Two pyromaniacs hold Margot Lane hostage and it's up to the Shadow to use his powers of psychological manipulation to rescue her.

Act 2 of tonight's story features Sam Spade looking for a valuable tooth that was smuggled into the US via some dental work in an unsuspecting patient who now has ended up murdered which we discovered right before the end of Act 1. Commentary on Sam Spade and why this hour long format is problematic after only two episodes.

Private Investigator Sam Spade is looking for a valuable tooth that was smuggled into the US via some dental work in an unsuspecting patient. Commentary on The Maltese Falcon and the new format.

Kent has no clue that Lois is in danger as she looks to expose this phony fortune teller in an inheritance racket. Commentary on real fortune teller scams of the 1940s.

George and Rudolph get tickets to the Homecoming football game at their alma mater and decide not to take the wives. When Liz and Iris catch their husbands in a compromising situation at the game on their television, they go undercover to get to the truth. Commentary on the final interview given by actor Jerry Hausner and his bitterness towards Lucy and Desi on how he was treated.

A man posing as a doctor is burglarizing homes in the city. Commentary on William H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Chief, who in this episode gives Dragnet and Jack Webb a citation for merit for the authentic portrayal of the LAPD. Parker modeled his tenure as chief after Dragnet.

When Lois investigates the source of this inheritance news, she tracks down the real beneficiary only to learn that the woman already knew of her inheritance. Commentary on the evolution of Superman's costume through the years.

An exiled megalomaniac Russian leader of a cold dreary island named Sakhalin intimidates his people through torture and random murder until one day the Czar sends a bureaucratic official to inspect the region. Commentary on mental disorders relating to different stages of sadism as .characterized by the lead in this episode. We also look at the czars of Russia and what caused their immediate downfall in 1917.

For the last three months, a lunatic huntsman has been torpedoing ships at sea from his pirate submarine. Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, reads about the disasters and investigates.

Tonight's story about a man with amnesia caught in a murder plot concludes with Act 2. Commentary on other adaptations of this story in very famous movies. Plus, our new narrator and star Robert Montgomery.