The Great Gildersleeve
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 November 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1937–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 439
- Genre
- suspense
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.
1947 · 21946 · 11945 · 11941 · 21940 · 11939 · 21938 · 21937 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 35 of 59Listenable · 17 of 59Rough but complete · 7 of 59
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
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.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1937, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Shadow 1937-09-26 (87) The Death House Rescue · 26 Sep 1937
- 2. The White Legion · 20 Mar 1938
- 3. The Shadow 1938-08-07 (132) The Mine Hunters · 7 Aug 1938
- 01
The Shadow 1937-09-26 (87) The Death House Rescue
26 Sep 1937 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
The White Legion
20 Mar 1938 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 20 March 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
The Shadow 1938-08-07 (132) The Mine Hunters
7 Aug 1938 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
The Shadow 1939-01-01 (153) The Man Who Murdered Time
1 Jan 1939 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
The Shadow 1939-10-29 (171) Phantom Fingerprints
29 Oct 1939 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
The Shadow 1940-03-24 (192) The Plot That Failed
24 Mar 1940 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
The Shadow 1941-01-12 (210) The Ghost Building
12 Jan 1941 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
The Shadow 1941-11-23 (233) The Ring of Light
23 Nov 1941 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “the-shadow-1938-10-09-141-death-stalks-the-shadow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
23 Nov 1941
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 23 Nov 1941.
The Dinah Shore Show
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 November 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Screen Guild Theater
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 November 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1937–1954
Other series the network carried while The Shadow was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Shadow
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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