A gang uses a professor's time machine to travel into the past and bring William Shakespeare into the present, and use his ideas to commit crimes.; The Sandman is able to assist a new criminal who suffers from the lack of sleep and has taken up crime only because he hasn't had a wink of sleep in 40 years, and needs something to occupy the long nights!; Hourman and four people who are famous in the world of wealth and industry are invited to appear on The Radio Treasure Hunt Show, each having to retrieve some odd item, the first returning winning $1000. However, it is Rex Tyler (not Hourman) and Thorndyke who soon discover the pattern of resulting robberies occuring in the city, as they target the very people appearing on the show.