The Shadow - "The Man Who Murdered Time" (01-01-39)

The Man Who Murdered Time (01-01-39)

A man of mystery who was "never seen, only heard," The Shadow was also the first multimedia sensation and helped propel the young Orson Welles into the national spotlight. The famous character was also portrayed on radio by James LaCurto, Frank Readick, Carl Kroenke, Bill Johnstone, John Archer, Steve Courtleigh and Bret Morrison. The readers of Walter Gibson's pulp novels knew The Shadow as a master investigator who operated under the cover of darkness as he commanded a small army of agents in his war against the underworld and white-collar criminals. Radio listeners knew him as Lamont Cranston, "wealthy young man about town who years ago in the Orient learned a strange and mysterious secret--the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him." However, The Shadow first materialized not as a crimefighting sleuth but as the sinister host and narrator of mystery stories adapted from the pages of the world's first detective fiction magazine.

THIS EPISODE:

January 1, 1939. Program #22. Mutual network origination, syndicated. "The Man Who Murdered Time". Sponsored by: B.F. Goodrich Tires. Possibly a syndicated version of the network program of January 1, 1939. A mad scientist, about to die, invents a time machine with the ability to repeat December 31st eternally. William Johnstone, Agnes Moorehead, Kenny Delmar, Ray Collins, Everett Sloane, Ken Roberts (announcer). 28:34. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.