What happens
Johnny Dollar investigates a murder at a hunting lodge. Wait, the characters here are John, Willard Crofton and his partner. In this episode of The Whistler, a man wakes in a hotel room in Ketchikan, Alaska, remembering a violent quarrel with his host, Willard Crofton. Discovering Crofton's identity papers and steamship tickets, he decides to flee south while impersonating the dead man, hoping the body will go undiscovered. His journey takes him through Skagway and aboard a steamer toward Vancouver. Aboard ship, he faces a doctor who grows suspicious of his health, and he must keep his identity hidden while tension mounts. The story is told in the present tense and the broadcast's air date is 1955-07-07.
Ketchikan, Alaska; the White Pass railroad; Skagway; a steamship bound for Vancouver
Characters: John, Willard Crofton, Jim Carroll, Dr. Prentice
Listen for: The slow reveal that the man is impersonating Willard Crofton, and the doctor's growing suspicion aboard ship
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.