1954-6-13 Temple of Death

Broadcast June 13th 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: Judith and David Bublick

Announcer: Ted Mallie

Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)

Music: Charles Paul

Synopsis:

Shim Wang operates a shady Chinese burial society that arranges for the removal of Chinese who die in the US and ships their bodies to China so they can be buried near their ancestors. In reality, he and his business partner, Paul Nordin, use the headrests in the coffins to smuggle TX Ones, small transistors that act as atomic batteries. Over one hundred of the transistors have disappeared from various government depots. When the body of a laborer at the burial society is fished out of the water, Lamont and Margot investigate. After learning that the laborer was really an undercover government agent, Margot sneaks into the society to inspect the coffins and find proof. Wang and Nordin catch her in the act, tie her hands and feet and open a trap door. Before they can eliminate her the same way they did the laborer, The Shadow arrives to save Margot, while the police and federal agents start pounding on the front door.

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