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The Shadow presents “Death in a Minor Key,” an archival episode of the classic radio mystery series The Shadow. This local archival recording is presented with limited surviving production details. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:17 Original Broadcast 30:20 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “Death to the Shadow,” originally broadcast March 12, 1944. In this Mutual Broadcasting System adventure, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane. Professor Petro’s experimental television-like machine can observe distant locations across the city—but when criminals discover it can reveal the otherwise unseen Shadow, the invention becomes a dangerous weapon. With Margo in jeopardy, the Shadow must confront enemies who seem able to anticipate his every move. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:53 Original Broadcast 30:23 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “The Caverns of Death,” originally broadcast August 21, 1938. Commonly cataloged as episode 134, this surviving summer-series installment stars Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Margot Stevenson as Margot Lane. When 17 students vanish during a tour of the Temple of Vulcan caverns, Cranston and Margot investigate an apparent underground disaster with no sign of its victims. Steam-ringed craters, hidden passages, and troubling clues lead The Shadow deep beneath the American Southwest. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:49 Original Broadcast 30:20 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “The Man Who Was Death,” originally broadcast February 29, 1948. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, stars Bret Morrison as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Grace Matthews as Margo Lane, from a script by Alfred Bester. After a secret radium experiment goes disastrously wrong, a desperate scientist becomes the focus of a dangerous citywide search. With Commissioner Weston involved, Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane race to prevent fear and desperation from claiming more victims. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:55 Original Broadcast 24:32 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “Death Is Blind,” originally broadcast November 20, 1938, as episode 147. In this Mutual Broadcasting System drama sponsored by Blue Coal, Bill Johnstone stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane. At a county fair, Lamont and Margot encounter Walter Dunn, a blindfolded young sharpshooter performing under the watchful eye of the unsettling Dr. Franz Leighton. When a troubling pattern touches executives at the Jordan Process Company, the Shadow follows the trail behind a series of apparent suicides. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:46 Original Broadcast 30:09 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “Horror in Wax,” originally broadcast February 26, 1939. Episode 161 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal series stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane. Commissioner Weston brings the Shadow an unnerving apparent murder case: the victim—and the central clue—seems to be a lifelike wax figure of a woman. As Cranston and Margot investigate, a baffling mystery takes shape in the shadows. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:44 Original Broadcast 30:18 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “Death Imported,” originally broadcast December 21, 1941. Episode 237 stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane. An escaped criminal launches a campaign of terror against the officials connected to his capture and confinement. As danger closes in, Cranston investigates threats that lead from a state hospital for the criminally insane to a frighteningly elaborate death trap. Written by Sidney Slon and Peter Barry, this Mutual Broadcasting System episode was sponsored by Blue Coal. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:49 Original Broadcast 30:35 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “Death Keeps a Deadline,” originally broadcast on Mutual on November 1, 1942. This Blue Coal-sponsored episode stars William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane. After Lamont humiliates Eddie “Rabbit” Burke, a timid small-time crook, Rabbit receives frightening news that changes his outlook—and makes him dangerously unpredictable. As violence mounts, Lamont, Margo, and the police must uncover what has turned a lifelong coward into a deadly threat. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:51 Original Broadcast 30:30 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

From The Shadow: “The Touch of Death,” originally broadcast May 19, 1946. Commonly cataloged as episode 372, this Mutual Broadcasting System production was sponsored by Blue Coal and stars Bret Morrison as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane. When Lucius Hawkes claims to possess a deadly touch—and knows Lamont Cranston’s connection to the invisible crimefighter—Lamont is forced into a dangerous game of pressure, threats, and deception. Written by Stedman Coles, this suspenseful remake of a 1943 Shadow story places Cranston’s civilian identity and those around him in peril. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:45 Original Broadcast 29:55 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “The Voice of Death,” originally broadcast on December 8, 1940. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is listed as episode 205 and stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane. Lamont and Margo venture into the Louisiana bayous to visit Arthur, an old friend living in isolated seclusion. A decaying house, strange animal sounds, and Arthur’s unnerving experiments draw The Shadow into a case involving altered voices and dangerous attempts to tamper with nature. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:55 Original Broadcast 24:24 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “The Dreams of Death,” originally broadcast on Mutual on April 28, 1946. Episode 282 of the series, this Blue Coal-era mystery stars Bret Morrison as Lamont Cranston and Lesley Woods as Margo Lane, from a script by Stedman Coles. At a lonely house perched above the ocean, a terrified widow dreams that her husband, lost in a sailing accident, has returned from the sea to claim her. As strange clues gather around the cliff-top home, Lamont and Margo investigate a haunting that may be more than imagination. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:41 Original Broadcast 30:06 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “Traffic in Death,” originally broadcast September 25, 1938, and cataloged as episode 53. This Mutual Broadcasting System drama marked the beginning of Blue Coal’s sponsorship of the series. At Memorial Sanitarium, a string of unexplained hemorrhage deaths prompts Dr. Randolph Lee to seek Lamont Cranston’s help before suspicion becomes public scandal. William Johnstone stars as The Shadow, with Agnes Moorehead as Margo Lane, in a tense medical mystery written by Alonzo Deen Cole. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:45 Original Broadcast 29:52 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

From The Shadow: “Death and the Black Fedora.” The original broadcast date and episode number are not supplied with this local archival recording. No reliable plot synopsis or production credits accompany the available source, preserving this episode as an archival presentation of the classic mystery series. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:15 Original Broadcast 29:41 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “Nightmare at Gaelsberry,” originally broadcast on February 2, 1941. Often listed as episode 213, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama was sponsored by Blue Coal and stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Marjorie Anderson as Margot Lane. When Margot’s debilitating headache draws Lamont Cranston to Gaelsberry, a mental institution in crisis, the Shadow finds danger behind its locked doors. With the inmates in control, he must confront a growing threat before more lives are endangered. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:40 Original Broadcast 30:09 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Shadow presents “Death and the Crown of Odalph,” originally broadcast January 2, 1949. Script number 356 in the Street & Smith records, it is also listed as episode 467 in some old-time-radio logs. When a historian is murdered, Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane are drawn into the mystery of the jeweled Crown of Odalph, an artifact tied to an ancient Viking legend and a chilling supposed curse. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane, in a Peter Barry script originally heard on Mutual and sponsored by Blue Coal. The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:52 Original Broadcast 27:26 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-shadow-old-time-radio--7217858/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio