Elsie Thompson

Ep 178

A gang kills for hire...using deadly matches. Co-incidentally, the real "Murder Incorporated" was being tried, convicted and in the headlines shortly after this broadcast.

Ep 177

The Shadow tackles a real louse who burns horses alive to collect on their insurance. "Hoot" Cranston rides again! This recording has references to "Rufus," a negro sterotype, deleted.

Ep 176

A good story about the missing "Harvey Diamond," a phony Count, Lamont Cranston poisoned to death and a weird surprise ending.

Ep 173

A scientist's newly invented robot runs amok and kills the wife of the inventor. A different scientist has invented a competing robot; Margot Lane promptly disappears. This script was produced and broadcast in Australia on January 29, 1947 (see cat. #111746). In Australia, the pr…

Ep 172

During a violent storm, Lamont Cranston and Margot find shelter in a mysterious and just-by-happenstance nearby castle.

Ep 170

A carnival concession is a front for a kidnap ring and stock manipulation gang.

Ep 169

While on a picnic with Margot Lane, Lamont Cranston is unable to open a jar of olives! He says, "It's the toughest case I've ever had." The citizens of "Old Mill" are being killed by a strange disease. The cause? It's an "old hag" using her pet jackdaw as a flying killer!

Ep 168

The story is announced as above. However, just before the program went on the air, the title was changed to, "The Diamond Murders." Only on "The Shadow" would they dramatize a baseball team with a hunchback on the roster! At a night game, the pitcher is electrocuted!

Ep 167

Police suspect the Shadow of several apartment-house jewel robberies. In one of the series' looniest plot lines, the real criminal turns out to be a kindly gorilla, trained by an evil zookeeper. See cat. #11912 for a quality upgrade, syndicated rebroadcast.

Ep 166

A gangster seems to have disappeared and is thought dead. The first show of the season, parts of the network did not carry this show because of a basebll game.