Transmission
11 February
1946
Aunt Mary
Aunt Mary 1946-02-11
Network
NBC Pacific
Slot
Monday
Running time
13 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 February 1946.
Internet Archiveaunt-mary-42-xx-xx-085-kitt-sees-lisa_202007Condition unmeasured
The Whistler
Radio
The Whistler
CBS
CBS · 1942–1955
Broadcasts
858
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1942–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 858
- Genre
- suspense
You're walking alone on the street at night, but then you hear another set of footsteps and a haunting tune being whistled by an unseen stranger. Fritz Lang used an similar premise in his 1930s German movie with Peter Lorre playing M , a psychopathic murderer of children.
1947 · 21946 · 31945 · 31944 · 11943 · 11942 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 53 of 90Listenable · 23 of 90Rough but complete · 14 of 90
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Whistler_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 14 years on the air, with 8 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1942, in original transmission order.
- 1. Retribution · 16 May 1942
- 2. Whistler ep031 The Accounting · 13 Dec 1942
- 3. Whistler ep058 The Blank Wall · 26 Jun 1943
- 01
Retribution
16 May 1942 · 29 min
- 02
Whistler ep031 The Accounting
13 Dec 1942 · 29 min
Broadcast 13 December 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Whistler ep058 The Blank Wall
26 Jun 1943 · 29 min
Broadcast 26 June 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
Whistler ep124 Not If I Kill You First
2 Oct 1944 · 29 min
Broadcast 2 October 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
Murder on Paper
29 Jan 1945 · 29 min
- 06
Whistler ep160 Blueprint for Suicide
18 Jun 1945 · 29 min
Broadcast 18 June 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
House on Sycamore Road
15 Oct 1945 · 29 min
- 08
Whistler ep194 Six Letter Word for Death
11 Feb 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 11 February 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
11 Feb 1946
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 Feb 1946.
Transmission
11 February
1946
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes 1946-02-11 (205) The Guileless Gypsy
Network
NBC Blue / Mutual
Slot
Monday
Running time
28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 February 1946.
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CBS in 1942–1955
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