The Whistler
Broadcast 11 February 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- NBC Pacific
- Years active
- 1946–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 588
- Genre
- soap
This upload contains 582 episodes of the old time radio soap opera, Aunt Mary, sometimes also referred to as The Story of Aunt Mary. The dates and episodes numbers are all just estimated. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to put together a collection of every available episode where possible. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Additionally, while I tried to put together a collection that contains the best version of each episode that I could, there may be better copies of some recordings available from collectors and dealers, and I encourage you to reach out to them if you are so inclined. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “aunt-mary-42-xx-xx-085-kitt-sees-lisa_202007”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: aunt-mary-42-xx-xx-085-kitt-sees-lisa_202007
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
1 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 4 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Aunt Mary 1946-02-11 · 11 Feb 1946
- 2. Lefty Learns of Bill's New Job · Date unknown
- 3. Aunt Mary 42-xx-xx (141) Aunt Mary and Lefty Told of Wedding Postponement · Date unknown
- 01
Aunt Mary 1946-02-11
11 Feb 1946 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 February 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Lefty Learns of Bill's New Job
Date unknown · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Aunt Mary 42-xx-xx (141) Aunt Mary and Lefty Told of Wedding Postponement
Date unknown · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Aunt Mary 42-xx-xx (209) Ben and Jessie Argue
Date unknown · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Aunt Mary 42-xx-xx (273) Ben and Kitt Take the Witness Stand
Date unknown · 8 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Aunt Mary 42-xx-xx (350) Kitt's Condition Explained
Date unknown · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Lily and Randy Talk
Date unknown · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Peggy Returns
Date unknown · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
11 Feb 1946
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 Feb 1946.
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11 Feb 1946 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 February 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same seasons
soap on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The daytime serial
Fifteen minutes a day, the same family for years, and a story that never quite resolves. Ma Perkins and Stella Dallas invented serialised character audio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Aunt Mary
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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