The Whistler — 1946
55 episodes broadcast in 1946.
A man who married an old woman for her money finds himself in love with her young companion, and the thin line between infatuation and hate.
Fleeing her husband with another man, a woman runs down a pedestrian on the road -- her own husband.
Old Grandpa Randolph dies having hidden $200,000, leaving only a cryptic clue to where the fortune lies.
Hatred, jealousy, and murder plots -- just another day for one very strange family.
A body in a trunk and a desperate escape by sea.
A college professor's failing marriage climaxes on a foggy night when he finds his wife dead beside her crossword -- and the body will not stay put.
February 18, 1946
The Croupier's Wife
A man murders his wealthy wife in Florida and, with a suspicious detective shadowing him north, swaps identities with a famous mystery writer.
A doctor is torn between a beautiful woman, her gravely ill husband, and his Hippocratic oath.
Months after the 'Doorbell Killer' is executed, the one couple who knew the case's real secret can never tell -- and a woman heard only in her final scream haunts the tale.
A man schemes to poison his rich wife, using a phonograph record of typing to keep his hotel room from being disturbed.
The lawyer for the town's biggest crook realizes he is the only witness who can convict his own client.
A wife given every opportunity to kill her husband finds him frustrating her every attempt.
Freed after ten years, a man wages a slow campaign of fear against the accountant whose testimony sent him to prison.
A ring of blackmailers plots murder and a tangle of double-crosses, each hunting an alibi for the killing to come.
A family seething with hatred and jealousy has a large inheritance on the way -- just to sharpen the knives.
Uncle Harvey signs whatever is put before him without reading it, so the trick becomes getting the concert pianist to autograph a suicide note.
May 13, 1946
Mister Bidderoe's Mission
Arnold drowns his wife in the tub, only to have her ring his office afterward, alive and well.
May 27, 1946
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A movie star whose million-dollar looks are ruined in an accident plans a murder and must face the music.
Torn between the wife he resents and the woman he wants, Henry ends his quiet Sunday with a corpse in the trunk.
A jilted woman returns to her family's backwoods farm, where murder, conflict, and hidden money await.
Having quietly done away with his partner, a casino boss must now keep his richest customer contented and breathing, though only just.
A dignified financial manager, desperate for $9,500, murders the wealthy Boston widow who trusts him and steals her valuable earring.
Given three months to live and refused insurance, a man is offered $10,000 to hand over his wife -- and confess to a killing.
A thief lures a rich blonde out of a bar for her diamonds, but the setup goes wrong when she starts shooting.
A man who plans everything -- business, marriage, murder -- meets a detective named Conrad in a case of divorce, blackmail, and mismatched bullets.
A man steals his dying best friend's unpublished novel, reasoning the friend will not be around to notice.
Rather than let his wife walk out, Philip Linden silences her for good and crates the evidence off toward a mountain hideaway.
A husband is sure he has done away with his wife -- then gets word from her at the office.
A respectable businessman finally drowns the helplessly dependent wife he can no longer bear -- and then she phones him, alive.
After six years waiting for word of her brother, a woman greets his return -- and realizes the man is an impostor.
September 4, 1946
Where the Lines Cross
A columnist who plans his life to the minute commits a methodical murder -- in front of one silent witness.
A millionaire marries a carnival dancer and leaves her his fortune, so a roller coaster and an unbuckled seatbelt do the rest.
September 23, 1946
The Victim Smiled
September 30, 1946
The Man Who Never Was
Cast aside by the lovely young partner half his age, a fading hoofer convinces himself he has found the flawless way out.
When a poisoned old captain is buried, the sheriff sets his eye on two timid old-maid sisters and their peaches.
A murder and a woman on the run play out around a hidden casino (the show opens with Jack Benny's 'Fiddler' parody).
A chauffeur murders his wealthy employer and pins the crime on his two-timing mistress.
November 4, 1946
Return to the Sender
After long deliberation, Millie Parker chooses a rich life on the run over honest poverty, and crosses the line.
November 18, 1946
Kind Thought
A lawyer spends two patient years maneuvering a beautiful young woman into marrying his rich, elderly client -- and inheriting.
The Chicago version: cheated of his wife's inheritance when her father recovers, a husband gets a deadly idea atop a mule in the Grand Canyon.
The one killing a vacationing woman swears she saw points to the police commissioner himself, and then the supposed victim walks in very much alive.
December 16, 1946
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A newspaper editor working late on the Christmas edition proves to be prisoner number 56084, biding his time.
The killing on Rourke Island springs not from malice but from Keith Brandon's love for a young woman, Cathy Dunn.
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