What happens
Thomas Northcott, a wealthy marine architect and shipbuilder, is overworked and suffering severe headaches. His friend Dr. John Elston tells him he is in danger of going blind and must stop working and rest. Tom's wife Elizabeth has grown distant, spending her evenings away from home. Tom arranges a cruise on his yacht and invites Elizabeth, Dr. Elston, Charles Carroll and Marge Durant. Strange events and tense confrontations unfold among the couple, their friends and the crew as the voyage begins. This episode of The Whistler, first broadcast on CBS on February 7, 1943, is told here through its first part.
New York and a yacht cruise on the open sea, 1940s
Characters: Thomas Northcott, Dr. John Elston, Elizabeth Northcott, Charles Carroll, Marge Durant, Billings, Captain Baker, Johnson
Listen for: The sudden lights-on moment in the library, and the doctor's uneasy warnings aboard the yacht.
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.