1952-5-11 Death is the Master

Broadcast May 11th 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: Max Ehrlich

Announcer: Sandy Becker

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

Music: Charles Paul

Synopsis:

One year after Tony Falco died of heart failure as he faced the electric chair, each of the five people responsible for his sentencing receive a death threat in the form of a letter signed “The Master.” The judge, the patrolman and the district attorney are found dead from apparent natural causes but Lamont and Margot, the fourth and fifth on the list, suspect otherwise. The Shadow questions the county coroner, who shrugs off the “natural deaths” too easily, and learns the truth: Tony Falco is alive. When the coroner used to work at the death house, he was blackmailed by Falco to give him a drug that provided a temporary rigor mortis. After he was pronounced dead, Falco went to Brazil for a year to hide out. Now he has returned, taking on the guise of a cripple and using a Bushmaster snake in his walking cane as his weapon of choice. Racing to Margot’s apartment, The Shadow knocks the cane out of Falco’s hand, releasing the snake. While Margot hides in the closet, The Shadow uses a chair to kill the snake, but not before the reptile adds Falco to its list of victims…

Note:

This episode was a rewrite of “The Master Strikes” broadcast on October 11th 1942.