1944
January 5, 1944
Promotion #1
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Announcer Gayne Whitman's sales-audition record introduces the new serial, its creator Carlton E. Morse, and a reel of sample scenes.
January 6, 1944
Promotion #2
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A second audition plays an extended sample from A Coffin for the Lady, with Captain Friday and Skip Turner landing on a secret island off Canada.
January 8, 1944
The City of the Dead 1
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The serial opens as Captain Friday arrives at the graveyard his father tends, where something among the ruined church and its graves is badly wrong.
January 15, 1944
The City of the Dead 2
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A grave is opened onto a grisly discovery that deepens the mystery of the burial ground.
January 22, 1944
The City of the Dead 3
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Jimmy Parker's find in a grave, a phantom Friday fires on, and the church ruins by daylight all hint at a corpse that walked off on its own.
January 29, 1944
The City of the Dead 4
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The clawed-foot phantom returns to stalk the cemetery.
February 5, 1944
The City of the Dead 5
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A walking skeleton intrudes on Friday's investigation.
February 12, 1944
The City of the Dead 6
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A ghoulish presence turns up in one of the graves.
February 19, 1944
The City of the Dead 7
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Captain Friday himself vanishes, throwing the case into doubt.
February 26, 1944
The City of the Dead 8
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The clawed-foot figure is seized in a sudden kidnapping.
March 4, 1944
The City of the Dead 9
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Friday tracks the tolling bell of the abandoned church.
March 11, 1944
The City of the Dead 10
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The graveyard haunting resolves around a cache of hidden pearls.
March 18, 1944
A Coffin for the Lady 1
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Two soldiers waiting out a secret island mission off Canada are ambushed when a dying man staggers from the brush carrying a young woman.
March 25, 1944
A Coffin for the Lady 2
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The island's secret tightens around a coffin and the woman inside it.
April 1, 1944
A Coffin for the Lady 3
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The short story closes on the island's buried secret and its lady.
April 8, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 1
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Friday sails from San Francisco to French Indochina and the cobra-worshiping Cambodian interior.
April 15, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 2
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The party learns more about the hooded-snake cult shadowing the expedition.
April 22, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 3
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A deranged ruler at Angkor enters the chase.
April 29, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 4
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The trail leads to a temple guarded by gorillas.
May 6, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 5
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A living image out of Cambodian legend confronts the travelers.
May 13, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 6
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The party braves the terrors of a hollow mountain.
May 20, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 7
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Friday comes face to face with the beast at the cult's heart.
May 27, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 8
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A grim find proves to be something other than it first seemed.
June 3, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 9
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The expedition closes with its enemy amid fang and menace.
June 10, 1944
Cobra King Strikes Back 10
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The Cambodian adventure reaches its startling end.
June 17, 1944
Girl on Shipwreck Island 1
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Sent on from Saigon, Friday and Turner cross the South China Sea into pirate-haunted island waters.
June 24, 1944
Girl on Shipwreck Island 2
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The island's Spanish pirate proves a dangerous fighting man.
July 1, 1944
Girl on Shipwreck Island 3
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The tale ends as the cockney serving girl Gracie turns out to be far more than she seemed.
July 8, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 1
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Friday finds the mayor of tiny Holman dead on the beach and a second body tied to Carmel Ritz -- three deaths in a village of thirty.
July 15, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 2
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As another corpse walks, newcomers Gail and Martin Stanley arrive and Gail is dragged from a window by a skeleton.
July 22, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 3
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The nocturnal walking dead tighten their grip on Holman.
July 29, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 4
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Friday comes face to face -- and into conversation -- with one of the walking dead.
August 5, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 5
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One of the prowling dead is finally run down and captured.
August 12, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 6
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The origins of the prowling dead begin to come clear.
August 19, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 7
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Four more townsfolk are drawn into the ranks of the walking dead.
August 26, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 8
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A hanged man walks among the prowlers.
September 2, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 9
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The walking dead rise once more as the case nears its end.
September 9, 1944
Dead Men Prowl 10
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The mastermind behind the prowling dead reveals himself in the finale.
September 16, 1944
You'll Be Dead in a Week 1
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In Hollywood, Friday and Turner meet heiress Eve Carson, whose brother Wesley has collapsed and whose fortune has drawn deadly attention.
September 23, 1944
You'll Be Dead in a Week 2
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The stakes around the Carson fortune sharpen as a $20,000 gambit enters the case.
September 30, 1944
You'll Be Dead in a Week 3
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The three-part Hollywood story reaches its conclusion.
October 7, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 1
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The story opens at the neglected hillside home of archaeologist Dr. Julian English and his daughter Judith, bound for Chilean jungle terrors.
October 14, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 2
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The English household's ancient-mysticism danger deepens.
October 21, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 3
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The green-eyed murderess resurfaces to threaten the party.
October 28, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 4
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The expedition confronts a flesh-eating tree among the jungle's weird deaths.
November 4, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 5
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The Chilean-jungle ordeal presses on.
November 11, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 6
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The party pushes deeper into the land of the living dead.
November 18, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 7
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New terrors beset the English expedition.
November 25, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 8
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The jungle mystery advances toward its climax.
December 2, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 9
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The penultimate chapter of the Chilean adventure.
December 9, 1944
Land of the Living Dead 10
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The ten-part tale of ancient mysticism concludes.
December 16, 1944
It's Dismal to Die 1
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A telegram pulls Friday and Turner into the Dismal Swamp on a rescue case, setting them against a sinister trio -- Herr Docktor Eckhardt, Morales, and The Dummy.
December 23, 1944
It's Dismal to Die 2
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Bound in a swamp cabin, Friday and Skip are helpless to save the captive Julie as Eckhardt lays out his plans.
December 30, 1944
It's Dismal to Die 3
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The series ends as Eckhardt's Nazi underground railroad is broken and he turns his gun on Johnny Laine in the swamp's final reckoning.