WBW Theater

In this final episode you will discover the identity of old Claw Foot, the name of the man who rang the bell, what really became of grandfather Theodore Beverley, who the murderers were, who the grave looters were and what became of the famous collection of black pearls…

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: March 11, 1944

The story of Theodore Beverley’s priceless black pearls is whirling in to a great seething cauldron of sinister activity, Captain Friday vanishes, old Claw Foot kidnapped, old Mayor Friday lying right and left like a cornered pirate and the phantom church bell, where is it? What makes it ring so persistently? Listen now for further explanation to all these…

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: March 4, 1944

There had been many clues pointing to old Mayor Friday at the City Of The Dead all along, but now had he finally hanged himself and was it Claw Foot who left the black pearl for Phyllis? Not only these questions but also the whereabouts of Captain Friday will be revealed to you, listen…

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: February 26, 1944

The terror of old Claw Foot has descended on the old caretakers cottage. What of the girls peril alone in the presence of the wailing phantom? What of the ghoul caught digging in Ernie Morton’s grave? What of the skeleton that walks, the phantom church bell and the buried treasure of black pearls? Listen…

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: February 19, 1944

And now the very skeletons in the City Of The Dead are coming up out of their graves to identify themselves but what does the message mean, I am out of the grave marked Theodore Beverley but I am not his skeleton? And what has all this to do with the phantom church bell and old Claw Foot?

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: February 12, 1944

In the midst of the desperate happenings in the City Of The Dead has Jimmy Parker turned on his own companion Phyllis Carroll? And what about the phantom claw footed killer and the desecrated graves? Who was disturbing the dead and what did they expect to find save mouldering bones?

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: February 5, 1944

Why is it a corpse in the City Of The Dead vanishes almost as quickly as it is made? Why is this phantom creature haunting the vicinity of the caretaker’s cottage? And what’s happened to Captain Friday?

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: January 29, 1944

What was it that Jimmy Parker uncovered in the grave? What was the phantom at which Captain Friday shot? What will the old church ruins reveal by daylight?

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: January 22, 1944

What is the meaning of the phantom church bell? Why are Jimmy and Phyllis held prisoners? Who shot Mayor Friday and how and why? The mystery grows deeper and creepier…

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: January 15, 1944

There are 10,000 citizens in the City Of The Dead each with a white marble slab indicating each residence. The gates of the City Of The Dead have long been closed to newcomers. It is a city whose population has remained unchanged for the last 10 years and the mayor of this city is Joshua Friday some call him caretaker of the old cemetery in the valley but anyone who knows Joshua Friday at all calls him Mayor. He is the only living person in the City Of The Dead that is unless you care to include Lammy Fink a slow-witted fellow who does kitchen police duty and a little garden duty during the day and retires beyond its precinct at night.

The City Of The Dead lies in a tiny valley 25 miles from the suburb of a great city. It is off the main highway and completely isolated from the world. But now it’s 9 o’clock on a moonlit windy night in October…

Cast: Elliott Lewis

Broadcast: January 8, 1944