Makeup for Murder

The Man Who Dreamed Too Much

The Man Who Lived Twice

The Man Who Murdered Time (Johnstone and Moorehead)

A mad scientist who is dying from a heart condition has created a variation of a time machine that causes time to go in a loop so that the same day forever repeats itself. Lamont’s will is strong enough that he’s aware of what’s happening, but he must hurry and switch the machine off before he succumbs.

The Man Who Was Death (Morrison and Matthews)

A scientist's experiment goes wrong and he ends up being saturated with radiation. He goes on a robbing spree to provide for his soon to be widowed wife, his mere presence being a danger to those he meets.

Mansion of Madness

The Mark of the Black Widow

Message from the Hills (Welles and Moorehead)

While on a South Seas island, Cranston receives a telepathic communication from a native telling him that a shipment from the local diamond mine is being robbed. The island's governor is skeptical, so he must intervene as the Shadow.

Mind Over Murder

Monkey Woman

Murder and the Medium

Murder at Dead Man’s Inn

Murder by a Corpse

Murder by the Dead

Murder from the Grave (Johnstone and Anderson)

A gangster who is a victim of a drive-by shooting from a rival gang is declared Dead On Arrival when he gets to the hospital. An eccentric doctor takes this opportunity to test his resurrection serum, but his test subject acts in a very ungrateful manner.

Murder in E-Flat

Murder in the Death House (Johnstone and Anderson)

The Shadow investigates a curious incident where an electric chair is rewired so that the executioner received the shock instead.

Murder Incorporated (Johnstone and Anderson)

Smoking becomes even more deadly when some enterprising crooks create and discretely sell matches treated with an undetectable poison.

Murder on Approval (Welles and Stevenson)

A scientist who is short on scruples has cooked up a deadly virus for use in biological warfare and has been hired by a foreign power to test its effectiveness on a U.S. Army base.

Murder on the Main Stem

Murder Underground (Johnstone and Anderson)

An old woman has been taking the occasional boarder to a nearby warehouse to distract the man-eating rat inhabitants while she loots the slot machines impounded there. One of these unfortunates was someone being looked up by Lamont and her evasive behavior catches his attention.

Murder with Music

Murderer’s Vanity

Murders in Wax (Welles and Stevenson)

During a tour at a waxwork museum, one of the dummies in a display of the arrest of a notorious gangster proves to be a real corpse. Cranston suspects that the killer plans to knock off the other prominent persons featured in the exhibit.

The Mystery of Madman’s Deep

The Night Marauders

Night Without End (Johnstone and Moorehead)

An extortionist obtains a smog-making machine and uses it to engulf the city in darkness. He demands to be paid five million dollars or he’ll throw something toxic in the mix.

Nightmare at Gaelsberry

The Nursery Rhyme Murders (Morrison and Matthews)

A mental patient with a child's mind makes an escape which is followed up with murders that each have a link to a nursery rhyme.

One Dead and Two to Go

The Oracle of Death (Johnstone and Anderson)

A man who was accidentally hit by Shrevie’s cab appears to be a bit out of joint with time, as he seems to think it’s a day later than it actually is and tells of crimes he says he read about which end up happening later. Lamont is more inclined to believe that he knows of them because he’s in on them rather than possession of any psychic abilities.

Out of This World

See Death is Just Around the Corner

Phantom Fingerprints (Johnstone and Anderson)

A veteran medical examiner is found murdered in his office and the only lead are the fresh prints of a knife thrower who was executed for murder several years back.

The Phantom of the Lighthouse

The Phantom Racketeer

The Phantom Voice (Welles and Moorehead)

A philanthropist Senator is on trial for the seeming absurd charge of accepting a bribe from a deceased gangster. But the case becomes unexpectedly solid when the prosecution presents some motion picture evidence of the alleged incident.

The Phantom Voyage

The Plot Murder (Welles and Moorehead)

An Army lieutenant is being court-martialed for attempting to sabotage the prototype "flying torpedo". But the Shadow investigates to see if there might be more to this.

The Plot That Failed

The Poison Death (Welles and Moorehead)

A man claiming to be the Shadow is poisoning the people of the city through unknown means. Lamont deduces that it's being done through the water system and uses this to narrow down the possible location of the flawed typewriter used to write the announcement note.

The Power of the Mind (Welles and Stevenson)

A spy has been torturing a scientist to tell him the formula of a new explosive, but instead causes his mind to snap. So he kidnaps a fellow countryman psychiatrist Lamont just met and demands that he repair the mental damage done.

The Precipice Called Death (Johnstone and Anderson)

A friend of Lamont's is alarmed when a strange man breaks in and attempts to strangle a servant, leaving behind a note that possibly refers to his shady past.

Note: This is the first episode to feature the cabbie Shrevie.

Prelude to Terror (Johnstone and Moorehead)

A gangster has a professor killed to obtain an explosive he’s developed. The explosive is then planted in light bulbs all over the city, leaving chaos and terror in their wake.

Preview of Terror

Reflection of Death (Morrison and Matthews)

A woman buys an antique mirror which she's told was once used to show people who were about to die and finds that that particular function seems to be still running.

The Return of Anatol Chevanic (Johnstone and Anderson)

A jewel thief notorious for his warning his victims beforehand and having a solid alibi when they get robbed is found murdered. His body is willed to a mad scientist and it's not long before he's apparently alive again and back in business.

The Return of Carnation Charlie

Revenge is Murder (Morrison and Strickland)

A jewel theft goes slightly awry when the gang leader is shot in the head and is ditched by the rest of the gang. But it seems that he managed to survive and is killing those who double-crossed him.

Review: This episode managed to avoid being too predictable and is quite good in its own right.- Webmaster

The Ring of Light (Johnstone and Anderson)

A ring prominent in Buddhist legend is the motive behind the murders of a Tibetan businessman and his stepson.

The Ring of Mahlalayee

The Ruby of Karvahl

Sabotage

Sabotage by Air

The Sandhog Murders (Johnstone and Anderson)

Several workers in a tunnel construction project are killed in a depressurization chamber when the air pressure in it drops too quickly. The Shadow investigates to see if a rival contractor was behind it.

See also Three to Die (Box 13).

Review: This is probably one of the most creative murder methods used on the show. Too bad that the motive was so cliché-riddled.- Webmaster

The Scent of Death

Séance with Death (Morrison and Matthews)

A wealthy man is killed before he can reveal information on a fraudulent spiritualism racket. When Lamont takes an interest in the case, the racketeers intend to take care of both him and Margot.

The Shadow Challenged (Johnstone and Anderson)

Someone who has managed to duplicate the mind clouding abilities of the Shadow is killing the professors who are translating a Hindu text and is claiming to be the Shadow.

The Shadow of Suspicion

The Shadow Returns

The Shadow’s Revenge (Morrison and Matthews)

A convict on death row manages to escape with the help of an outside accomplice, but before he leaves the area, he intends to settle a score with Lamont.

Shyster Payoff (Johnstone and Moorehead)

The Shadow attempts to gather enough evidence to convict a slick defense attorney and his crime syndicate associates.

The Silent Avenger (Welles and Moorehead)

A man sentenced to death for murder arranges for his neurotic brother, who was an expert sniper in the Army, to kill the judge, the jury, and the prosecutor who worked on his case.

The Society of the Living Dead (Welles and Moorehead)

Lamont looks into what he believes is a connection between a passport forgery ring and the supposed suicide of a broker linked to a recent stock swindle.

Spider Boy

Spotlight on the Duchess

Stake Out (Morrison and Matthews)

A gangster is out for blood when he’s told that Cranston has killed his younger brother.

The Stockings Were Hung

Suicide League

The Temple Bells of Neban (Welles and Moorehead)

An East Indian dancer Lamont once knew is peddling a powerful narcotic. The Shadow must tread carefully, as she claims to have the power to destroy his mind-clouding abilities.

The Tenor with the Broken Voice (Welles and Stevenson)

During the premiere of an opera, the voice of the tenor performing the big aria at the end of Act One cracks. At subsequent performances, tragic accidents befall whichever tenor is singing that aria at that time, which seems too big a coincidence to the Shadow.

Terrible Legend of Crownshield Castle

The Terror at Wolf's Head Knoll (Morrison and Matthews)

An insane surgeon being transferred to a newly acquired rest home in the boondocks overpowers the orderly with him and has them switch roles. It's not long before an unsuspecting Lamont and Margot have to stop at their place.

See also The Kettler Method (Suspense).

They Kill with a Silver Hatchet

The Thing in the Cage

The Three Frightened Policemen (Johnstone and Anderson)

A gambler is murdered and the evidence points to a parole violator. When the suspect seemingly commits suicide, it all seems a bit too convenient to the Shadow.

The Three Ghosts (Welles and Moorehead)

A middle-aged friend of Margot's who recently got married to an eccentric researcher is having a hard time with the signs of hauntings in her new husband's creepy manor.

The Tomb of Terror (Welles and Stevenson)

An Egyptian tomb has been shipped in its entirety to the States, but when opened, the traditional curse appears to be still in effect. Lamont and Margot later learn that the autopsy of the victims revealed a complete loss of white corpuscles.

The Touch of Death

Traffic in Death

Trail of the Knifer

The Unburied Dead

Until Death Do Us Part (Morrison and Matthews)

The second wife of a shady nightclub owner discovers some letters which suggest that he murdered his previous wife.

Review: A story so badly plagued with huge leaps of logic and far-fetched coincidences that it could be an episode of Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons. -Webmaster

Valley of the Living Dead

Valley of the Living Terror (Morrison and Matthews)

Lamont and Margot head for the jungles of Africa to find a missing scientist. Instead, they meet an imposter who is conducting some unusual breeding experiments.

The Vengeance of Angela Nolan (Morrison and Warner)

The sister of a recently executed murderer has some phony evidence surface that would implicate Cranston in the killings.

The Voice of Death

Voodoo

The Wailing Corpse

The Walking Corpse (Morrison and Woods)

A woman asks Lamont to locate her missing brother who got involved with a voodoo cult. Shortly thereafter, members of the cult are found strangled with the prints of an executed killer on their necks.

The Werewolf of Hamilton Mansion

When the Grave is Open

White God (Welles and Stevenson)

The Shadow and Margot go off to the South Pacific to find out what's behind a rash of ship disappearances.

Review: Apparently many consider this a classic, but I don't see why. Not only is it far-fetched even by Shadow standards, but the racial stereotyping is a bit much.- Webmaster

The White Legion (Welles and Moorehead)

A bold group of vigilantes with suspect motivations have kidnapped the prosecutor assigned to a case concerning the murder of a gangster.

The White Witchman of Lawaiki

The Wig Makers of Doom Street

The Witch of the Crescent Moon