What happens
Commissioner Weston is troubled by the White Legion, a band of masked men terrorizing the city, and the murder of William Devons. Assistant District Attorney Alton Parker is kidnapped in a department store while prosecuting gangster Red Collins. His wife Margot and Lamont Cranston, also known as the Shadow, follow clues to a waterside shack where a White Legion meeting is held. The episode is part of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and it aired on March 20, 1938, with Orson Welles in the role of Lamont Cranston.
A city in the late 1930s, including a department store, a city courtroom, a newspaper office and a fog-covered waterside shack on the bay.
Characters: Lamont Cranston, Margo Lane, Commissioner Weston, Alton Parker, Helen Parker, Hartley Clay, William Devons, Red Collins
Listen for: Listen for the courtroom scene, where a telegram-style message and a hidden voice expose the White Legion and the judge's role in it.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.