The Shadow · August 7, 1938 · 27 min · 3,493 words
The transcript of “The Creeper”, an episode of The Shadow first broadcast August 7, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Shadow free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Who knows, Ruddy, who licked in the hearts of men? A shadow knows. Ladies and gentlemen, the Shadow's latest adventure starts in just a moment. Right now I want to tell you about a new kind of tire that will stop you quicker, safer on wet slippery roads than you've ever stopped before.
It's the new Goodrich, safety silver town with the amazing life-favorite treads that actually dries wet roads. In partial tests, made by the independent Pittsburgh testing laboratory, proved this fact beyond dispute. Not one of the regular or premium-plied tires of the Nurtis VI's largest tire manufacturers came up to the new Goodrich Silver Town in resistance to skid.
These exhaustive tests also proved that the new Silver Town averaged 19.1% more non-skid mileage than any other tire tested in its own price range, which means you get every six mile free. Equip your car with a good drink safely silver towel. Then you will know what it means to be saved by a silver towel stuck. The shadow of
a Montcranson, a man of wealth, a student of time, and a master of other people's minds, devotes his life to writing wrong, protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty. Using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies, Cranston is known to the underworld as the Shadow. Never seen only her as haunting to
superstitious minds as a ghost, as inevitable as a guilty conscience. The Shadow's true identity is known only to his constant friend and aide's Margot Lane. Today's story is The creeper. The dawn's barking you. I won't hurt you.
I'm just going to take you away. Away where nobody will ever find you. Nobody will ever find you. And you won't be lonely. There are other fine young ladies like your son, Francis and you.
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