The Shadow | Old Time Radio brings you classic mystery, crime, suspense, and supernatural adventure from the golden age of radio. Follow Lamont Cranston as he uses his mysterious ability to cloud men’s minds to battle criminals, uncover sinister plots, and bring justice from the shadows. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. The Shadow became one of radio’s most iconic mystery series, famous for its unforgettable hero, atmospheric storytelling, dangerous villains, and legendary opening. Rediscover classic old...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 29:47
The Shadow presents “One Dead and Two to Go,” originally broadcast February 1, 1948. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is program number 433 and…
Nov 12, 2026 · 30:35
The Shadow presents “The Bride of Death,” originally broadcast on March 6, 1938. This early Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is commonly listed as…
Nov 11, 2026 · 29:24
The Shadow presents “Can the Dead Talk,” originally broadcast March 19, 1939. Episode 164 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal-sponsored series stars Bill Johnstone as…
Nov 10, 2026 · 29:15
The Shadow presents “Death from the Deep,” originally broadcast April 3, 1938. This is episode 114 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, sponsored by B.F. Goodrich Tires,…
Nov 9, 2026 · 30:32
The Shadow presents “Death Takes the Wheel,” originally broadcast September 28, 1947. Episode 416 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal run stars Bret Morrison as Lamont…
Nov 7, 2026 · 26:39
The Shadow presents “The Oracle of Death,” originally broadcast on October 20, 1940. Episode 198 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal-sponsored series stars Bill…
Nov 6, 2026 · 30:25
The Shadow presents “Death in a Minor Key,” an archival episode of the classic radio mystery series The Shadow. This local archival recording is presented with limited surviving…
Nov 5, 2026 · 30:32
The Shadow presents “Death to the Shadow,” originally broadcast March 12, 1944. In this Mutual Broadcasting System adventure, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow,…
Nov 4, 2026 · 30:31
The Shadow presents “The Caverns of Death,” originally broadcast August 21, 1938. Commonly cataloged as episode 134, this surviving summer-series installment stars Orson Welles…
Nov 3, 2026 · 24:40
The Shadow presents “The Man Who Was Death,” originally broadcast February 29, 1948. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, stars Bret Morrison as…
Nov 2, 2026 · 30:16
The Shadow presents “Death Is Blind,” originally broadcast November 20, 1938, as episode 147. In this Mutual Broadcasting System drama sponsored by Blue Coal, Bill Johnstone…
Nov 1, 2026 · 30:23
The Shadow presents “Horror in Wax,” originally broadcast February 26, 1939. Episode 161 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal series stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont…
Oct 31, 2026 · 30:45
The Shadow presents “Death Imported,” originally broadcast December 21, 1941. Episode 237 stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane.…
Oct 30, 2026 · 30:37
The Shadow presents “Death Keeps a Deadline,” originally broadcast on Mutual on November 1, 1942. This Blue Coal-sponsored episode stars William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The…
Oct 29, 2026 · 30:03
From The Shadow: “The Touch of Death,” originally broadcast May 19, 1946. Commonly cataloged as episode 372, this Mutual Broadcasting System production was sponsored by Blue Coal…
Oct 28, 2026 · 24:32
The Shadow presents “The Voice of Death,” originally broadcast on December 8, 1940. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is listed as episode 205 and…
Oct 27, 2026 · 30:13
The Shadow presents “The Dreams of Death,” originally broadcast on Mutual on April 28, 1946. Episode 282 of the series, this Blue Coal-era mystery stars Bret Morrison as Lamont…
Oct 26, 2026 · 29:59
The Shadow presents “Traffic in Death,” originally broadcast September 25, 1938, and cataloged as episode 53. This Mutual Broadcasting System drama marked the beginning of Blue…
Oct 24, 2026 · 29:49
From The Shadow: “Death and the Black Fedora.” The original broadcast date and episode number are not supplied with this local archival recording. No reliable plot synopsis or…
Oct 23, 2026 · 30:17
The Shadow presents “Nightmare at Gaelsberry,” originally broadcast on February 2, 1941. Often listed as episode 213, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama was sponsored by Blue…
Oct 22, 2026 · 27:36
The Shadow presents “Death and the Crown of Odalph,” originally broadcast January 2, 1949. Script number 356 in the Street & Smith records, it is also listed as episode 467 in…
Oct 21, 2026 · 26:17
The Shadow presents “Bubbling Death,” originally broadcast December 5, 1943. This surviving installment comes from the Mutual Broadcasting System’s 1943–44 Blue Coal season and…
Oct 20, 2026 · 30:33
The Shadow presents “The Isle of the Living Dead,” originally broadcast October 13, 1940. In this 197th episode of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, sponsored by Blue Coal,…
Oct 19, 2026 · 31:53
The Shadow presents “Appointment with Death,” originally broadcast on March 12, 1939, as episode 163 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series. This Blue Coal-sponsored…
Oct 18, 2026 · 32:34
The Shadow presents “Death Stalks the Shadow,” originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System on October 9, 1938. This is episode 55, season 2, episode 3, starring Bill…
Oct 17, 2026 · 25:30
The Shadow presents “Death Prowls at Night,” originally broadcast on Mutual on March 23, 1941. Episode 220 of the Blue Coal-sponsored series stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont…
Oct 16, 2026 · 30:00
The Shadow presents “Cold Death,” originally broadcast on December 19, 1937. This Christmas-season episode is identified as script no. 13 and is also cataloged as episode #099.…
Oct 14, 2026 · 30:29
From The Shadow: “The House That Death Built,” originally broadcast January 25, 1948. Common old-time-radio logs list it as episode 432, though some guides use alternate overall…
Oct 13, 2026 · 30:35
The Shadow presents “The Plot Murder,” originally broadcast February 27, 1938. This early Mutual Broadcasting System drama, sponsored by Blue Coal, stars Orson Welles as Lamont…
Oct 12, 2026 · 26:01
The Shadow presents “The Killers Rendezvous,” originally broadcast December 15, 1940, as episode 206. This Mutual Broadcasting System production, sponsored by Blue Coal, stars…
Oct 11, 2026 · 30:41
The Shadow presents “Dream of Death,” originally broadcast November 9, 1947. In episode 421 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal series, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont…
Oct 10, 2026 · 26:35
The Shadow presents “Dead Men Talk,” originally broadcast September 24, 1939. Episode 166 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, this Blue Coal-sponsored adventure stars Bill…
Oct 9, 2026 · 31:38
The Shadow presents “Death Hunt,” originally broadcast October 26, 1947, and identified as episode 419. In this Mutual Broadcasting System installment, sponsored by Blue Coal,…
Oct 8, 2026 · 29:07
The Shadow presents “The Chill of Death,” originally broadcast January 4, 1948. Commonly cataloged as episode 429, this preserved Mutual Broadcasting System broadcast was…
Oct 7, 2026 · 30:46
The Shadow presents “Preview of Terror,” originally broadcast June 5, 1949. Written by Frank Kane, this episode is cataloged as script-series number 378, though some audio…
Oct 6, 2026 · 30:37
The Shadow presents “Murder by Rescue,” originally broadcast on December 11, 1938. Common broadcast listings identify it as episode 64, or Season 2, episode 12, of the Mutual…
Oct 5, 2026 · 30:12
The Shadow presents “The Tomb of Terror,” originally broadcast June 19, 1938, and commonly cataloged as episode 125. In this Orson Welles-era production, Margot Stevenson…
Oct 4, 2026 · 30:30
The Shadow presents “Altar of Death,” originally broadcast March 15, 1942. Cataloged as episode 249 in some listings, this Mutual Broadcasting System adventure stars Bill…
Oct 3, 2026 · 30:49
The Shadow presents “The Comic Strip Killer,” originally broadcast November 23, 1947, as episode 425. In this late-period Mutual Broadcasting System mystery, Bret Morrison stars…
Oct 2, 2026 · 30:22
The Shadow presents “Dead Men Tell,” originally broadcast March 1, 1942. Cataloged as episode 247, this Mutual Broadcasting System adventure stars Bret Morrison as Lamont…
Oct 1, 2026 · 24:52
The Shadow presents “The House of Horror,” an archival episode of The Shadow. The original broadcast date and episode number are not supplied with this recording. The available…
Sep 30, 2026 · 29:59
From The Shadow, “Ghosts Can Kill” originally aired on January 15, 1939. It is episode 69 of the series (season 2, episode 17), written by Jerry Devine for the Mutual…
Sep 29, 2026 · 25:11
The Shadow presents “The Cat and the Killer,” originally broadcast January 12, 1947. In this 1946–47 season episode, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow, with Grace…
Sep 28, 2026 · 26:05
The Shadow presents “A Gift of Murder,” originally broadcast December 21, 1947, as episode 427. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston, with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane, in this…
Sep 27, 2026 · 27:16
The Shadow presents “Murder with Music,” originally broadcast on February 3, 1946. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, number 357, stars Bret Morrison as Lamont Cranston/The…
Sep 26, 2026 · 30:35
The Shadow presents “Fountain of Death,” originally broadcast November 27, 1938. This is episode 148 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, starring Bill Johnstone as Lamont…
Sep 25, 2026 · 27:34
The Shadow presents “Death in a Minor Key,” originally broadcast June 2, 1946, episode 374. In this Mutual Broadcasting System production, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston,…
Sep 24, 2026 · 25:10
The Shadow presents “Death Shows the Way,” originally broadcast on December 3, 1939. In this Mutual Broadcasting System adventure, sponsored by Blue Coal, Bill Johnstone stars as…
Sep 23, 2026 · 29:48
The Shadow presents “The Death Triangle,” originally broadcast December 12, 1937. It is episode 12 of the 1937–38 Orson Welles season, though some overall-series listings number…
Sep 22, 2026 · 14:48
The Shadow presents “Death by Imagination,” episode 394, originally broadcast January 26, 1947. This surviving archival recording is incomplete. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont…
Sep 21, 2026 · 26:36
The Shadow presents “Death on the Bridge,” originally broadcast March 3, 1940. Episode 189 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, sponsored by Blue Coal, stars Bill Johnstone…
Sep 20, 2026 · 30:56
The Shadow presents “Death Has Eight Arms,” originally broadcast November 2, 1947. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston, with Grace Matthews as Margot Lane, in a script by…
Sep 19, 2026 · 29:59
The Shadow presents “The Ghost Wore a Silver Slipper,” originally broadcast on April 7, 1946. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is listed as…
Sep 18, 2026 · 26:07
From The Shadow: “The Ghost Walks Again,” originally broadcast March 16, 1941. Episode 219 follows Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane into a small New England town haunted by…
Sep 17, 2026 · 28:01
The Shadow presents “A Mask for Murder,” originally broadcast on October 10, 1948. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is program 455 and stars Bret…
Sep 16, 2026 · 30:35
From The Shadow: “The Ghost That Gleams,” originally broadcast April 4, 1948 (episode 442). This late-run Mutual Broadcasting System mystery stars Bret Morrison as Lamont…
Sep 15, 2026 · 25:40
The Shadow presents “Murderer’s Vanity,” originally broadcast on March 17, 1940. This surviving Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is generally listed as…
Sep 14, 2026 · 29:32
The Shadow presents “Scent of Death” (also known as “The Scent of Death”), originally broadcast on February 2, 1947. Episode 395 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series stars…
Sep 13, 2026 · 30:34
The Shadow presents “Dragon’s Tongue Murders,” originally broadcast October 12, 1941. This is episode 227 of the series, starring William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow…
Sep 12, 2026 · 29:52
The Shadow presents “Makeup for Murder,” originally broadcast December 1, 1946. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston, with Joe Bates Smith credited as writer; the Mutual…
Sep 11, 2026 · 29:54
The Shadow presents “The Man Who Murdered Time,” originally broadcast on Mutual on January 1, 1939. Episode 153 features Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Agnes…
Sep 10, 2026 · 29:17
The Shadow presents “Prelude to Terror,” originally broadcast January 29, 1939, and commonly cataloged as episode 145. This Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars William…
Sep 9, 2026 · 30:20
From The Shadow, “The Ghost Without a Face” originally aired on March 10, 1946, as episode 362 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series. Written by Joe Bates Smith, it stars Bret…
Sep 8, 2026 · 29:35
The Shadow presents “Murder in E Flat,” originally broadcast December 4, 1938. Episode 149 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series features Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston/The…
Sep 7, 2026 · 30:20
The Shadow presents “The League of Terror,” originally broadcast January 9, 1938. Commonly cataloged as episode 102, this surviving Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Orson…
Sep 6, 2026 · 30:11
The Shadow presents “Murder on Approval,” originally broadcast June 12, 1938, as episode 124. This Mutual Network installment stars Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow,…
Sep 5, 2026 · 30:35
From The Shadow, “The Three Ghosts,” originally broadcast October 31, 1937. Episode 6 of the 1937–38 Mutual/Blue Coal season, this Halloween installment stars Orson Welles as…
Sep 4, 2026 · 30:27
The Shadow presents “Terror at Wolf’s Head Knoll,” originally broadcast February 15, 1948 (episode 435). This late-period Mutual Broadcasting System installment was sponsored by…
Sep 3, 2026 · 29:42
The Shadow presents “Mind over Murder,” originally broadcast March 31, 1946, as episode 365. Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston, with Lesley Woods as Margo Lane, in this…
Sep 2, 2026 · 30:25
The Shadow presents “Murders on the Main Stem,” originally broadcast December 15, 1946. In episode 388 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont…
Sep 1, 2026 · 27:40
From The Shadow, “Reflection of Death” originally aired on May 9, 1948, as episode 447. This Mutual Broadcasting System presentation was sponsored by Blue Coal and stars Bret…
Aug 31, 2026 · 30:13
The Shadow presents “The Death House Rescue,” originally broadcast September 26, 1937. This premiere of the 1937 Mutual dramatic series stars Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston/The…
Aug 30, 2026 · 30:21
The Shadow presents “The Hospital Murders,” originally broadcast August 14, 1938. This is episode 133 of the series, starring Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and…
Aug 29, 2026 · 31:13
The Shadow presents “The Fine Art of Murder,” episode 389 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, originally broadcast December 22, 1946. This Blue Coal-sponsored drama stars…
Aug 28, 2026 · 25:38
The Shadow presents “Sandhog Murders,” originally broadcast November 26, 1939. This Mutual network installment is episode 175 in OTRR Library numbering and stars Bill Johnstone…
Aug 27, 2026 · 30:07
The Shadow presents “The Ghost of Captain Bayloe,” originally broadcast February 5, 1939. In this surviving Mutual Broadcasting System adventure, Bill Johnstone stars as Lamont…
Aug 26, 2026 · 30:11
The Shadow presents “Murder by a Corpse,” originally broadcast October 31, 1948, as episode 458. In this Halloween-season mystery, Bret Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston/The…
Aug 25, 2026 · 26:04
The Shadow presents “The Diamond Murders,” originally broadcast October 8, 1939. Also listed as episode 168 in one numbering system, this Mutual Broadcasting System mystery stars…
Aug 24, 2026 · 29:56
The Shadow presents “Valley of Living Terror,” originally broadcast October 13, 1946. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is commonly listed as…
Aug 23, 2026 · 30:44
The Shadow presents “The Ghost on the Stair,” originally broadcast December 29, 1940. This is episode 208 of the series, starring William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and…
Aug 22, 2026 · 25:12
From The Shadow, “The Nursery Rhyme Murders” originally aired February 22, 1948, as episode 436. This Mutual Broadcasting System mystery was sponsored by Blue Coal, written by…
Aug 21, 2026 · 26:11
The Shadow presents “The Murder Underground,” episode 218 of the Mutual network series, originally broadcast March 9, 1941. This archival recording stars Bill Johnstone as Lamont…
Aug 20, 2026 · 30:24
The Shadow presents “The Ghost Building,” originally broadcast January 12, 1941. In this Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, Bill Johnstone stars as…
Aug 19, 2026 · 27:09
From The Shadow comes “Murder Incorporated,” originally broadcast December 17, 1939. Listed as episode 178, this Mutual Broadcasting System presentation was sponsored by Blue…
Aug 19, 2026 · 30:43
The Shadow presents “The Ghost of Caleb Mackenzie,” originally broadcast January 26, 1941. This is Street & Smith script number 100, written by Jerry Devine for the Mutual…
Aug 18, 2026 · 30:03
The Shadow presents “The Chess Club Murders,” originally broadcast February 23, 1941. Episode 216 finds Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane at the Black Rook Chess Club, in a Blue…
Aug 17, 2026 · 30:32
The Shadow presents “Poison Death,” originally broadcast January 30, 1938. This Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, is commonly listed as episode 105 and…
Aug 16, 2026 · 30:27
The Shadow presents “Murders in Wax,” originally broadcast May 15, 1938. Episode 120 of the Mutual network’s B.F. Goodrich-sponsored summer run stars Orson Welles as Lamont…
Aug 15, 2026 · 30:45
The Shadow presents “Dragon’s Tongue Murders,” originally broadcast October 12, 1941. This is episode 227 of the classic Mutual Broadcasting System series, starring William…
Aug 14, 2026 · 27:58
The Shadow presents “A Mask for Murder,” originally broadcast on October 10, 1948. This is episode 455 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s long-running mystery series, starring…
Aug 13, 2026 · 25:04
The Shadow presents “The Cat and the Killer,” episode 392, originally broadcast January 12, 1947. This Mutual Broadcasting System mystery stars Bret Morrison as Lamont…
Aug 13, 2026 · 30:30
The Shadow presents “Poison Death,” originally broadcast January 30, 1938. Commonly cataloged as episode 105, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Orson Welles as Lamont…
Aug 13, 2026 · 29:07
Originally broadcast 3/2/1941. In "Death Rides A Broomstick," The Shadow presents a classic mystery adventure filled with crime, suspense, hidden identities, and atmospheric old…
Aug 12, 2026 · 13:40
Originally broadcast 1/26/1947. In "Death By Imagination (Partial 1St Half Only)," The Shadow presents a classic mystery adventure filled with crime, suspense, hidden identities,…
Aug 11, 2026 · 25:41
Originally broadcast 12/24/1939. In "The Stockings Were Hung," The Shadow presents a classic mystery adventure filled with crime, suspense, hidden identities, and atmospheric old…
Aug 9, 2026 · 29:33
Originally broadcast 3/15/1942. In "Altar Of Death," The Shadow presents a classic mystery adventure filled with crime, suspense, hidden identities, and atmospheric old time…
Aug 8, 2026 · 25:10
Originally broadcast 12/15/1940. In "The Killers Rendezvous," The Shadow presents a classic mystery adventure filled with crime, suspense, hidden identities, and atmospheric old…
Aug 7, 2026 · 29:41
Originally broadcast 4/14/1946. In "The Unburied Dead," The Shadow presents a classic mystery adventure filled with crime, suspense, hidden identities, and atmospheric old time…
Aug 6, 2026 · 28:35
Originally broadcast 2/2/1947. In "Scent Of Death," The Shadow presents a classic mystery adventure filled with crime, suspense, hidden identities, and atmospheric old time radio…
Aug 5, 2026 · 24:17
Originally broadcast 1/12/1947. In "The Cat And The Killer," The Shadow presents a classic mystery adventure filled with crime, suspense, hidden identities, and atmospheric old…
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