Broadcast July 13th 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: Jonathan Lewis (a pseudonym of Alicia Goldfarb)
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Professor North and his daughter Cleo vanish under strange circumstances. Finding the unconscious body of Dr. Peter Miklis in the road, Lamont and Margot revive the famed doctor to learn the horrible truth — he was the victim of a brutal beating and the theft of valuable papers. Miklis worked on a government secret weapons project that would automatically defend the country’s coastline. Professor North and the woman posing as his daughter Cleo used a front of respectability to steal the plans, and Miklis overheard them discuss a midnight rendezvous with a foreign agent named Argus. Weston, Lamont, Margot and state and federal authorities begin a frantic search for the pair. North is found dying from a gunshot wound — a double-cross by Cleo, who ran off with the plans. Weston attempts to place her under arrest, but finds the girl dead and the plans missing. Learning the location of the secret rendezvous from the dying North, Lamont sets out as The Shadow to meet Argus and Miklis. Miklis worshipped Cleo but because she betrayed him, he killed her. Figuring he’s finished professionally because no one would ever believe he wasn’t in on the plot from the start, Miklis decided to kill the woman and sell the plans for a half million dollars. The Shadow interferes, ensuring the plans do not fall into the hands of an enemy agent.
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