Old Time Radio: The Shadow - Spider Boy
0Broadcast: November 11, 1945
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:
A sad lonely young man who sits in his attic day after day, night after night spinning and weaving the beautiful cloth he sold, his only company a big spider in his room. Everyone thought he was he weird. A thought came to him that one day the spider would be able to spin a web strong enough to catch him a real friend...