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.
This episode was adapted and recorded for broadcast in Australia by Grace Gibson Productions and is included in The Shadow Volume 1
Written by: Stedman Coles
Announcer: Don Hancock
Cast: Steve Courtleigh (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Laura May Carpenter (Margot Lane)
Synopsis:
Eight thousand dollars of the police fund and Commissioner Weston’s reputation are involved in an apparent ghost yarn. Cardona is held on suspicion of larceny when the funds for poor kids he withdrew from the bank vanish before he arrives at the police station. As victims of a similar robbery, Lamont and Margot suspect a stranger on the streets asking for a light is hypnotizing people so he can pick their pockets. When Commissioner Weston’s assistant, Muriel, is found dead in a hotel room with Cardona’s gun and a matchbook bearing a cloaked image of The Shadow from behind is found on the scene, Commissioner Weston blames the series of crimes on The Shadow. Lamont places an editorial in the newspaper to rout out the pickpocket and then makes arrangements for Margot to bring the police to an abandoned warehouse on River Street where the confrontation gets ugly. Cardona has been beaten horribly, and Paul attempts to eliminate The Shadow by turning out the lights and finding the outline of the invisible avenger. Forced to defend himself, Commissioner Weston fires two shots in rapid succession and Paul drops dead, moments after learning that neither Cardona nor The Shadow were involved.
Listen to the Australian broadcast
Note:
The script for this episode was published in Sanctum Reprint #112 Death Token & Three Stamps of Death
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