The Whistler

- Season 1

(1954)

A scheming couple resorts to blackmail to get money for an invention.

A private investigator is called in when a millionaire survives a murder attempt. The problem the investigator faces is not who had a reason to kill the millionaire, but who didn't.

A chauffeur become bitter when the romance he has been having fails. He plans a way to get revenge, but a strange twist produces a result far beyond anyone's expectation.

A member of the District Attorney team kills a political rival. He is in deep shock when a witness comes forward, but equally puzzled when she decides not to identify him.

A man witnesses a murder in his apartment building. However, when the police arrive, he fails to tell them about a bag filled with $75,000 that he has taken from the scene.

Ernie Madden, a convicted criminal is released from jail, as he goes about rebuilding his life he discovers an unknown and very attractive woman following him

A woman finds a man stranded on the shore.

Desperate businessman Paul Carter steals money from the home of a dead investor; the only person who can connect him to the theft is a little girl-who mentions him in a school essay. When his secretary Helen reads the essay, she uses it to blackmail him into a romance.

A woman (Miriam Hopkins) hires a detective to find her husband, whom she murdered long ago.

In Hong Kong, femme fatale Katherine enlists entertainer Chris Moore in a scheme to hijack a plane because of his ability as a voice mimic, but he wonders if he can trust her.

Harriet Eldridge faithfully cares for her employer's home while he is on an extended visit to Hawaii, all the better to cover the fact that she has murdered him for his money. Suddenly the employer's long-lost niece Valerie arrives with a secret of her own--and Harriet's brother Melvin falls for her.

Jean Grant learns that the man she has been dating is a criminal when he is sent to prison so she hires lawyer John Bradley to sever all of her ties to him. Then a blackmailer shows up, threatening to reveal the relationship.

In San Fransisco, a man legally dead, running from his past, is blackmailed by a crook who forces him to participate in crimes. He realizes that he's also on the lam, so he tries to convince his blackmailer to follow his path and fake a suicide to escape the law.

A corrupt businessman tries to kill his partner who wants to expose him.

Pilot Lloyd Adams has a lucrative career as a smuggler but when his partner Matt Bannion gets cold feet, his mind turns to plans of murder.

A man who inherits his father's estate must live with his uncle. Unhappy with the situation, he looks for a way out.

Humble bank messenger Walter Mason is delighted that his daughter is going to marry the boss' son-until a blackmailer threatens to expose his criminal past to the snooty mother of the groom.

A man takes $3500 off a man he finds dead in the street.

Newly engaged Cora James learns from a fortune teller that she has no future after March 13 (a few days away), then her scientist fiancé is talking about a human test subject for his new serum and she begins to suspect she's the guinea pig-and that is doomed.

Mild-mannered bookseller Henry Pettigrew discovers a pattern in a recent wave of violent crimes-and schemes to use the pattern to cover a murder of his own: his fiancée's bullying brother.

A doctor on his deathbed confesses to his son about how he dealt with a gangster.

Fran Gilbert arrives in town for a reunion with an old college friend but the woman isn't there to meet her and Fran begins to suspect her husband may have murdered her.

A newspaperman is asked to write a story for a large sum of money, that will help an investigator get a valuable item. When the newspaper man gets fired, he must figure out a way to deal with his replacement.

A woman's brother returns after 7 years to claim his inheritance. The brother was reported kill in a boating accident.

Con man Harry is hired to steal a valuable coin from his rich uncle's collection; things go wrong and he heads to his ex-wife Edith to con her into making the deal for him.

Charles Belden's miserable life consists of little more than managing his nasty, overbearing wife's sizable wealth in their remote cliff side home. When a girl comes to work there as a housekeeper, he decides he'll kill his wife and run away with her.

Stressed businessman Clint Markham checks into a sanitarium for a rest. Sneaking out at night for a rendezvous with his lover he encounters a vengeful ex, leading to his murdering her and trying to recover all evidence that he had left the sanitarium.

In Jamaica, Gordon Hamilton plots to murder his wealthy employer and frame the man's son for the crime, hoping to fool shrewd police Inspector Carrington.

Bored with routine, restless office worker Arthur Winslowe impulsively bets on a horse race; he wins big and runs out on his wife to start a new life in Miami. Everything goes well, until his wife arrives to spoil everything....

A man lifts a checkbook from a corpse and devises a shrewd plan to seize a large bank account.

Martin Heath's doctor tells him he only has three months to live. A tough older man seems to be following him, and later in the day he reveals he knows his situation, and proposes Heath confess to a murder, and he'll pay Heath's soon-to-be widow $10,000.

Lawyer Steve Lacey quarrels with his fiancée's uncle, the District Attorney, then awakens the next morning to the news of the uncle's murder--and no memory of what happened that night.

Socialites Lydia and Elliot Larkin must pretend that their broken marriage is a happy one to qualify for a huge inheritance but when Lydia recalls that if one of them dies the survivor will still inherit, she starts plotting murder.

Mild-mannered Gerald Marsh is devastated when his fiancée breaks up with him for another man. After rejecting the idea of suicide, he is soon negotiating the underworld looking for a hit man who can eliminate his rival.

Rancher Matt Robertson plots to murder his business partner Wilk Haines and frame a hot-headed young ranch hand for the crime.

Actor Leo Sanders romances old flame Julie Lane to get an introduction to her influential agent; when his big break goes sour he plots the murder of his rival.

An embezzling businesswoman decides to murder the partner who threatens to expose her.

Bright young lawyer David Martin has no qualms being counsel to mobster Branch Morgan. Then he becomes sole witness to a murder committed by the gangster and realizes how insecure his position really is.

Lawyer Eddie Davis works his way into the trust of millionaire Peter Jackson and is made chief beneficiary in the old man's will. Then Jackson announces he is marrying a much younger woman and Eddie sees his fortune threatened.