1937-12-26 The Voice of Death (Spiritualist)

Broadcast December 26th 1937 on Mutual at 5:30 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal"

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. (See note)

Written by: Carl L. Bixby

Announcer: Arthur L. Whiteside or Ken Roberts

Cast: Orson Welles (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Agnes Moorehead (Margot Lane)

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

Zeta, a phony spiritualist, has tortured the mind of Ms. Eugene Van Dek, a wealthy widow, until she is on the verge of permanent, incurable insanity. Zeta and her two colleagues, Dude and Paddy, were hired by Ronald Langford, Ven Dek’s son-in-law, in the hopes that the widow changes her will so he will inherit her millions. The Shadow attempts to interfere, but Dude gets smart and sprays stray bullets about the room, wounding Lamont and locking him in the escape-proof room. Using his telepathic abilities, Lamont calls on Margot for help. Two days later, Margot has had enough of the beckoning and phones the police to visit Zeta’s office. The police make the arrests and Margot drives the wounded Lamont to a bridge where The Shadow pretends to be Mrs. Van Dek’s late husband. He convinces her that suicide is not the best way to join him. He then orders her not to contact him again, but to stick with her original intentions and care for their daughter. Mrs. Van Dek agrees and thanks her late husband for the advice.

Note: 

The script for this episode was published in Sanctum Reprint #42 Bells of Doom & The Murdering Ghost

An episode with the same title was broadcast on December 8th 1940, another episode with this title was broadcast on March 21st 1954.

According to the Wikipedia page for The Shadow Episodes this episode is preserved but has not been released anywhere. Whoever put the list together may have gotten it confused with the December 8th 1940 episode.