Broadcast September 17th 1950 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by Grove Laboratories (Fitch Dandruff Remover 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: Alfred Bester
Announcer: Andre Baruch
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Burt Brazier (Tom Elwood) Clair Niesen (Norma Jonas) Julian Noa (Edward Jonas) Santos Ortega (Commissioner Weston) and Evelyn Varden (Martha Jonas)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
The police are attempting to track down the person responsible for peddling dope on the society level following the suicide of Thomas Elwood, found with fifty ounces of heroin in his apartment. Having a tough time locating the Big Sell, Weston employs Cranston and Margot. The person responsible is Martha Jonas who has been stealing narcotics through her hospital connections and then peddling the dope to friends of her wheelchair-bound husband, Edward. When he confronts her with the facts, she creates an “accident,” killing her husband in a fall from a twenty-foot high terrace. Having witnessed the murder, her daughter Norma suffers from what is called hysterical recall. When Lamont discovers that Martha has covered every possible path leading to her guilt, he resorts to becoming The Shadow. It fools Norma into thinking she has received a visit from her late father. He re-enacts the murder scene so the police can use Norma as a witness to the crime to convict her mother of murder and distribution of narcotics.
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