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  • The Whistler - Death Comes at Midnight - 1942

    The Whistler - Death Comes at Midnight - 1942
    Jul 4 2025

    John Prentice has had a terrifying dream that he will be killed in exactly forty-eight hours. There's nothing to such premonitions... are there? When a tough-sounding voice phones, claiming to be a hit man, John turns down what he believes to be a cruel prank. But as the hours tick by, the nightmare begins to feel all too real.


    Main Character

    The Whistler (Narrator): Bill Forman


    Production Team

    Writer: Herbert Connor and J. Donald Wilson

    Producer: J. Donald Wilson

    Music: Wilbur Hatch

    Theme Music: Composed by Wilbur Hatch and featured Dorothy Roberts whistling with an orchestra


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    30 min
  • You Are There - Philadelphia, July 4, 1776 - 1948

    You Are There - Philadelphia, July 4, 1776 - 1948
    Jul 4 2025
    SPECIAL EPISODE - INDEPENDENCE DAY - Step inside Independence Hall as CBS reporters “cover” the dramatic events of July 4, 1776. Tensions run high as the Continental Congress debates the Declaration of Independence, with John Dickinson opposing the break from Britain and John Adams urging unity. Through immersive reporting and expert commentary, this powerful dramatization brings to life the birth of a nation.

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    28 min
  • Escape - A Tooth for Paul Revere - July 4, 1948

    Escape - A Tooth for Paul Revere - July 4, 1948
    Jul 4 2025
    SPECIAL EPISODE - INDEPENDENCE DAY - Lemuel Hallowell, a stubborn and outspoken colonial farmer in Massachusetts, is suffering from a terrible toothache. Reluctantly, he visits a silversmith and amateur dentist named Paul Revere in Boston for help. The two men don’t get along at first—Revere finds Lemuel cantankerous, and Lemuel considers Revere too full of himself. But after the tooth is extracted (painfully), Lemuel is unexpectedly swept into Revere’s growing sense of urgency about British oppression.

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    29 min
  • Gunsmoke - Jaliscoe - 1952

    Gunsmoke - Jaliscoe - 1952
    Jul 3 2025

    Jaliscoe Pete and three companions murder the Thompson family and attempt to make it look like the attack was carried out by Native Americans. Marshal Matt Dillon investigates and unravels the truth behind the brutal slayings and the cover-up.


    Starring Cast:

    William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon

    Parley Baer as Chester

    Georgia Ellis as Kitty

    Howard McNear as Doc Adams


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    29 min
  • Jeff Regan, Investigator - A Cure for Insomnia - 1950

    Jeff Regan, Investigator - A Cure for Insomnia - 1950
    Jul 3 2025
    A distraught husband hires the International Detective Bureau to investigate the mysterious death of his wife, who had been suffering from insomnia. Although authorities ruled it a suicide, he believes she was murdered. Jeff Regan must sift through scant clues, sleepless nights, and hidden motives to uncover the truth and determine whether her death was indeed murder—not suicide.

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    29 min
  • Escape - Typhoon - 1947

    Escape - Typhoon - 1947
    Jul 2 2025
    Sail into the heart of a storm—both literal and psychological—in this gripping radio adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novella Typhoon. Captain MacWhirr is a quiet, stubborn man of few words, but when his steamer is caught in a ferocious South China Sea storm, his stoic nature is put to the ultimate test. As the crew struggles with the fury of nature and the burden of hundreds of Chinese workers in the hold, MacWhirr’s determination to follow the course—no matter the cost—becomes both admirable and unsettling.

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    29 min
  • Broadway's My Beat - The Anna Compton Murder Case - 1951

    Broadway's My Beat - The Anna Compton Murder Case - 1951
    Jul 2 2025

    Clover confronts the dark underbelly of the Great White Way, where he bears witness to regret and redemption, to desperation and debauchery, to wealth and want. As always, the unhappy endings of hard luck stories drive Danny to search for justice - pounding the pavement to track down an eye witness, find that one scrap of evidence, or just to walk until it all makes sense.


    Main Characters

    Detective Danny Clover: Larry Thor

    Sgt. Gino Tartaglia: Charles Calvert

    Sgt. Muggavan: Jack Kruschen


    Production Team

    Writers: Morton Fine and David Friedkin

    Producer/Director: Elliott Lewis

    Music: Wilbur Hatch and Alexander Courage

    Sound Effects: David Light, Ralph Cummings, Ross Murray (three sound effects technicians)

    Announcer: Bill Anders


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    30 min