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The Whistler | Old Time Radio
The Whistler | Old Time Radio brings you classic mystery, crime, suspense, and psychological thrillers from the golden age of radio. Enter dark stories of murder, deception, greed, obsession, and desperate choices, guided by the eerie presence of the Whistler. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. The Whistler became one of radio’s most…
Episodes
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Still Death" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
The Whistler presents “Still Death,” episode 328, originally broadcast on September 22, 1948. This 30-minute CBS Pacific Network mystery was sponsored by…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "His Own Reward" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
The Whistler presents “His Own Reward,” originally broadcast March 25, 1951, episode 460. Bill Forman stars as the Whistler in this CBS West Coast production…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Till Death Do Us Part" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
The Whistler presents “Till Death Do Us Part,” originally broadcast November 26, 1950. Episode 443 of the CBS Pacific Network series was sponsored by Signal…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Seven Steps to Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
The Whistler presents “Seven Steps to Murder,” originally broadcast on February 3, 1947, as episode 245. This CBS Pacific Network production was sponsored by…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "The Tale the Dead Man Told" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
The Whistler presents “The Tale the Dead Man Told,” originally broadcast October 16, 1944. This 29-minute episode is episode 126 of the Signal Oil-sponsored…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Sees Double" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
The Whistler, “Death Sees Double,” originally broadcast November 20, 1944, is episode 130 of the CBS Pacific network suspense series. Sponsored by Signal Oil…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "High Death" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
The Whistler presents “High Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 11, 1951. Episode 458 was written by Edwin Spangenberg and sponsored by Signal Oil. In…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "You Cant Trust a Stranger" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Old Time Retro Radio presents The Whistler, “You Can’t Trust a Stranger,” originally broadcast July 27, 1952. This CBS Pacific network crime drama, sponsored…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "The Man Who Bought Death" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “The Man Who Bought Death,” originally broadcast on May 21, 1945, as episode 156. This CBS Pacific network mystery aired with Signal Oil…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Walks a Tightwire" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
The Whistler presents “Death Walks a Tightwire,” episode 131, originally broadcast November 27, 1944. Written by Hal Wexler and produced and directed by George…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Dark Moon" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
The Whistler, “Dark Moon,” originally broadcast November 19, 1947, is episode 286. This CBS Pacific network crime anthology installment was sponsored by Signal…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Poison Is Quicker" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “Poison Is Quicker,” episode 184, originally broadcast December 3, 1945. This CBS Pacific network drama was sponsored by Signal Oil and…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "What Makes a Murderer" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “What Makes a Murderer,” originally broadcast on August 13, 1945. This is episode 168 of the CBS Pacific Network mystery series…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Wears a White Robe" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “Death Wears a White Robe,” episode 175, originally broadcast on October 1, 1945. This roughly 30-minute CBS Pacific network drama was…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "A Friendly Case of Blackmail" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
The Whistler presents “A Friendly Case of Blackmail,” originally broadcast on November 12, 1950. This CBS Pacific Network mystery, sponsored by Signal Oil, is…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Demands a Payment" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
The Whistler presents “Death Demands a Payment,” episode 83, originally broadcast on December 19, 1943. Written and directed by J. Donald Wilson, this CBS…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Patroness of Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
The Whistler, “Patroness of Murder,” originally broadcast December 18, 1949, is episode 394 of the suspense anthology series. Heard on the CBS Pacific network…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Terror Stricken" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
The Whistler presents “Terror Stricken,” originally broadcast on April 8, 1946, as episode 202. This 30-minute CBS Pacific Network suspense drama was sponsored…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Grave Secret Ep Afrs" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Old Time Retro Radio presents The Whistler, “Grave Secret” (Episode 351), originally broadcast February 27, 1949. This circulating edition is identified as an…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Marks the Double Cross - Mystery Theater Version" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “Death Marks the Double Cross - Mystery Theater Version,” episode 146, originally broadcast March 12, 1945. Bill Forman stars as the…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Design for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
The Whistler presents “Design for Murder,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 5, 1951. Episode 479 of the Signal Oil-sponsored suspense series stars Bill…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death of Mr Penny" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
The Whistler presents “Death of Mr Penny,” originally broadcast March 20, 1949. This is episode 354 of the suspense anthology series. At the snowbound Clear…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder in Paradise" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
The Whistler presents “Murder in Paradise,” originally broadcast on November 28, 1948. Episode 338 of the Signal Oil-sponsored CBS West Coast series features…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder in Mind" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
The Whistler presents “Murder in Mind,” originally broadcast April 16, 1950 (episode 411). This CBS Pacific network suspense drama was sponsored by Signal Oil…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "The Doctor Prescribes Death" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
The Whistler presents “The Doctor Prescribes Death,” episode 108, originally broadcast on CBS on June 11, 1944. This psychological crime drama was written by…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder at Twin Pines" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
The Whistler presents “Murder at Twin Pines,” originally broadcast April 10, 1949, as episode 357. In this CBS Pacific Network drama sponsored by Signal Oil…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder in Haste" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
The Whistler presents “Murder in Haste,” episode 196, originally broadcast February 25, 1946. This CBS Pacific Network suspense drama was sponsored by Signal…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "The Man Who Came to Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “The Man Who Came to Murder,” originally broadcast on August 6, 1945. Episode 167 of the CBS Pacific Network mystery series was sponsored…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Comes at Midnight" (Old Time Radio, 1942)
The Whistler presents “Death Comes at Midnight,” episode 23, originally broadcast October 18, 1942. This early CBS Pacific Network sustaining broadcast was…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Phone Call from Death" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “Phone Call from Death,” episode 172, originally broadcast September 10, 1945. This 30-minute CBS Pacific Network mystery was sponsored…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Till Death Do Us Part" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
The Whistler, “Till Death Do Us Part,” episode 115, originally broadcast July 30, 1944. This suspense drama follows a darkly intimate tale of marriage…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Sing a Song of Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “Sing a Song of Murder,” episode 173, originally broadcast on September 17, 1945. This CBS Pacific Network mystery stars Marvin Miller as…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Seven Steps to Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
The Whistler presents “Seven Steps to Murder,” episode 665, originally broadcast March 10, 1955. Airing on the CBS Pacific network and sponsored by Signal Oil…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Married to Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
The Whistler presents “Married to Murder,” episode 123, originally broadcast on September 25, 1944. This 30-minute CBS Pacific Network drama was sponsored by…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "A Brief Pause for Murder Ep East Coast" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
The Whistler presents “A Brief Pause for Murder,” originally broadcast September 8, 1946, though some circulating copies are dated September 11. This Chicago…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder on Paper" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “Murder on Paper,” episode 140, originally broadcast January 29, 1945. This 30-minute CBS Pacific Network crime drama was sponsored by…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death in Sixteen Millimeter Ep Afrs" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Old Time Retro Radio presents The Whistler, “Death in Sixteen Millimeter,” originally broadcast July 17, 1949. Commonly cataloged as episode 372, this CBS…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Has a Thirst" (Old Time Radio, 1942)
The Whistler presents “Death Has a Thirst,” episode 15, originally broadcast on CBS on August 22, 1942. Written and directed by J. Donald Wilson, this tense…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "What Makes a Murderer" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
The Whistler, “What Makes a Murderer,” originally broadcast April 7, 1948, is episode 306. This CBS mystery drama follows a meek stockbroker who abandons the…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Deadly Rumor" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
The Whistler, “Deadly Rumor,” originally broadcast September 17, 1950, is episode 433 of the CBS Pacific network suspense series. Bill Forman returns as the…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Meet Mr Death" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “Meet Mr Death,” episode 152, originally broadcast on April 23, 1945. This Signal Oil-sponsored CBS Pacific network drama was produced by…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Carries a Lunch Kit Ephorn in Opening" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
Old Time Retro Radio presents The Whistler, episode 127, “Death Carries a Lunch Kit Ephorn in Opening,” originally broadcast on October 23, 1944. This CBS…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder on Margin" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
The Whistler presents “Murder on Margin,” originally broadcast May 19, 1948. Listed as episode 312, this CBS Pacific network drama was sponsored by Signal Oil…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Legacy of Death" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
The Whistler, “Legacy of Death,” originally broadcast February 14, 1943, is episode 40 of the CBS Pacific Network suspense series. Written and directed by J…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Seven Steps to Murder - East Coast" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
The Whistler presents “Seven Steps to Murder,” the East Coast broadcast originally heard on February 12, 1947. In this CBS, Household Finance…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "The Killers" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
The Whistler presents “The Killers,” episode 50, originally broadcast on May 1, 1943. Written and directed by J. Donald Wilson, this CBS Pacific Network…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Three Minus One Equals Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
The Whistler presents “Three Minus One Equals Murder,” originally broadcast on November 11, 1951. This is episode 493 of the CBS Pacific network series…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder Is Blind" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
Old Time Retro Radio presents The Whistler, “Murder Is Blind,” originally broadcast June 4, 1945. This is episode 158 of the suspense anthology series. In this…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Appointment for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
The Whistler, “Appointment for Murder,” originally broadcast February 26, 1950, is episode 404. This surviving approximately 30-minute CBS Pacific Network…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Two and One Makes Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
The Whistler, “Two and One Makes Murder,” originally broadcast May 6, 1951, is episode 466 of the CBS Pacific mystery anthology, sponsored by Signal Oil. The…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Ticket to Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Old Time Retro Radio presents The Whistler, “Ticket to Murder,” originally broadcast October 30, 1949. This is episode 387 of the suspense anthology, a Signal…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder in Haste Ep Afrs" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
From The Whistler, “Murder in Haste” (episode 196), originally broadcast February 25, 1946. Written by Eleanor Beeson, this CBS Pacific network thriller…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder on Rourke Island" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
The Whistler presents “Murder on Rourke Island,” episode 240, originally broadcast on December 30, 1946. This circa-30-minute CBS Pacific network suspense…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death of Mr Penny Ep Afrs" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
The Whistler presents “Death of Mr Penny,” episode 354, originally broadcast on March 20, 1949. This surviving version is cataloged as an AFRS rebroadcast of…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder of Byron Blake" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
The Whistler presents “Murder of Byron Blake,” episode 250, originally broadcast on March 10, 1947. This CBS Pacific Network suspense drama was sponsored by…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Pattern for Terror" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
Old Time Retro Radio presents The Whistler, “Pattern for Terror,” originally broadcast on July 16, 1945. This is episode 164 of the CBS Pacific Network mystery…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death in the Air" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
The Whistler, “Death in the Air,” originally broadcast August 13, 1943, is episode 65 of the suspense anthology series. This 30-minute CBS Pacific Network…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Doctor Operates in Crime" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
The Whistler presents “Doctor Operates in Crime,” episode 132, originally broadcast on December 4, 1944. Written by Selig Lester and produced by J. Donald…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Death Watch" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
The Whistler presents “Death Watch,” episode 161, originally broadcast on June 25, 1945. This CBS Pacific Network mystery was sponsored by Signal Oil and…
The Whistler | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Design for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
The Whistler presents “Design for Murder,” episode 690, originally broadcast on September 8, 1955. In this CBS suspense drama, Charles Gilbert sees his wife…