Mutual
Mutual · 1937–1954
Broadcasts
439
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1937
The run
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.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
12 dated broadcasts across 18 years on the air, with 10 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1937, in original transmission order.
26 Sep 1937 · 29 min
20 Mar 1938 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 20 March 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
7 Aug 1938 · 29 min
1 Jan 1939 · 29 min
29 Oct 1939 · 24 min
24 Mar 1940 · 29 min
12 Jan 1941 · 29 min
23 Nov 1941 · 29 min
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 23 Nov 1941.
23 November
1941
NBC
Sunday
29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 November 1941.
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23 November
1941
NBC
Sunday
12 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 November 1941.
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23 November
1941
CBS
Sunday
29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 November 1941.
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Also on Mutual
Other series the network carried while The Shadow was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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