What happens
Eddie Martin, owner of the Martin Truck Line, hauls freight between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and his friend Vic Hamilton works as his driver. Vic has been secretly planning with Ted Reiser to hijack one of Eddie's loads, with Anne helping to relay the schedule. Vic's affair with Ethel, Eddie's wife, has also become tangled up in the scheme. The story follows Vic and Eddie on a night run north along Highway 101, as Vic's nerves rise and the hijack draws near. This episode of The Whistler, the Signal Oil program, aired on September 25, 1949, with Frank Lovejoy and Eddie Maher among the cast.
Los Angeles and Highway 101 north toward San Francisco, including a roadside cafe called the Hilltop Cafe.
Characters: Eddie Martin, Vic Hamilton, Ethel Martin, Ted Reiser, Hazel, Anne
Listen for: Vic's uneasy reaction when a car flashes its lights behind the truck and when the police siren sounds.
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.