The Shadow — 1938
52 episodes broadcast in 1938.
January 2, 1938
Goddess of Death
A wave of suicides among the rich is blamed on a cursed temple idol; then the professor investigating it turns up dead.
The Shadow moves against a counterfeiting ring terrorizing a struggling neighborhood.
The Shadow hunts a spy ring wrecking shipyards and sinking submarines.
A ruthless businessman locks his partner in a burial vault, demanding a false confession before he kills him.
Someone poisoning the municipal water blames The Shadow by name, forcing the real one to expose the fraud.
Bribery charges are engineered to destroy a senator, and The Shadow works to expose the frame.
A guardian commits his young ward to an asylum, scheming to seize her inheritance.
A deranged old woman and her hunchback son hold four boys captive, while criminals share their sinister mansion hideout.
A hypnotist seizes control of an experimental flying torpedo and aims it at the War Department.
In a remote fishing village, a human-sacrifice cult has taken root in a wealthy widow's home.
A condemned man goads his brother into avenging him on everyone who sent him to the chair.
A brazen gang striking in broad daylight abducts one man, and the trail leads The Shadow into their ranks.
To spare his brother the electric chair, an Indian mystic seizes the Governor as a hostage.
The Shadow races to rescue Margot Lane from a gang of pyromaniacs.
When a sightless street singer is slain, The Shadow targets a ring that preys on the city's beggars.
A kidnapped psychiatrist, held aboard a foreign freighter, summons The Shadow by telepathy.
An island expedition sets out to explain a dozen disappearances in a stretch of ocean sailors call the Pacific graveyard.
Smuggled munitions turn a luxury liner into a floating powder keg when the conspirators decide to sink her.
A killer engineers his revenge from prison, arranging his victims among a wax museum's figures.
A phantom thief eludes every guard and leaves no ransom note -- until one of Margot's friends becomes a victim.
A star tenor loses his voice mid-opera, and each performance since has ended in a fatal 'accident'.
Enemy agents test a plague meant to wipe out the U.S. Army, and The Shadow must stop it before it spreads.
A death ray disguised as a mummy's curse strikes down all who enter a museum's Egyptian exhibit.
June 26, 1938
The Old People
Vanished airliners lead The Shadow to an Amazon madman whose serum ages its victims into decrepitude.
July 3, 1938
Voice of the Trumpet
A spiritualist who claims to read minds is secretly feeding two agents the War Department's secrets.
July 10, 1938
He Died at Twelve
A hanged man appears to live on, picking off the jurors who condemned him.
July 17, 1938
Reincarnation of Michael
A millionaire who fancies himself a 12th-century duke lures Cranston and Margot into a mad scheme at his castle.
July 24, 1938
The Mark of the Bat
A guardian breeds giant vampire bats to murder his ward before she can claim her inheritance.
July 31, 1938
Revenge on the Shadow
A crime boss and a Hindu mesmerist plot to turn a hypnotized Margot into The Shadow's assassin.
August 7, 1938
The Mine Hunters
A spy ring lays mines near the Panama Canal, and The Shadow moves to stop them.
August 14, 1938
The Hospital Murders
In Cairo, Cranston investigates why patients keep vanishing from the city's general hospital.
A cave-tour disaster hides a secret ruby mine deep beneath the earth.
A disgraced professor plans to detonate a bomb at his old school's graduation.
September 4, 1938
The Black Buddha
A shopkeeper will kill anyone to reclaim a far-eastern statue sold by mistake.
September 11, 1938
The Witch Drums of Salem
A 1692 witch-burning curse reaches down the generations to claim a reverend's son.
September 18, 1938
Professor X
A murdered scientist's disintegration machine is stolen, and Cranston must recover it before it is used.
Sanitarium patients are turning up drained of blood, and the doctor who summoned Cranston is murdered on arrival.
October 2, 1938
The Black Abbot
A lawyer's manipulated young client faces the chair for a murder the attorney himself arranged.
A blackmailer plunges the city into darkness with a stolen fog machine, threatening poison gas unless he is paid millions.
Shipwreck-faking pirates lure a rescue vessel and seize it -- with Cranston aboard.
In Haiti, a voodoo cult abducts a child, and Margot must pose as a priestess to win the boy back.
A crooked lawyer wins his clients' freedom only to press them into a chain of robberies.
The Shadow tracks an embezzler and his gang to their hideout on a remote island off Nova Scotia.
A lab accident blinds a doctor's assistant, and the doctor's revenge sets a deadly chain in motion.
November 27, 1938
Fountain of Death
A madman murders the scientist who perfected a serum for restoring youth.
A deranged composer threatens the city with a 'symphony of silence' whose loud notes trigger hidden bombs.
December 11, 1938
Murder by Rescue
An uncle hypnotizes his heir with a recording, turning an imagined rescue into real murder.
A prison tour goes wrong when a deranged guard straps a visitor into the electric chair.
December 25, 1938
Give Us This Day
A Dickensian miser skims an orphanage's funds until The Shadow pays a Christmas call.
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