ON THE AIR: February 25, 1940

 Another lost episode.  So what do I do?  Consult the enormous tome that is Martin Grams' "The Shadow: The History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930 - 1954".

This one involves two sunken submarines, a seaweed covered 'banshee' and a scuba diving Lamont Cranston.  Lamont nearly suffocates when the ghost smashes the life sustaining air apparatus, even though Shrevvy was left to monitor the equipment.  Of course, Cranston survives.  The subs are raised and a tour is given to Margot and Lamont.  The ghost reappears and Felix Wolf, the owner of the subs, goes topside to put an end to this ghost tomfoolery.  The ghost is exposed as the designer of the subs, a jealous man who then tries to blow them up but The Shadow stops him and all is right with the world once again.

ON THE AIR: February 18, 1940 UPDATE

 This lost episode of The Shadow was written by Sidney Slon and originally titled "Chasm of Death".  The story starts with the Bennington family forced to find shelter when a rainstorm washes out their picnic.  Predictably they find refuge in an old mill that happens to be the secret hideout of a group of counterfeiters.  The father is shot, their young son is forced to work for the rats and the mother is apparently held hostage.  The boy is caught up by the police who don't believe his harrowing tale and his mother's peril.  Shrevvy (or Shreve, as Mr. Grams, Jr. spells it) and Margot help put Lamont, aka The Shadow, in touch with little Jimmy who tells Cranston where to go.  Lamont is ambushed, The Shadow shows up, takes down the bad guys followed by Margot and the police.  They find Lamont trussed up like a Christmas turkey in another room.  Subsequently the trio receive checks for the reward but, in typical hero fashion, they turn them over to the mother to help, I assume, defray funeral costs and help raise Jimmy as a single mom.

ON THE AIR: February 18, 1940

No surviving recording that I can find.  I'll update this post when I can consult Martin Grams' "THE SHADOW: The History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930-1954".  Until then, only The Shadow knows.

ON THE AIR: January 28, 1940

 This is a missing episode, an all too common occurrence in the long history of The Shadow radio series.  The following plot summary is taken from the excellent and massive tome "The Shadow: The History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930 - 1954" by Martin Grams, Jr..

"Relieved of his job as chief chemist of the Brullick Company, Mitchell Hardis develops a drug that cause one to speedily age until death by what appears to be natural causes."

The antagonist is intent on conquering the world and with his cousin intend to eliminate the only person who can stop them... The Shadow.  They kill prominent persons and leave clews only our hero can pick up on.  This leads Lamont to visit Hardis and, shocker, he drinks coffee laced with the drug.  Margot gets an aged Lamont to a hospital and placed in a freezing chamber to inhibit the effects of the drug.  Margot is confronted by Hardis and given the usual choice... death by violence of by this weeks clever death device, in this case the aging drug.  The Shadow arrives and spoils the dastardly scheme and, realizing the jig is up, Hardis takes his own medicine.  How did Lamont come out of this sure fire death sentence?  Apparently the drug needs body heat to work and when he was placed in the freezer the drug simply evaporated and youth was restored.

This sounds so far fetched that it probably needs to be heard to be believed. 

Look what I found in my mailbox

Looking forward to referencing this tome while I listen to my collection of radio episodes.