Saturday, July 6 - The Secret of the Whistler

The Secret of the Whistler (1946)

Ralph Harrison (Richard Dix) is married to Edith (Mary Currier), a rich woman who has been suffering heart attacks. Upset by her condition, he finds consoling companionship with an artist's model, the unscrupulous gold-digger Kay (Leslie Brooks).

He falls in love with Kay. Edith's health then improves. Edith overhears Ralph professing his love for Kay. Edith threatens Ralph, saying she's going to take him out of her will. He decides to poison her, with her own medicine, before she can meet with her lawyers.

After Edith dies, Ralph marries Kay, who becomes suspicious of how Edith died and worried for her own fate. Finding incriminating diary pages and the medicine, she has the medicine analyzed, discovering that it was poisoned.

Ralph overhears Kay's phone conversation with the lab. Pretending to embrace her, he strangles her to death, just as the police arrive and arrest him for murder - but not for the murder of Edith, because she had not taken the poisoned medicine but died of a heart attack.

Friday, July 5 - The Human Jungle: The 24-Hour Man

The Human Jungle: The 24-Hour Man (Season 2 Episode 5 - aired Oct 26, 1964)

Alvar Bell is the captain of a water bus on the River Thames. Dr Corder's secretary senses something is wrong with him when she took a boat ride with her son.

Alvar nearly crashes the boat. After Alvar is coaxed to see Dr Corder he loses his job. His boss found out that Alvar had been to see a psychiatrist.

An angry and out of control Alvar attacks Dr Corder thinking that he is to blame. It was in fact Alvar's fellow workmate Robson.

Dr Corder finds out that Alvar is suffering from exhaustion and surviving on uppers. He has been working almost 24 hours a day to support his family and pay the mortgage.

In the evening Alvar plays piano at a jazz club, his real passion and vocation.

Thursday, July 4 - Voice of the Whistler

Voice of the Whistler (1945)

The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long vacation. Heading for the Great Lakes, he becomes ill in the cab operated by Ernie Sparrow an is taken to a clinic where he meets nurse Joan Martin, who is engaged to intern Fred Graham. Doctors now tell him he has only a few months to live and advise him to go to Maine (where, evidently, it will seem longer.) He asks Joan to marry him, promising to leave her his fortune. She, no dummy, accepts but hard-loser Fred doesn't like it even though she says she is doing it for him. After six months of living in a lighthouse with only Joan and Sparrow, whom he has hired as his aide, Sinclaie seemingly regains his health and has really fallen in love with Joan. She tells him she can no longer tolerate the loneliness just as Fred arrives for a visit, and John invites him to stay. In a chess game, John facetiously outlines to Fred how he would murder him if he chose to. Fred, decides to beat him to the punch and enters his bedroom that night and attempts to kill John with a poker. The figure in the bed turns out to be a dummy and John, who has been hiding, clubs Fred to death. He tries to throw the body from the bedroom window but it won't open and, planning to return and force it open later, he carries the body to the rocks and then hits Fred's head with a stone. Returning to the lighthouse, John meets Sparrow and tells him that Fred fell from a window but Sparrow knows all the windows have been nailed shut. And Joan, who saw John carry the body out, has summoned the police.

Wednesday, July 3 - Honey West: Invitation to Limbo

Honey West: Invitation to Limbo (Season 1 Episode 14 - aired Dec 17, 1965)

Honey and Sam are hired to deal with industrial espionage. Someone in a company has been leaking secrets to a rival.

That man seems to be Charlie Kenyon who is caught out by Honey and Sam. He even tries to strangle Honey but later has no recollection.

Honey thinks that Charlie might have been set up and it brings them to take a close interest in a club with a hypnotist stage act. Hypnotism has been used for nefarious means.

Someone else has taken an interest in Honey. They blow up her car, a good job that a cop stopped her for speeding.

Tuesday, July 2 - The Whistler

The Whistler (1944)

Industrialist Earl C. Conrad, who failed to rescue his wife at sea and now suffers from grief and guilt, arranges to have a hit man end his life. He does not know how he will be killed, but knows that it will happen within days. Suddenly Conrad learns that his wife is still alive, and he tries to call off the hit. Unfortunately, the underworld go-between who made the deal with him has been killed in the meantime, leaving Conrad unable to learn the identity of the actual hit man.

The pathological hired killer, obsessed with carrying out his mission, stalks Conrad as the frightened industrialist stays on the move. Always looking over his shoulder and trying to think of a way to survive, Conrad keeps running into other dangers, including the vengeance of the dead man's wife.

Monday, July 1 - Hawaiian Eye: Stamped for Danger

Hawaiian Eye: Stamped for Danger (Season 1 Episode 14 - aired Jan 6, 1960)

Tracy has no idea what he's getting into when a dancer hires him to trace her old boyfriend, based on some letters he sent her about moving to Hawaii.

Princess Aysha / Vera Kirkland (Ruta Lee) hires Tracy Steele to deliver a $10,000 batch of envelopes with rare Hawaiian missionary stamps on them. Edward DeLong (John Litel) makes a bid of $40,000 for the stamps if the princess herself will deliver them to him. Ahmed (Jay Novello) is trying to locate the princess, but is murdered at the same time the envelopes go missing. Tracy believes DeLong murdered Ahmed to steal the stamps.

Sunday, June 30 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Never Trust a Ghost

My Partner the Ghost: Never Trust a Ghost (Season 1 Episode 4 - aired Oct 12, 1969)

Marty sees James Howarth being murdered but when Jeff summons the police at Marty's behest Howarth is apparently alive and well. Marty finds out that 'Howarth' and his wife are impostors who have murdered the real James and Karen Howarth and hidden the corpses in the basement. However, when the police come to investigate, the murderers, who are spies out to get a list of all known British agents - have disposed of them and Jeff is discredited. He begins to doubt Marty's sanity and sends him to a ghost expert, Dr. Plevitt, who can actually see him.