Broadcast December 21st 1952 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic and Wildroot Cream 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: J.G. Leighton (a pseudonym of John Cole)
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Margot and Lamont are Christmas shopping when they encounter a little fat man who looked like Santa Claus, desperately trying to escape from a young lady named Esther Miller. The little man’s trail led to a large old-fashioned townhouse and its eccentric occupants. When the little man is shot dead and Tommy Hampton is wounded, Margot is forced upstairs by the obviously mad Dr. Bond, a deluded eccentric who thinks of herself as the notorious murderess Lizzie Bond. After learning that Tommy fronted ten thousand dollars to Esther to pay off a gambling debt and that Mr. Hampton hired a jittery crook to take the payoff and bring it to him, The Shadow tricks the troupe into believing the money was hidden in the clock. Mr. Hampton was the only one who did not search the clock because he knew where the money really was — revealing he was not a befuddled little man but in fact a thief and a murderer. Margot is set free and contacts Weston to clean up the mess in time for the sleuths to revisit the department store for a little uninterrupted shopping.
No comments:
Post a Comment