Introduction

hi there!  You may have seen me in the Old Time Radio Lovers and The Old Time Radio Researchers groups on Facebook.  I've been listening to and studying The Whistler a lot this year, and I finally broke down and made a blog to post commentary and analysis.

I'll start off by just doing individual posts on particular Whistler episodes in no particular order, and I'll probably do other posts about that show and about other OTR and tangentially related topics--including reusing some content I've previously posted elsewhere.

I'm particularly interested in looking at connections between different stories--not only actual reused stories and recurring elements in the work of particular writers, but also tropes and themes that recur in otherwise unrelated episodes.  (I hope to keep track of oddly specific things like "episodes where the prospective murder victim dies of natural causes but the killer gets in trouble anyway," "episodes where the cops show up to arrest the person that the protagonist just murdered," "episodes where the protagonist is damned for the wrong murder," etc.)

Since the twist ending is so important to the formula of The Whistler, posts will contain spoilers!  I'll start each post with a little blurb about the basic premise of the episode, and you may want to listen to the episode before you read the whole post.