A megalomaniac terrorizes a community to gain control of a Mexican goldmine that has a twenty year old curse on it.  Commentary on the Latin culture views on the Devil.

Superman arrives to negotiate for the missing Kryptonite with Phillips not knowing that Jones has set a deadly trap for Superman as he has dissolved the two Kryptonite pieces from the Laugher in the small inkwell. Commentary on a common question when Superman confronts Kryptonite. Plus, why Superman's identity was finally revealed in 1946!

A burglar has struck seventeen times and continues to commit new crimes taking in thousands of dollars.  He is finally caught but the detectives learn his home address is really a vacant lot.  Commentary on Jack Webb's exclusive feature in McCall's- a woman's fashion magazine.  Plus, why Rosie O'Donnell failed in her takeover of the magazine.

Mr. Jones now has the dissolved Kryptonite and guarantees that Superman will perish.  Meanwhile, Kent and Batman await the call from Jones to get his instructions to retrieve the Kryptonite. Commentary on the the other person who needed a break from this show.

A murderer threatens to kill his attorney if he turns him in.  The attorney, seeing an opportunity to be rid of him, agrees to help him by devising an elaborate plan to fake his death. Commentary on stars Herbert Marshall and Norman Lloyd.

Margot and Lamont discover the body of an East Indian gentleman locked in the lounge car liquor cabinet of a transcontinental train. The magnificent diamond called the Giant of Madras he had with him, however, has disappeared.  Commentary on the evolution of The Shadow as well as the logic in his powers.  Plus, the one thing he does in this episode that he has never, ever done before.

A ventriloquist’s wife and his assistant kill the man but his dummy lives on for revenge.  Commentary on some of the great movies and television shows featuring split personalities with ventriloquist dummies.

Kent, affected by the deadly contents of Kryptonite in the letter Jimmy holds in his pocket, passes out while driving and crashes through the bridge rail into the waters below.  Commentary on the villains' declaration of absolute victory always going wrong.

The elusive Jones, who discloses who the Crescent and Star organization is, has a proposal for the Laugher to obtain one of the two last pieces Kryptonite from him so he can destroy Superman.  Commentary on the real reason Kryptonite was created as the one substance that could destroy Superman.

A writer who wants to get rid of his wife asks her to record a suicide note that he will use for the leading character in the play he is writing which is about a woman in an unhappy marriage who wants to end it all.  Commentary on the unusually illogical storytelling in this episode.  Plus, the most ineffective sound effects mistake.