The Whistler — 1951
52 episodes broadcast in 1951.
Fleeing her husband for another man, a woman runs down a pedestrian in the dark -- her own husband.
Fresh out of prison, a man joins a bank-robbery gang, then plots his own treachery when he learns they mean to double-cross him.
A schemer boards with the Randolph sisters to hunt the $200,000 said to be buried on their land.
A con man who lived by his wits stakes everything on the fortune old Grandpa Randolph hid before he died.
An Orient pilot deep in debt to 'Burma Charlie' plots to kill his co-pilot by sabotaging the oxygen supply.
A newspaper columnist claws her way to the top over the boss she pushed to his death.
A flood threatens the very building whose insurance premiums the crooked city treasurer pocketed.
A paroled convict out to get the man who framed him is himself marked for death by that man's girlfriend.
An embezzler robs and kills the man gathering proof against him, then flees past the caretaker straight into trouble.
A love triangle carries its jealousies up a mountainside, where a single climbing rope decides who comes back down.
An Australian radio operator arrives to visit an old friend and finds the man's body in his own sea trunk.
Certain his wife is unfaithful, a man sets out to murder her and lay the blame squarely on his business partner.
Little things -- cut-off conversations, odd phone calls -- push a husband to suspect his wife and partner, and toward murder.
A failing lumberyard owner's perfect murder is undone by a ten-year-old's school composition.
A crook returns to collect his $30,000 cut in diamonds from the old flame who wronged him.
A crooked businessman plants a time bomb on the plane carrying his partner to give evidence against him in Washington.
A woman who seems to be getting away with her husband's murder appears set to get away with a second one, in a strange close-knit household.
After fourteen years planning to marry her boss, a secretary sets out to sabotage his engagement to another woman.
At the swank Club Carlos, a co-owner readies poison for the woman competing for their partner's affection.
To be rid of the sister-in-law who wants his marriage wrecked, a man recruits a former convict for the killing.
A thief with $30,000 tries to slip out of Los Angeles by answering an ad for a ride to Seattle.
With a solid alibi in place, a man is rid of the wife he left -- but a gaunt stranger saw him slip away.
An advertising man turns a novelty, the car telephone, into the means of killing his partner on a storm-lashed canyon road.
A private eye picks up the wrong trench coat, stumbles onto a blackmail scheme, and falls for the victim.
Jealousy and murder on Broadway's Great White Way.
In the crumbling family mansion, a man schemes to do away with his aunt and hang the crime on an aging seaman.
A brilliant, arrogant architect commits a murder in front of one silent witness.
A shifty talent agent gambles a forgotten silent-era star's comeback on one outrageous publicity stunt.
A restless young engineer is picked up by a beautiful, wealthy woman -- and walks into murder.
Cheating on his rich wife, a man engineers a lethal 'mishap' for the friend who has learned too much.
Handed the run of a high-end jewelry shop, a gambler is dunned for a $10,000 debt at the worst possible moment.
August 19, 1951
Sequel to Death
A studio photographer in love with his boss tries to kill his rival -- and is hailed as a hero instead.
An escaped convict turned prosperous merchant is blackmailed on the eve of his daughter's wedding.
With his mistress bound for Brazil, a man judges the moment right to be rid of his wife.
September 23, 1951
The Third Grave
Competing for the same valuable bill of lading, two sharp operators size each other up aboard a train and strike an uneasy partnership.
October 7, 1951
Wedding Bouquet
Two partners kill their way toward the priceless dagger of Louis XIV.
Two double-crossers scheme over the contents of a Singapore safe-deposit box -- he has the papers, she has the key.
One prized volume is worth any price to a shady rare-book dealer, a corpse or two included.
An escaped murderer keeps one jump ahead of the law until an airplane offers a sure way out.
It begins with a woman flagging down a car on a rain-soaked midnight road and builds toward the death she wants her boyfriend to arrange for her rich husband.
November 18, 1951
Love Match
The old landmark tree on the Clay estate has kept a killing's secret buried among its roots.
A Seattle cop-killer returns to the old girlfriend holding his $50,000 -- and she has plans of her own.
A writer murders his secretary while supposedly resting in a sanitarium, until a nightclub photo places him at the scene.
A merchant sailor comes home to find his sweetheart married to a miserly lobster-boat captain -- and murder follows on the high seas.
In a shabby Panama City cantina on Christmas Eve, a chanteuse recounts how she came to be running from a gangster.
A crooked contractor kills the foreman about to expose him, then faces a night watchman with blackmail in mind.
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