmail.
A restaging of the tale of a lawyer, the nightclub owner who made him, and the woman scorned when he marries elsewhere.
October 10, 1943
As the Chimes Rang
October 17, 1943
Draught of Death
October 24, 1943
A Woman and a House
October 31, 1943
Circumstance
November 7, 1943
The Urge
November 14, 1943
The Best Laid Plans
Stranded by a snowstorm, travelers take shelter with a man who believes he is a doctor -- and his very strange family.
December 5, 1943
The Twin
December 12, 1943
Devil Goes to Paradise
A couple caught in a storm shelter with a strange old woman and her son, who, it emerges, have been dead for ten years.
December 26, 1943
Murder Has an Alibi
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