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: Sidney Slon and/or Peter Barry
Announcer: Ken Roberts
Cast: Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane)
Synopsis:
Admitting himself to a private sanitarium, the famed John J. Whetherby suffers from nightmares in which he dreams of committing murders. After reporting his dreamt-of murders to Commissioner Weston, those in his dream die in the same manner he described. When Lamont is named as the intended third victim he sets himself up as bait to trap the real killer. The sanitarium’s Dr. Boyle, a shrewd woman, arrives to inject Lamont with a drug and then hypnotize him into committing suicide at three a.m. Late that evening, a few minutes after three, Whetherby wakes up, screaming from another nightmare. With witnesses racing into the room, Dr. Boyle asks what he has in his hand. Before she can get close to Whetherby, The Shadow forces her to open her own hand, revealing Lamont’s cigarette case. Dr. Boyle confesses her crime — her father was a rival inventor who died scorned, believing he was robbed of his invention. She hypnotized all of her victims into committing suicide, and planted evidence on Whetherby, who was hypnotized into believing he committed the murders in his dreams. Lamont later explains to Margot that he was never drugged — the needle never pierced his chest thanks to the protection of the cigarette case in his coat pocket.
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