1942-10-18 The Riddle of the Endless Cave

Broadcast October 18th 1942 on Mutual at 5:30 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal" and syndicated for the summer by Goodrich Tires

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: Ken Roberts

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

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

While touring the caverns of Endless Cave, Lamont and Margot learn that their guide, Joe Turner, is one of three men who recently disappeared and there are stories of cavemen still living deep inside the unexplored caverns. Exploring the unexplored using chalk marks to guide them back, the sleuths soon find themselves lost among the tunnels with a laughing madman who changes the marks Margot left on the walls. The madman spends hours on and off preying on their emotions, suggesting they will become victims of the quicksand, bottomless crevices and treacherous whirlpools. Lamont eventually reveals the identity of the madman to be Professor Williams of the local university. Williams discovered nuggets of gold and was eliminating those who stumbled upon them, making them into limestone mummies in the ancient style of the Neanderthal cave man. The Shadow prevents the desperate professor from driving a pick ax into Margot’s head. When fleeing through tunnels, the professor accidentally falls into a bottomless pit. Following the stream of water, Margot and Lamont make their way out of the caves.

Note:

This episode would be rewritten as “Death Walks Underground” broadcast June 15, 1952.

This episode was adapted and recorded for broadcast in Australia as "Terror Travels Underground" by Grace Gibson Productions. This episode has not been released by Grace Gibson Productions.