What happens
Photographer Jeff Lambert learns that his sweetheart Elaine Cartwright, owner of Cartwright Pictures, has ended their engagement to marry financier Neil Reynolds. Lambert travels to San Francisco, where Elaine is staying with the Reynolds family before the wedding. There he finds himself at a tunnel rescue site, where fourteen men are trapped after a cave-in. The Whistler: Public Hero first aired on September 2, 1951, and this tale of romance, rivalry and a dangerous rescue unfolds with Elaine Cartwright and Jeff Lambert at its center.
Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1950s; a movie studio, a hotel, and a tunnel construction site in the hills near San Francisco
Characters: Jeff Lambert, Elaine Cartwright, Neil Reynolds, Anne Mason, Mrs. Biglow
Listen for: Jeff's conversation with Neil Reynolds at the tunnel site and the dramatic rockfall scene
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.