What happens
Matt Robertson, owner of the Robertson Ranch dairy empire in Saunders Junction, discovers that his partner Wilkes plans to expand the operation alone by buying Santa Susanna Ranch. Matt's resentment grows as he learns of the deal, and his partner Charlie Breck, recently released on probation, is already in trouble with the sheriff over a quarrel with Wilkes about Dorothy Robertson. This episode of The Whistler, broadcast on January 14, 1948, is told by the series' mysterious narrator and features Bill Boucher and David Ellis in the leading roles. The tensions among the men build as the characters' loyalties, debts and resentments become tangled over the ranch.
Saunders Junction, a small western railhead town serving the Robertson Ranch dairy cattle empire, including the nearby Santa Susanna and North Ranch properties.
Characters: Matt Robertson, Wilkes, Charlie Breck, Barry, Sheriff Walker, Dorothy Robertson, Bill Ashford, Johnny
Listen for: Listen for the argument between Matt Robertson and Wilkes over the Santa Susanna Ranch purchase, and for Charlie Breck's quarrel with Wilkes over Dorothy.
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.