1939-9-17 Conversation With Death

Broadcast September 17th 1939 syndicated for the summer by Goodrich Tires

This episode is included in Radio Spirits CD Set The Shadow: Weird Adventures

Written by:

Announcer: Ken Roberts

Cast: Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane)

Music: Rosa Rio or Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

Montgomery Latham invented a drug for the desire of vengeance, designed to put the victim into a cataleptic state giving all the appearances of death while the victim remains alive. John Porter becomes the first victim so Latham can prey on the grief of John’s wife and reap her as his reward. Learning that Latham had spent a number of years in the Orient, Lamont suspects foul play believing John a victim of a branch of hypnotic science which he himself learned there. Lamont attempts to break the force that holds John Porter in a death-like trance. Further investigation discovers the cause is a drug and The Shadow phones Commissioner Weston ordering him to dig John Porter’s body out of the grave. The police hurry and give the antidote to Porter to revive him. Latham attempts to escape but the police take him into custody.

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Note:

This was actually the last broadcast of the 1939 Goodrich Syndicated Summer Season. It was an original episode written to replace the 1938 Christmas episode "Give Us This Day" and was only broadcast on the syndicated channels.