The Whistler — 1955
38 episodes broadcast in 1955.
January 2, 1955
Autumn Song
January 9, 1955
Jackson Street Affair
January 16, 1955
Flee from Evil
A man who kills his wife finds himself 'partners' with the next-door neighbor who saw it all -- and the victim adds a twist.
January 30, 1955
The Late Mister Phelps
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 man who murdered a shipmate and staged it as suicide is horrified when a stranger boards posing as the dead man.
A ring of blackmailers plots murder and a tangle of double-crosses, each hunting an alibi for the killing to come.
Twenty years under his rich, domineering wife's thumb have left a failed artist with nothing -- and several people with reason to want her dead.
A drama critic and a columnist move through seven distinct steps from cordial acquaintance to murder.
A chauffeur consumed by his affair with the mistress of the house kills its master and arranges for the faithless woman to take the fall.
A captain washes ashore reporting his ship just wrecked -- but that ship went down twenty-five years ago.
A clever scheme smuggles forged Aaron Burr letters out of prison via released inmates.
A beautiful new housekeeper quietly sows discord in a wealthy British couple's marriage.
After doing away with his wife, a man hides the corpse in the building's elevator, and is unnerved when it will not stay where he left it.
On a Jamaican sugar estate, one partner plots to kill and pin it on his co-owner's son -- until he falls in love.
May 26, 1955
Maid of Honor
A young couple plan to marry against a shrewd, wealthy uncle's wishes, in a story that ends at a lodge on New Year's Eve.
Two dishonest art dealers are outfoxed by a brilliant Italian forger.
Racing through the night, Colby Fletcher spots a lone walker and sees the last piece of his plan to vanish by faking his own death.
A woman tangled up with a criminal sentenced to twenty years watches large sums change hands, and a murder follow.
Murder at an isolated Alaskan hunting lodge, and a desperate attempt to escape.
July 14, 1955
Murder at Roark Island
July 21, 1955
Trademark
July 28, 1955
The Blank Wall
A reformed convict watches his daughter's society wedding draw near, just as the household butler decides it is a fine moment to demand hush money.
An embezzling Cuban chemist needing $40,000 turns cortisone smuggler with a very dangerous lady.
A swindler who killed twice to keep his loot is undone by a television quiz show.
Top-billed for a year, dancer Clive is being pushed aside for a younger partner named Ricky, and he refuses to let his wife go, on stage or off.
A restless ship passenger follows a beautiful woman ashore in Panama, witnesses her knife a man, and learns just how lethal she can be.
Cheating on his rich wife, a man engineers a lethal 'mishap' for the friend who has learned too much. (The series' final Pacific-coast broadcast.)
September 15, 1955
Design for Murder
September 22, 1955
Element X
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