Old Time Radio: The Shadow - Drums of Doom
Broadcast: March 19, 1944
The shadow was amateur criminologist Lamont Cranston. He had learned “the hypnotic power to cloud men’s minds so that they cannot see him”. The opening to the show, “Who knows … what evil … lllllurks … in the heart of men? … The Shadow knows! His “friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs”. Together they confront the maddest assortment of lunatics, sadists, ghosts and werewolves ever heard on the air. In this episode:
Henry Arthur Cole was known as, The Black Judge, and no wonder with a heart as black as his was! Even after his death, his reign of terror continues, when he comes back as a ghost, with an evil plan to murder his three children.