Broadcast October 18th 1953 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: Peter Barry
Announcer: Ted Mallie
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
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 episode was a repeat of “The Lost Dead” broadcast on December 19th 1948.
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