Broadcast December 4th 1949 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal" and Grove Laboratories (Fitch Dandruff Remover Shampoo)
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: Peter Barry
Announcer: Andre Baruch
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Elsie Thompson
Synopsis:
A young man who calls himself Hank forces his way into Letitia Camden’s home and sets up residence. As a guard for the Chinatree Asylum, Hank claims that her late husband was alive and well up until the other night when he died. An autopsy reveals her husband was of unsound mind. Letitia calls the family physician, a friend of Lamont and Margot’s, to the estate to help her with the problem. After a game of cat and mouse involving an attempted poisoning, the truth is exposed: Letitia’s husband supposedly died in a plane accident but faked his own death for the insurance money. The family physician caught on and drugged him and had him committed. The asylum nurses and doctors never paid attention to the ravings of their patients. Alone with Hank, the doctor and Letitia attempt to dispose of him because he attempted to blackmail them but they find their effort thwarted by The Shadow.
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