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From The Shadow: “Death and the Black Fedora.” The original broadcast date and episode number are not supplied with this local archival recording.No reliable plot synopsis or production credits accompany the available source, preserving this episode as an archival presentation of the classic mystery series.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.Chapters:00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction00:15 Original Broadcast29:41 ClosingBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com...

The Shadow presents “Nightmare at Gaelsberry,” originally broadcast on February 2, 1941. Often listed as episode 213, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama was sponsored by Blue Coal and stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Marjorie Anderson as Margot Lane.When Margot’s debilitating headache draws Lamont Cranston to Gaelsberry, a mental institution in crisis, the Shadow finds danger behind its locked doors. With the inmates in control, he must confront a growing threat before more lives are endangered.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio...

The Shadow presents “Death and the Crown of Odalph,” originally broadcast January 2, 1949. Script number 356 in the Street & Smith records, it is also listed as episode 467 in some old-time-radio logs.When a historian is murdered, Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane are drawn into the mystery of the jeweled Crown of Odalph, an artifact tied to an ancient Viking legend and a chilling supposed curse. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane, in a Peter Barry script originally heard on Mutual and sponsored by Blue Coal.The Shadow presents the original broa...

The Shadow presents “Bubbling Death,” originally broadcast December 5, 1943. This surviving installment comes from the Mutual Broadcasting System’s 1943–44 Blue Coal season and stars Bret Morrison as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane.At the LeGrand family’s ancestral estate, a history of violent deaths and talk of a family curse cast a sinister pall over the household. As ominous signs—including a conspicuous bubbling cauldron—heighten the fear, Lamont and Margo investigate the human truth behind the seemingly supernatural terror. Written by Eric Arthur.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced...

The Shadow presents “The Isle of the Living Dead,” originally broadcast October 13, 1940. In this 197th episode of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, sponsored by Blue Coal, Bill Johnstone stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane. The script was written by Jerry Devine.When Betty Fulton asks for help finding her missing fiancé, Lamont and Margo travel through a storm to the tropical island of St. Jude. Tales of zombies and the forbidding hilltop plantation of Mrs. Nesbitt lead the Shadow into a dangerous mystery where island folklore may conceal a very human threat....

The Shadow presents “Appointment with Death,” originally broadcast on March 12, 1939, as episode 163 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series. This Blue Coal-sponsored installment stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane.Fresh from prison, Blacky Carmichael launches a criminal campaign meant to lure The Shadow into a deadly confrontation at an isolated island on White Lake. As Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane investigate, the unseen crime-fighter faces a trap designed to expose even an invisible adversary.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing anno...

The Shadow presents “Death Stalks the Shadow,” originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System on October 9, 1938. This is episode 55, season 2, episode 3, starring Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane.On the eve of a condemned man’s execution, Lamont Cranston discovers the prisoner may hold vital information about a dangerous criminal operation. Following the trail to a prominent attorney, The Shadow and Margot face a sinister new threat: photoelectric security technology that can turn invisibility into a deadly disadvantage.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introd...

The Shadow presents “Death Prowls at Night,” originally broadcast on Mutual on March 23, 1941. Episode 220 of the Blue Coal-sponsored series stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Marjorie Anderson as Margot Lane.On a ski holiday in wooded mountain country, Lamont and Margot find themselves drawn into reports of a great wolf stalking the night. Their search leads toward an isolated sanatorium, an enigmatic doctor, and a growing sense that something sinister may be controlling the fear. Jerry Devine wrote this horror-tinged adventure, adapted from the Shadow novels by Walter B. Gibson.The Shadow presents the...

The Shadow presents “Cold Death,” originally broadcast on December 19, 1937. This Christmas-season episode is identified as script no. 13 and is also cataloged as episode #099. Orson Welles stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Agnes Moorehead as Margo Lane, in this Mutual Broadcasting System broadcast sponsored by Blue Coal.Shortly before Christmas, Cranston investigates Carverville, a mill town ruled by its powerful owner, Daniel Carver. With reporters shut out and workers facing bitter cold, poverty, and unsafe homes, the Shadow confronts a grim situation with a distinctly Dickensian moral atmosphere.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newl...

From The Shadow: “The House That Death Built,” originally broadcast January 25, 1948. Common old-time-radio logs list it as episode 432, though some guides use alternate overall numbering. This archival presentation features Bret Morrison as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Grace Matthews as Margot Lane; the story was written by Alfred Bester.When a blizzard strands Lamont and Margot at an isolated, grotesque old mansion, they find a group of uneasy strangers and a house with a sinister history. With the storm closing in, the Shadow investigates a deadly maze of secrets and execution-themed traps.The Shadow presents the orig...

The Shadow presents “The Plot Murder,” originally broadcast February 27, 1938. This early Mutual Broadcasting System drama, sponsored by Blue Coal, stars Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston and Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane.When Army Lieutenant John Wilson is convicted of sabotaging a secret experimental “flying torpedo,” his dazed behavior convinces Margot that the case deserves another look. The Shadow investigates a tense world of court-martial proceedings, military espionage, and a looming weapons demonstration.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more con...

The Shadow presents “The Killers Rendezvous,” originally broadcast December 15, 1940, as episode 206. This Mutual Broadcasting System production, sponsored by Blue Coal, stars William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane.When a storm forces their commercial flight to land, Lamont and Margo join a group of stranded travelers at a remote roadside inn. A gunshot, a dead man, and a missing case of jewels turn the unexpected stop into a dangerous mystery. Written by Jerry Devine, this 1940 adventure follows The Shadow as he weighs the clues and suspects.The Shadow presents the orig...

The Shadow presents “Dream of Death,” originally broadcast November 9, 1947. In episode 421 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal series, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Grace Matthews as Margot Lane.At an isolated house high above the sea, Lyra Sander is plagued by terrifying dreams and fears that her husband, lost in a sailing accident, has returned. When her sister turns to Cranston and Margot Lane, The Shadow investigates the ominous events surrounding the cliffside home.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and ge...

The Shadow presents “Dead Men Talk,” originally broadcast September 24, 1939. Episode 166 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, this Blue Coal-sponsored adventure stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and was written by Jerry Devine.When racketeer Joe Gordon vanishes, Cranston and Margot Lane begin tracing uneasy links to respected civic leader Grant Flynn. A reported death, a funeral home, and an underground river tunnel lead The Shadow into a dangerous investigation filled with deception and disappearance.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audi...

The Shadow presents “Death Hunt,” originally broadcast October 26, 1947, and identified as episode 419. In this Mutual Broadcasting System installment, sponsored by Blue Coal, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow alongside Grace Matthews as Margo Lane.A debt-ridden gambler accepts a terrifying wager that turns him into prey among a block of condemned city houses. As his frightened wife seeks help, Lamont and Margo follow the trail into a dangerous world of gambling, obsession, and high-stakes sport.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mast...

The Shadow presents “The Chill of Death,” originally broadcast January 4, 1948. Commonly cataloged as episode 429, this preserved Mutual Broadcasting System broadcast was sponsored by Blue Coal and written by Louis Vittes. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston, with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane.When an insurance executive detects a troubling pattern involving the deaths of maids employed by the Baileys, Lamont and Margo begin to investigate. To get closer to the truth, Margo takes a dangerous undercover job in the household as the Baileys’ new maid, Margaret Flynn.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produc...

The Shadow presents “Preview of Terror,” originally broadcast June 5, 1949. Written by Frank Kane, this episode is cataloged as script-series number 378, though some audio listings use a different episode count.Driving through a storm, Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane are diverted to an isolated old house, where a Hollywood director’s elaborate mystery preview brings staged chills uncomfortably close to real danger. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a...

The Shadow presents “Murder by Rescue,” originally broadcast on December 11, 1938. Common broadcast listings identify it as episode 64, or Season 2, episode 12, of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal-sponsored run.When wealthy heir Warren Mitchell becomes entangled in a strange scheme involving a phonograph record, hypnosis, and an apparent roadside rescue, Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane are drawn into the danger. This early installment stars Bill Johnstone as The Shadow and Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio...

The Shadow presents “The Tomb of Terror,” originally broadcast June 19, 1938, and commonly cataloged as episode 125. In this Orson Welles-era production, Margot Stevenson co-stars as Margot Lane.At the City Museum, an ancient Egyptian tomb is readied for public display when a series of deaths seems to confirm the legend of a deadly curse. Lamont Cranston and Margot investigate a case of archaeology, scientific menace, and mounting fear beneath the museum’s imposing exhibit.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more c...

The Shadow presents “Altar of Death,” originally broadcast March 15, 1942. Cataloged as episode 249 in some listings, this Mutual Broadcasting System adventure stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane.Lamont and Margo travel to Port St. Luce, a tropical volcanic island haunted by an annual rite known as “the night that eats people.” As fear gathers around the volcano and its ominous ceremonies, the Shadow investigates the deadly force behind the island’s cult.The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cle...