Broadcast December 19th 1948 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal"
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) & Grace Matthews (Margot Lane)
Music: Elsie Thompson
Synopsis:
Mary Granger, Margot’s former secretary, suspects she is going crazy when she learns a woman in the city morgue’s slab seventeen is exactly like her — including her name and similar facial features. Lamont investigates the odd occurrence, including the disappearance of Mary’s fiancé, Jerry Griggs, who also discovers his body is lying in the morgue — and is another exact duplicate. Following the trail leading to Felix Hoffman, the physician on the city parole board, Lamont discovers that the mad doctor is inducing primary insanities into subjects for the purpose of observation. He arranged with his assistant to use his position at the morgue to take two unidentified corpses and, by use of the mortician’s skill, make them into identical images of the two people he selected for his experiments. With the world believing they were dead he assumed he would get away with the scheme. Too close for comfort, Margot is about to become a third victim until The Shadow arrives. Hoffman threatens Margot with a hypodermic needle to her throat, but The Shadow twists the doctor’s arm and forces him to drop the needle. Harker, the morgue attendant, also is taken into custody.
Note:
This script would be repeated as “Death and the Twin Cadavers” broadcast on October 18th 1953.
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