The Society returns to the Inner Sanctum for an episode requested by one of our listeners! Song of the Slasher features a hard-boiled detective hunting for a killer who whistles a unique tune. How many twist can they cram into this story? Do creepy threats of violence put you in the mood for some Lipton Tea? Are there any actual puns in this episode? Listen for yourself and find out! Then vote and let us know what you think:
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So, did these old radio shows ever do crossovers? Because this seems like a missed opportunity. They could have gotten The Whistler involved! And then Raymond and the framed-but-exonerated Whistler could jokingly fight over The Lipton Tea Lady, whom they both have a crush on. She, as usual, refrains from throwing tea at Raymond, who is *terrible* at flirting.
And this just turned into flash fanfic. My humble apologies.
Not exactly a crossover, but Jack Benny did do an excellent parody of The Whistler called The Fiddler! It’s about twelve and a half minutes in…
Thanks so much for covering this one– even though you didn’t feel it was a timeless classic, I’m glad you enjoyed it. The dialog between Raymond and the Lipton tea lady in these episodes of Inner Sanctum is my favorite thing in all of old time radio, because it’s just so weird! Her attitude is always a mildly exasperated “oh, RAYMOND,” like he put an empty milk carton back in the fridge and didn’t just make a pun about wife beating and murder. Anyway, loved it!
I loved this one! Thanks!
I remember this episode from when I was younger and Raymond’s gallows humor and the hardboiled nature of it continue to really work for me. I remember that poem Raymond says from way back as it’s just so brutal and Mary’s quaint rebuttal is vintage radio horror strangeness at its finest. I side with Joshua’s sympathies here and he makes a good point about the double-standard of judging Raymond’s vintage sadistic humor when other more gratuitously violent entertainment is culturally OK now. The often regrettable ridiculously-impassioned-weirdo-artist cliche fits right in here and it’s great because he turns out to be… Read more »
Woah! I did not see that twist coming! (Not the final twist, but the twist before the last twist)