The Whistler — 1949
52 episodes broadcast in 1949.
A rooftop parking-lot announcer witnesses a policeman's murder and, instead of calling the law, tries a little blackmail.
A slick promoter stages a 'Frontier Week' in a sleepy former gold-rush town while romancing the leading citizen's fiancee.
A scheme to extort a valuable watch proves anything but profitable, thanks to a telltale engraving.
A timid New Haven professor, his marriage gone cold, is offered a fresh identity, a fortune, and a new life in Bermuda.
A nightclub singer married to an insanely jealous invalid plans to kill him by setting a fire while he sleeps.
A man needs $35,000 to be free of his scatterbrained rich wife -- and there is always the useful George Turner.
An aging prima donna, feeling the years, plots to disfigure her rising young rival.
A French girl hiding in a shabby bookshop lives in terror of the one man who wants her dead, and takes a strange interest in an accused Nazi.
An elderly couple murder their wealthy employer, then get a shock when the dead man's niece arrives from Australia.
A struggling reporter accidentally kills his drunken cousin while asking for a loan, then learns the death was overheard by phone.
Never blackmail a blackmailer -- a lesson played out on the ski slopes above a mountain lodge.
A convict called 'the Baron' hears words on visitor's day that hit him like an electric shock.
Down to her last few dollars in a Honolulu bar, a woman seizes a chance to pose as an heiress -- and the trouble that follows is easy to guess.
Who murdered Margo? The decisive evidence surfaces at exactly the wrong moment.
A scientist racing to cure sleeping sickness may have injected his own fiancee with a fatal dose, as a fortune-teller's words come true.
A man wakes after an explosion wearing a wealthy stranger's face, takes over his life, and is blackmailed by the surgeon who made it possible.
A fishing-village storekeeper uses murder to remove a rival for his girl, certain no one would ever suspect such a solid citizen.
A lonely young engineer is picked up off the street by a beautiful, wealthy woman -- and walks into murder.
A successful attorney kept afloat by his wife's money kills her, with predictable results.
In Hong Kong, a man who can mimic any voice is drawn into a plot to divert an airliner and its $250,000 cargo.
A jealous reporter hunts whoever tried to murder him -- the same rival who has designs on his wife.
A mine partner finally meets his pen-pal sweetheart, who turns out to be both beautiful and rich.
A washed-up, self-serving investigator figures a well-placed killing and a well-timed wedding can set him up for life.
Cast away on a Pacific island, a woman and three men face grim arithmetic: the sea home has room for only two.
A hunting-trip gunshot proves no accident in a tangled story of love, marriage, and murder.
A mild bookshop owner devises a theory of murders committed in alphabetical order -- and a chance to kill his beloved's obnoxious brother.
A prominent lawyer, quietly running rackets alongside his half-brother and smitten with the man's girl, still refuses to give him an alibi for murder.
A man films his girlfriend murdering his wife, in a scheme with several unexpected twists.
A man is sure his hermit friend still has the money he embezzled, and races the friend's visiting niece to find it.
Each week another note reaches a wealthy Egyptologist, promising that the murder he committed will be repaid on its grim anniversary.
A brilliant young lawyer builds a career on acquittals for a notorious gambler, until the payoff comes due.
A man does away with his lover and pins it on her husband -- who happens to be his own business partner.
A gangster on the run hides aboard a ship under a false name, undone by a doctor who knew him and by a coffin.
A chance bar encounter pulls a down-and-out drifter into a spiral of killing, extortion, and betrayal.
A schemer working a married man for blackmail cash cuts out her own accomplice, then finds someone has beaten her to her victim.
A microphone-weary announcer recruits an ex-convict from the engineering booth to help him be rid of his wife.
A maid in England schemes to make off with her mistress's paintings and let luckless Henry take the fall.
The pal a hauler trusts most is betraying him twice over: with his wife, and with a plot to hijack his rig.
When a gifted Italian forger turns up dead, the pair of thieving art dealers he served are left holding two of his fakes.
A young concert pianist's plan to quit and marry threatens to expose the $100,000 her guardians embezzled from her.
On the ice, a skating partner vows the rival will never wed the woman they both want, and the triangle turns lethal.
Prosperous and respectable, Morley Jackson buried his past -- and will do anything to pry an incriminating letter from the blackmailer who found it.
A lonely woman overhears a murder and a stolen $30,000 necklace, then meets the killer on the train and schemes to profit.
Having quietly poisoned his first wife without consequence, Mr. Devlin sees no reason the method should not serve for the second.
To be free of a former flame turned blackmailer, a man throttles her and hides what remains in a sea cave.
A clever scheme smuggles forged Aaron Burr letters out of prison via released inmates, until a paroled man catches on.
Aboard a transcontinental train, a bill-forger crosses paths with an enigmatic woman wearing stolen jewels and shadowed by two hard cases.
Stumbling on an abandoned car holding a dead man and $50,000 in stolen payroll, a lawyer is pressed by his girlfriend, for reasons of her own, to keep the cash.
A club singer plots to get rid of the tough who has muscled in on the Swan Club, from a bright, well-appointed apartment.
A sculptor with no gift of his own passes off a hired hand's work to charm an elderly patroness into signing over half her estate.
On Christmas Eve, an interning doctor must decide whether to save the life of the man he has every reason to hate.
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