The Whistler — 1952
52 episodes broadcast in 1952.
A man who married a rich widow for her money plots to kill both his wife and the brother-in-law onto his affair, so he can wed his secret lover.
January 13, 1952
Man from the Morgue
The disgraced son of a late mill owner returns to his West Coast hometown to claim his inheritance -- and must first 'prove' himself.
A Singapore correspondent paid $50,000 to plant a false story is fired before he can file it, and decides to murder his replacement.
A scheme to extort a valuable engraved watch proves anything but profitable.
A man becomes obsessed with the mystery of a woman who killed a man in a Panama alley -- and the little red book she keeps hidden.
A young concert pianist's plan to quit and marry threatens to expose the $100,000 her guardians embezzled from her.
A meticulous man tries to have his partner killed by a hired gun, then is forced to kill the killer.
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.
A hit-and-run driver whose instinct is always to run makes try after try to break out of jail.
A swindler who killed twice to keep the loot from his last job is undone by a television quiz show.
A resort ski instructor angling to marry a wealthy guest is thrown when his German ex-wife turns up working as a waitress.
A man frames his stepbrother for murder, and three years later the stepbrother escapes prison for revenge.
A blackmailing lawyer fails to reckon with the unknown factor -- 'Element X.'
April 13, 1952
Prescription for Death
April 20, 1952
Respected Citizen
A young doctor is left to face the shame after his best friend flees a drunken auto crash.
A woman tangled up with a criminal sentenced to twenty years watches large sums change hands, and a murder follow.
Everything is a calculation of odds to a hustler -- including pocketing the winning lottery ticket a drunk let slip, then vanishing before the number is called.
On the run and posing as an elderly tourist's companion in Italy, a thief is slipped a costly necklace by a tour guide every bit as crooked.
A reclusive society wife is horrified to be blackmailed by the woman who once went to prison in her place.
A cheap detective hired to unmask a wife's lover pockets her pistol and sets her up once the husband turns up dead.
An old-time hoodlum trying to leave the life behind is run to ground by a former associate carrying troubles of his own.
June 22, 1952
The Way Out
A grounded, hard-up flyer smooth-talks his way into a $25,000 charter, and the betrayals climb as fast as the plane.
A city's political boss and newspaper publisher finds that love and politics are both played for keeps.
July 13, 1952
The Hunted
July 20, 1952
Perfect Secretary
Free on $10,000 bail, a gambler decides the way to shake the law is to kill a man who could pass for him.
An ex-con hunting $250,000 buried on a resort island learns he is not the only one after it.
Facing prison over $40,000 he gambled away, a Havana chemist throws in with a perilous woman to run smuggled cortisone.
August 17, 1952
Nice Boy
A woman who married for citizenship, planning to divorce and bring over her lover, is blackmailed -- and turns to a poisonous African plant.
August 31, 1952
Flight 13
A captain lost at sea twenty-five years ago washes up alive near his widow's home, dazed and speaking of an old shipwreck.
September 14, 1952
Framwork for Murder
September 21, 1952
The Deal
September 28, 1952
Reunion in Algiers
Like a chemical catalyst, a seventeen-year-old girl on a Miami Beach terrace sets off a violent reaction she never takes part in.
A man paces his living room, unable to look away from a large dark stain spreading across the carpet.
An assistant DA wins a conviction he knows is false to advance his career, after apparently killing the real culprit.
November 2, 1952
Perfect Alibi
November 9, 1952
Gentle Conspiracy
A rising attorney who owes his career to a nightclub owner unleashes a jilted woman's fury by marrying the DA's daughter.
A blast meant to be fatal leaves both his partner and the plans for a $50,000 invention intact, to a schemer's dismay.
A songwriter plots to murder his lyricist partner when both fall for the same girl, and the lyrics tell the tale.
December 7, 1952
Appointment on the High Seas
Fired from a department store after $10,000 goes missing, an ex-convict figures he might as well steal for real -- until a music box turns his luck.
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