The Whistler — 1947
72 episodes broadcast in 1947.
A tense, near-silent dinner between husband and wife hides a dread that neither will name.
A Chinatown tale of forgery and murder builds to a shot fired from a rooftop.
For an aging star, murdering her husband is staged like a scene she has run a hundred times, until the double-cross turns on her.
After doing away with his wife, a man hides the corpse in the building's elevator, and is unnerved when it will not stay where he left it.
A feud between a drama critic and a playwright escalates, step by step, to murder.
Murder aboard a gambling ship, with the dead man locked inside the safe.
The East Coast retelling of the critic-and-playwright feud that ends in murder.
Two dishonest art dealers are outfoxed by a brilliant Italian forger.
A crime reporter fired from his paper kills his old boss, then must silence an innocent witness, and needs an airtight alibi.
A schemer talks his way into half of a rich Alaskan gold mine, then gets the germ of an idea for murder.
Jealousy and murder play out along Broadway's Great White Way.
March 12, 1947
A Woman's Privilege
A spotlight-hungry bank clerk chasing high society is pulled into a sandwich-shop holdup and murder, then strikes a bargain with the gunman.
March 19, 1947
Miracle on 49th Street
A killing in Omaha, a westbound train, and a fortune in smuggled diamonds all come down to one woman and the key she carries.
March 26, 1947
Lady with a Knife
A reformed convict watches his daughter's society wedding draw near, just as the household butler decides it is a fine moment to demand hush money.
The Pacific retelling of the critic-and-playwright feud that ends in murder.
A man kills the clinging woman who threatens his wife's half-million inheritance, claiming he never left his bedroom for a week.
April 9, 1947
Sheriff's Assistant
A radio actress murders her rival on the eve of the woman's wedding -- and is stunned to see her own lover charged with the crime.
April 16, 1947
Maid of Honor
George despised his Aunt Irene and wanted her dead, so when she is murdered his alibi simply will not hold.
April 23, 1947
Backlash
Basking in a triumphant opening, a dancer learns the ballerina whose career he wrecked means to even the score, so he resolves to silence her first.
April 30, 1947
Black Book
Poised to jump from a bridge, a man instead finds a body below and, on it, a checkbook flush with $104,000.
May 7, 1947
Windfall
A mild-mannered teacher takes a quiet house by the shore, all the while laying meticulous plans to be rid of his wife.
May 14, 1947
18 Burden Lane
A professor tries a little blackmail after discovering his department head plagiarized a dead graduate student's research.
May 21, 1947
Hasty Conclusion
A mild accountant finds $40,000 through a mailbox mix-up, and a murder follows when the rightful owner upstairs will not let it go.
May 28, 1947
Fateful Friday
A gangster who suspects his wife of an affair resolves to kill her lover -- a dangerous plan for a hemophiliac.
June 4, 1947
Caesar's Wife
A quiet town still winces at the night of mob violence stirred by its most beloved citizen, 'Uncle Josh,' who had his own motives.
June 11, 1947
Judgement
Murder invades the diplomatic service, delivered as poisoned Roquefort in the diplomatic pouch.
June 18, 1947
Ambassador of Death
A researcher poisons a colleague's mind to make the man do his murderous work for him.
June 25, 1947
The Gentle Way
July 2, 1947
The Big Pitch
Racing through the night, Colby Fletcher spots a lone walker and sees the last piece of his plan to vanish by faking his own death.
Having stabbed the man extorting her, a rich woman is then seated on the jury judging an innocent accused of the deed.
July 23, 1947
Stolen Empire
A Singapore correspondent paid $50,000 to plant a false story is fired before he can file it, and decides to murder his replacement.
Flush with $30,000 in stolen bills, a man cannot shake the dread stirred by a carnival seer, one blind to the murder waiting in his own future.
Acquitted of murder but still whispered about by the town, a woman decides to frame the gardener to silence the gossip.
A fading movie star sets her sights on marrying a wealthy admirer -- if his sister does not stop her first.
On the Broadway boards, an actor flirts with real death, then steps back into the footlights to accept the applause.
A British workingman romances a rich woman on his wife's savings, and a foregone-conclusion murder trial springs a surprise.
Facing dismissal over a padded expense account, a museum man adds a killing to the collection.
September 17, 1947
Death and the Emperor
A woman jealous of her employer and the woman's prize Persian cat plots a foolproof murder with catnip and a loose gas jet.
As a tearoom seer's prophecy edges toward truth, a bride-to-be grasps that her scientist fiance has made her the test subject for his sleeping-sickness serum.
October 1, 1947
The Other Hand
An ambitious businessman delivers a stirring speech on safe driving, then is promptly caught in a hit-and-run, followed by blackmail and murder.
Sure he has found a gullible buyer for a faked Renaissance cabinet, a smooth antiques dealer has picked precisely the wrong mark.
Tried for murdering the wife who denied him a divorce, a shrewd lawyer mounts almost no defense at all -- for a reason all his own.
Murder at an isolated Alaskan hunting lodge replays in a man's mind as he attempts a desperate escape.
November 12, 1947
Stolen Chance
A draftsman putting on a big front while awaiting promotion commits murder to steal the invention he is working on.
A long-struggling actor's big break arrives at last, and only his ex-wife stands between him and the role.
A body floats up carrying a five-thousand-pound cheque -- killed by a fountain pen.
December 3, 1947
Professor and the Fox
A man steered into a club bar by a colleague is drawn toward an astonishing death by fire-extinguisher fumes.
On the eve of her wedding to John Gray, Chris's happiness is shattered when Marion suddenly appears.
A man murders his wealthy Florida wife and, tailed north by a suspicious detective, takes on the identity of a famous mystery writer.
A doctor covers for the woman he suspects poisoned her angina-stricken husband -- a decision beyond logic.
A young couple plans to marry against the wishes of a shrewd, wealthy uncle who knows human nature all too well.
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