Broadcast October 3rd 1954 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Camel Cigarettes) and Harrison Products, Inc. (No-Doz Awakeners)
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: Alfred Bercovici
Announcer: Ted Mallie
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Princess Alessandri, leader of a new religious cult, plots with Agatha and Renard Jackson to fake Renard’s death using the body of an ex-convict. The police are fooled into thinking Renard’s face was blown away from Agatha’s gun but the jury acquits her of the slaying. Her millionaire uncle, Hubert Shelton, formerly disinherited Agatha because of her marriage to Renard but changes his will soon afterward to name her his heir. Renard then murders Shelton, knowing the police cannot pin a murder on a dead man. Suspecting Agatha is involved with the murder of her uncle, The Shadow follows her movements, leading to clues of the conspiracy with Princess Alessandri. She calls upon her cult’s god to strike the laughing Shadow dead but the god remains silent. Becoming scared, Agatha starts to confess. When Alessandri attempts to silence her, The Shadow twists the knife out of her hand.
Hello. If the episodes are lost- how do we know the plots? Are there scripts that we can get?
ReplyDeleteThe majority of the scripts are not available to the public, but 98% of the scripts are kept in the Street and Smith Collection at Syracuse University Library. The episodes on here listed as "title unknown" or plot unknown are missing from the collection.
DeleteThe Summaries here were taken from "The Shadow The History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930-1954" by Martin Grams Jr.