The Whistler
Mystery drama presents crime-and-fate tales, with an omniscient narrator taunting guilty characters toward grim ironic endings.
The Whistler is an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955, on the west-coast regional CBS radio network. The show was also broadcast in Chicago and over Armed Forces Radio. On the West Coast of the United States, it was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." There were also two short-lived attempts to form east-coast broadcast spurs: July 3 to September 25, 1946, sponsored by the Campbell Soup Company; and March 26, 1947, to September 29, 1948, sponsored by Household Finance. The program was also adapted into a film noir series by Columbia Pictures in 1944.
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The Whistler. Radio program.
Original schedule
- 19429:45 PMCBS West Coast · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19429:15 PMCBS West Coast · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19436:00 PMCBS West Coast · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19439:00 PMCBS West Coast · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 194310:15 PMCBS West Coast · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19434:30 PMCBS West Coast · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19459:00 PMCBS West Coast · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19468:00 PMCBS Radio Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 194710:00 PMCBS Radio Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19489:30 PMCBS West Coast · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19498:30 PMCBS West Coast · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19497:30 PMCBS West Coast · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
B
Bob Lemond
Announcer
BBob Venables
Announcer
D
Don Rickels
Announcer
Alice Reinheart
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck
Cast
Berry Kroeger
Cast
CCharlotte Lawrence
Cast
D
Dick Joy
Cast
G
George O. Petrie
Cast
Gerald Mohr
Cast
Jack Moyles
Cast
Jack Webb
Cast
Joan Lorring
Cast
JJoyce McCluskey
Cast
Lurene Tuttle
Cast
Madeleine Carroll
Cast
M
Michael Rye
Cast
Ralph Edwards
Cast
Wally Maher
Cast
Willard Waterman
Cast
William Conrad
Cast
WWilbur Hatch
Composer
SSherman Marks
Director
SSterling Tracy
Director
DDorothy Roberts
Whistler (theme)
HHunter Taylor
Musician
BBill Forman
The Whistler
Bill Johnstone
The Whistler
EEverett Clarke
The Whistler
Gale Gordon
The Whistler
Joseph Kearns
The Whistler
MMarvin Miller
The Whistler
O
GOwen James
Whistled the theme
George W. Allen
Producer
JJ. Donald Wilson
Producer
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