The Whistler — 1954
52 episodes broadcast in 1954.
January 3, 1954
Squeeze Play
In Hong Kong, a man who can mimic any voice is drawn into a plot to divert an airliner and its $250,000 cargo.
January 17, 1954
The Set Up
A Broadway producer broke after two flops fakes a jewelry robbery to bankroll his next play, and rings down the curtain with his wife's murder.
A nightclub co-owner schemes to make the club's hot-headed Latin dancer jealous enough to threaten -- and remove -- his partner.
In the London fog, an expatriate American who has killed for money holds the forged travel papers a shadowy figure is hunting -- while a Scotland Yard man takes a room down the hall.
February 14, 1954
Helping Hand
February 21, 1954
Forgotten City
An embezzler hunting the $75,000 his late prison acquaintance hid gets a shock at the funeral home -- the man in the casket is not who he expected.
A diplomat from abroad is shot by mistake at a secluded lodge, risking a global crisis and upending a scheming aide's plans.
A confidence man out to steal a wealthy widow's necklace throws over his partner posing as his sister when the widow falls for him.
Convinced he has killed an unknown woman in a high-rise apartment, a man runs to a friend who proves to be the actual murderer.
April 4, 1954
Tell Tale Hedges
April 11, 1954
Time and the Place
After her father dies and his young widow weds the attorney behind the will, a woman becomes sure the two killed him and mean to kill her.
A newspaper columnist claws her way to the top over the boss she pushed to his death.
May 2, 1954
Cardboard Fortune
A penniless Oxford man loses his heart to a gangster's girl -- the tough guy's sole heir.
A jeweler's secretary, in love with her married employer, comes to see his gravely ill wife as the last thing standing in her way.
A woman scrambling to cover $4,000 she embezzled comes into one of the dolls being used to smuggle diamonds, and finds one is not nearly enough.
The buried truth about why he settled in Cutlerville catches up with a onetime private eye when a woman from Seattle recognizes him.
A woman overhears a murder and a fortune in a Kansas City hotel, then deals herself in as the killer's partner.
A woman and her lover blow up her business partner's boat for the inheritance, but the body is never found.
June 20, 1954
Thirteen Black
June 27, 1954
Reluctant Witness
July 4, 1954
Man on the Stairway
The classic trunk murder, with complications, in a hot and crooked corner of jolly England.
A company treasurer's to-do list: rob the firm, win the boss's daughter, and get rid of his roommate.
Certain his rich uncle's check is on the way, a man quietly dips into the payroll for $10,000 -- then the uncle is in a crash.
August 8, 1954
Information Witheld
August 15, 1954
Perilous Retainer
On a foggy day in Pisa, a stranger slips a valuable necklace into a woman's pocket, and a jewel-thief partnership ends in murder.
Aunt Agnes means to tear down the old wall, and only sleeping powders in her cocoa can stop her -- because of what the wall hides.
September 5, 1954
Smash-Up
A songwriter's growing hatred of his lyricist partner boils over when both love the same girl.
September 26, 1954
End of the Road
A dying man's letter naming his niece sole heir vanishes, leaving her the prime suspect when he is poisoned before changing his will.
A gangster hiding aboard an ocean liner under a false name leaves the ship -- in a coffin.
October 24, 1954
The Pavillion
October 31, 1954
The Hangtree Affair
November 7, 1954
Old Hackett House
November 14, 1954
Murder at Twin Pines
November 21, 1954
Clayton Affair
November 28, 1954
Seattle Take Three
December 5, 1954
Warm Reception
After railroading an innocent man to a murder conviction, a hard-driving prosecutor is drawn into a lethal tangle of his own.
December 19, 1954
Ticket to Murder
December 26, 1954
The Dark Room
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