The Chicago-based Whistler series ran from February 3, 1946 to February 9, 1947. It starred Everett Clarke. The program was sponsored by Peter Hand Brewery and promoted their Meister Brau beer. The broadcasts were based in WBBM studios and were performed in front of live audiences. The 54 WBBM broadcasts used scripts from the Pacific Network series with Chicago actors and production staff. Only three programs have survived as of the date of this entry into the Internet Archi

For 78 weeks beginning in March 1947, the highly regarded mystery series The Whistler finally had a sponsor outside of the CBS Pacific Network. Signal Oil was the deep-pocketed sponsor of the series, one of the true gems of the golden age of radio. The show had excellent writing and a fine cast of radio veterans every week. Radio listeners in the rest of the country heard some episodes in 1946 when the series, unsponsored, was the summer replacement for The Jack Carson Show.