Broadcast January 28th 1951 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by the U.S. Army & the U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service
This is a lost episode and no recreation of it has yet been made. If you have a copy of the script please let me know.
Written by: John Lennox (a pseudonym of Alfred Bester)
Announcer: Carl Caruso
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Joan Alexander (Mrs. Beam and Judy Shallot) Staats Cotsworth (Lt. Steel) James McCallion (Nelson Troy) Robert Sloane (Joseph and the voice).
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Nelson Troy asks Lamont for help in order to learn the whereabouts of his missing Fridays. At midnight every Thursday evening he blacks out and awakens on Saturday morning. While investigating, Lamont observes a series of murders arranged by booby traps intended for Troy but killing those close to him by accident. Finding Troy in an apartment, Lamont discovers his client has a split personality — and alter ego — that of Benjamin Leach. After learning that a death threat was written on the same typewriter that created a series of letters linked to espionage that David Fairfield has been investigating, Lamont pieces together the clues to solve the mystery. Troy murdered his father five years ago when Ben Leach uncovered proof of his son’s espionage work. As the years passed, the load of guilt became unbearable, and Troy attempted to subconsciously punish himself. The final booby trap in his father’s crypt takes the life of Nelson Troy, putting an end to the mystery.
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