episodes of The Whistler
"I know many strange things, for I walk by night." Just who **was** the Whistler, that nasal-toned, omniscient voice who knew "the dark secrets of men and women who have stepped into shadows...the nameless terrors of which they do not speak"? He and his counterpart on a competing series, the Mysterious Traveller were perhaps just variations on Raymond, the old "Inner Sanctum" host, but they were effective nonetheless. The Whistler's interrupting use of the second person ("You knew, didn't you, James, just what Gloria would say!") gave it a style of its own.
And oh -- that theme! Wilbur Hatch's eerie melody remains one of the truly great original pieces of music scoring from Radio's Golden Age.
Click on a script title below to view it:
| Oct 04 1942 | Urge To Kill |
| Oct 30 1944 | The Beloved Fraud |
| May 07 1945 | Accident According to Plan |
| Jan 28 1946 | The Strange Sisters |
| Jul 16 1947 | Beyond Reasonable Doubt |
| Jan 28 1948 | Night Final |
| Jun 02 1948 | Stranger in the House |
| Jun 09 1948 | The Necklace was Incidental |
| Dec 25 1949 | Letter from Cynthia |
| Jan 08 1950 | Return to Riondo |
| Dec 24 1950 | Three Wise Guys |
| Sep 16 1951 | A Matter of Patience |
| Jun 14 1953 | Look in the Window |