BONUS - Five Favorites: The Whistler
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, I'm sharing my five favorite installments of The Whistler - the anthology of mystery and murder where we follow the criminal as the commit the "perfect crime," only to be undone at the final curtain. Bill Forman is our sinister storyteller, who "knows the nameless terrors" of these killers' minds. First, a long-suffering wife plans to get rid of her husband and frame him for a series of murders in "Boomerang" (originally aired on CBS on March 11, 1946), and a carnival dancer marries - and murders - for money in "The Brass Ring" (originally aired on CBS on September 16, 1946). Radio Philip Marlowe Gerald Mohr is a mob boss with a deadly secret in "Caesar's Wife" (originally aired on CBS on June 2, 1947), and a small town's frontier festival is the backdrop for murder in "The Tell-Tale Brand" (originally aired on CBS on January 9, 1949). Finally, a newfangled gadget called a car phone may provide an airtight alibi in "A Law of Physics" (originally aired on CBS on June 10, 1951).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. |
| 0:02.0 | Crime is a sucker's road, |
| 0:04.0 | and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you're about to hear is true. The |
| 0:12.5 | The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.5 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:21.5 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize. |
| 0:25.0 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account. |
| 0:30.0 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator |
| 0:33.2 | yours truly Johnny Deller The Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets. |
| 1:00.0 | Another show where I pick a classic radio mystery and share my five favorite |
| 1:06.6 | installments from the series. One of my favorite mystery genres is the how done it or how catch him. |
| 1:15.0 | The story where you see the criminal commit the crime and then watch as the detective |
| 1:20.4 | pieces together the clues to solve the case. The most famous example of this type of story is Columbo. |
| 1:27.0 | You can find it elsewhere on TV and episodes of Monk, and most recently the series Poker Face and Elsbeth. |
| 1:35.0 | But during the Golden Age of Radio, the best example of the inverted mystery story |
| 1:41.0 | was The Whistler, an anthology series that aired on the West Coast for 13 years |
| 1:48.0 | from 1942 until 1955. |
| 1:52.3 | It's one of my favorite radio shows and today I'll be sharing my five favorite |
| 1:58.1 | episodes of The Whistler. The Whistler himself was the show's storyteller, an omniscient and ominous narrator who was introduced |
| 2:08.0 | each week with a signature whistled tune and a great introduction. Signal, the famous Go-Father Gasoline, invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story |
| 2:31.0 | by the Whistler and I know many things for I walk by night. I know many strange |
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