The Whistler — 1948
56 episodes broadcast in 1948.
A recovering alcoholic actor gets one last shot at a Broadway comeback, until his scheming understudy nudges him off the wagon and toward murder.
On a modern dairy ranch, a bitter quarrel between partners curdles into a Grade-A killing.
Desperate for publicity, a painter guns down his model and dresses it up as suicide, then a strange dealer turns up with a stranger scheme.
A hard-bitten woman reporter, newly divorced and rejected by her boyfriend, is swept into a murder accusation and a night at the circus.
A love affair struck up while swimming off Cape Ann turns into a plotted offshore murder and a double-double-cross.
A man with two wives concludes that only killing can free him of one of them.
A bookshop clerk offers to aid a reporter crusading against 'Murder Incorporated' -- for a reason that clinches the tale.
A real-estate man his wife made successful reaches his boiling point over another woman, a bridge, and murder.
A washed-up actor whose career was killed by ten inches of newsprint plots a very personal return engagement.
A lovesick teenager sets off a chain of events leading to murder, and stays untouched herself.
A brilliant attorney who just won a forger's acquittal may have killed the prosecutor -- or has he?
A desperate journalist hunts the reclusive Havana author J.C. Raven, and with a talented secretary's help sets out to assume the writer's identity.
A drab, respectable stockbroker throws over his humdrum life for romance in Florida, and the right pressures turn him toward murder.
The wife of a dying man knowingly overpays a swindling dealer for manuscripts she is well aware are forgeries.
A blocked novelist stumbles on an unknown writer's masterpiece and decides the surest byline is one whose author is dead.
Ten years after his glory days, a flyer comes back to a sweltering South American town and gets a decidedly unwelcome reception.
A woman tangled up with a criminal sentenced to twenty years watches large sums change hands, and a murder follow.
A pilot takes a Caribbean salvage job offered by the husband of the woman he loves, and learns how close love runs to hate.
A philandering stockbroker double-crossed by his girlfriend comes to on a park bench with murder flooding back.
May 26, 1948
Bird of Prey
The heir who comes back for his share is met with cold certainty by his step-sister: this man, she insists, is a fraud.
June 9, 1948
Brass Ring
A violinist murders to possess a priceless instrument, and on the brink of fame is dogged by an odd little figure in a striped suit.
June 30, 1948
Silent City
A con man out for a big score with his old cellmate falls for his friend's girl, and does not reckon on an unusual roommate.
A businessman takes $50,000 in exchange for agreeing to be killed within two years, and slowly realizes whose story it really is.
July 21, 1948
Fatal Appointment
A woman plans to murder her husband and start over with her music teacher, choosing a departing ocean liner as the ideal place.
A Hollywood star is thrown into panic when an old cafe is set for demolition and its contents auctioned -- for a very good reason.
A new bride slowly, like a gathering storm, uncovers what became of her husband's first wife.
The 'Strangler,' who usually favors a silk stocking, this time reaches for a piece of rope -- and for a grieving painter.
August 18, 1948
A Question of Murder
Moving into a dead man's flat, a fellow turns up $35,000 in cash -- and then the previous tenant, who proves to be very much breathing.
A crooked politician is blackmailed by his equally crooked secretary and her crooked boyfriend.
A criminal lawyer who murdered his wife ends up defending the very man he set up for it.
An auto accident hands a woman a profitable idea, until a blackmailer turns up with ideas of his own.
An odd woman commissions her portrait just as a stroke leaves her husband paralyzed and she can no longer walk.
While reporting on an approaching flood, a newsman turns the looming catastrophe into cover for killing the ex-wife he despises.
Twin foals are bred to be a winner and a loser, while Sergeant Joe Friday works to break up a roving gambling ring.
Pulled from a wreck, a dazed survivor is talked into passing himself off as a shrewd woman's husband for a cut of the money.
Two women vie for the same doctor; the wealthy, ruthless one holds the advantage, but the other holds her sedatives.
Three strangers are marked for death, and the puzzle is what connects them.
A hardware dealer who broke out of prison decades ago is cornered by his son-in-law's blackmailing butler.
When her estranged sister is found a suicide, a woman fears the man they both loved may be responsible.
A fleeing bank embezzler hides out in a supposedly deserted estate that proves far from empty.
A beautiful new housekeeper quietly sows discord in a wealthy British couple's marriage.
An ex-con pianist takes a job at a tough gambler's lakeside resort and falls for the owner's wife, amid a knife fight and a wreck.
Fleeing an embezzlement charge, a man picks up a hitchhiking fugitive and dangles work at a lonely mine, with dark motives of his own.
A doctor's wife has a secret past known only to a drunken reporter, until the reporter's accident leaves the doctor the only man who can save him.
Bored on a snowbound cross-country train, a man falls in with a beautiful woman, a talkative reporter, and $100,000 marked for death.
A hostess in a Panama City cantina, safe for five quiet months, is pulled into a robbery and murder.
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