Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 April 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1937–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 239
- Genre
- suspense
What evil lurks in the hearts of men? This upload contains 239 episodes of the great old time radio drama, The Shadow. The show aired for 22 years, from 1932 to 1954, and followed the exploits of amateur detective Lamont Cranston and his companion Margo Lane.
1954 · 11949 · 81948 · 261947 · 24
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 35 of 59Listenable · 17 of 59Rough but complete · 7 of 59
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
24 dated broadcasts across 18 years on the air, with 14 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Shadow The Cat and the Killer · 12 Jan 1947
- 2. The Shadow Death by Imagination · 26 Jan 1947
- 3. The Shadow Scent of Death · 2 Feb 1947
The Shadow The Vengeance of Angela Nolan
27 Jun 1954 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 27 June 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Shadow Preview of Terror
5 Jun 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 June 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Shadow Monkey Woman
29 May 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 29 May 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Shadow Death and the Easter Bonnet
17 Apr 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 17 April 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Shadow The Ring of Mahlalayee
13 Mar 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 13 March 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Shadow Unto Death Do Us Part
6 Mar 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 6 March 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Shadow Collectors of Death
27 Feb 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 27 February 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Shadow The Trail of the Knifer
20 Feb 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 20 February 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
17 Apr 1949
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 17 Apr 1949.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 17 April 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 17 April 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1937–1954
Other series the network carried while The Shadow was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Shadow
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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