Prelude to Terror
Explosive light bulbs are part of a madman's plan to throw the city into darkness and chaos.
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Explosive light bulbs are part of a madman's plan to throw the city into darkness and chaos.
A wandering printer joins a struggling small-town newspaper and helps its owners expose corruption and rally the community.
An angel gives architect William Wumple the unsettling ability to see his own future.
The people of New London brand Steve Archer a coward because he refuses to carry a gun, but the Lone Ranger suspects that Archer’s behavior is tied to the accidental…
A wedding song causes elderly Miss Mary Loughkin to faint and finally reveal to Dr. Christian that she is really the once-famous opera singer Madame Lupina. Decades earlier in Moldavia…
Near the Rio Grande, Fernando Perez presents himself as a liberator while outside businessmen secretly try to exploit his movement to seize control of the region. The Lone Ranger confronts…
A young scientist's devotion to rigorous medical research carries him through ethical conflicts and personal tragedy as he tries to fight disease without abandoning his principles.
When $74,000 in gold certificates disappears from a bank, suspicion falls on a janitor whose seemingly simple manner keeps detectives guessing.
This Lone Ranger installment centers on “Election For Capitol,” the specific incident or character situation named in the archived episode listing.
Bing Crosby and the Yacht Club Boys supply the music while Hugh Herbert, Jane Withers, George Murphy and other guests join a youth-themed program of songs and comic sketches.
A freighter wreck blamed on a ghostly legend conceals a criminal plot that The Shadow sets out to expose.
A sailor betrayed and imprisoned escapes, reinvents himself as a wealthy nobleman, and methodically seeks revenge on the men who ruined him.
The program leaps five thousand years into humanity's past and then five thousand years into its future, using the enormous span of time to compare civilization across ages.
This Lone Ranger installment centers on “Johnny's Gold Mine,” the specific incident or character situation named in the archived episode listing.
Nearly seventy-year-old Will Grannis has spent most of his life sheltered by his devoted sister Hattie because an illness in youth was believed to have left him with a dangerous…
This Lone Ranger installment centers on “Texas Ranger Blackmailed,” the specific incident or character situation named in the archived episode listing.
After a British aircraft crashes in a remote Himalayan kingdom, its passengers become captives in a ruler's calculated plan for revenge.
A deadly cafe holdup in Los Angeles sends officers through several states in pursuit of the gang and the people helping them escape.
This Lone Ranger installment centers on “Minister's Courage,” the specific incident or character situation named in the archived episode listing.
A cynical newsreel cameraman becomes entangled with a young woman working secretly as an agent, drawing both of them into danger amid a war-torn desert setting.
A doctor using telepathic hypnosis for murder turns his powers against Lamont Cranston himself.
Skeptical old Peter Grimm dies and returns from beyond, struggling to reach the family and friends he left behind so he can resolve conflicts and help the people he loves.
Part 1 of the Lone Ranger storyline identified in the archive as “Black Caballero.”
Rivers End's council wants the condemned shanties of Paradise Flats torn down, but Dr. Christian refuses to displace the poor families until the town provides decent replacement homes. Contractor Grimshaw…
Part 2 of the Lone Ranger storyline identified in the archive as “Black Caballero.”
The brutal killing of a man found in a Los Angeles parking lot leads detectives through hidden relationships and earlier crimes surrounding the victim.
Part 3 of the Lone Ranger storyline identified in the archive as “Black Caballero.”
A cash-strapped princess's search for a practical solution to her financial troubles turns romantic when a swing-band leader enters her life and proves to have royal secrets of his own.
A blind man with an extraordinary sense of touch is kidnapped by criminals who want his help robbing banks.
Young actresses sharing a New York boarding house face rivalry, romance, heartbreak, and tragedy while competing for a place on Broadway.
Nine American soldiers are ordered to execute twenty-two unarmed enemy prisoners, forcing the men to confront obedience, conscience, and the morality of killing captives.
Unemployed and embittered Dan Smithers has little use for patriotic speeches until work on a Washingtons Birthday pageant forces him to study the real hardships behind the countrys founding. The…
An accidental proposal leaves Lum engaged to Bertha and desperate to escape the resulting party, while her armed father makes avoiding the engagement difficult.
Allen's comedy and musical variety hour culminates in a deliberately chaotic opera performance complicated by a mock murder.
This Lone Ranger installment centers on “Mysterious Wagons,” the specific incident or character situation named in the archived episode listing.
After a former lover leaves her, a woman poisons members of his family and is eventually arrested, though her confinement takes an unusual form.
This Lone Ranger installment centers on “Great Winston Repertory Company,” the specific incident or character situation named in the archived episode listing.
George Burns, Gracie Allen, Melvyn Douglas and Shirley Ross headline a brisk mix of music, celebrity banter and a deliberately over-the-top dramatic parody.
A smuggling operation disguises human beings as lifelike wax figures, drawing The Shadow into a macabre case.
A reckless veteran pilot returns to an airline operation, where dangerous weather, professional rivalry, and romance test his judgment.
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