Fog: The Whistler (September 20, 1942)

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“Fog” is an episode of The Whistler, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 20, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Danny Price, a fisherman's deckhand, sets out through thick fog with Captain Fowler to confront Duke Moran over an unpaid loan, Danny carrying a gun. After a fall leaves Danny with a lapse of memory, he wanders off, and Captain Fowler searches the waterfront for him. Faye, Danny's fiancee, works at the Crystal Motion Picture Theater and joins the search. The Whistler series, broadcast by CBS, presents this 1942 episode, first aired on September 20, 1942.

A foggy harbor waterfront town, including the anchor pool room, the Crystal Motion Picture Theater, Fred's cafe, and the fishing boat Dolphin.

Characters: Danny Price, Captain Fowler, Faye, Duke Moran, Portagigio Joe, George

Listen for: Captain Fowler's insistence that Danny not go to a doctor, and Danny's gun being examined on the boat.

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.