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Torpedoes of Destruction

The Adventures of Superman · March 29, 1940 · 11 min · 2,034 words

The transcript of “Torpedoes of Destruction”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast March 29, 1940. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Adventures of Superman plays The Adventures of Superman free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Presenting the transcription feature, Superman! Up in the sky! Look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! And now, Superman! When we last saw him, Superman, as Clark Kent, had come to the town of Direville with Lois Lane to save it from the grim designs of the yellow mask, who had threatened to destroy it

unless the city paid him the huge sum of a million dollars within 36 hours. Kent has discovered that the mask intends to wipe out the mighty Harley Dam above the city and sweep away every living thing in the resulting flood.

But how the mask plans to break the dam, guarded as it is by heavily armed police, is still a mystery. Today, as our story continues, sudden terror has seized a small group standing on top of the dam, less than 12 hours to go before the end of the time limits set by the yellow mask,

but already strange rumbling shocks far below the surface of the water sound the warnings of disaster. Kent, Lois Lane, the City Commissioner of Direville, caught on the roadway of the dam, raced wildly for the shore.

What's that, a slave? No! Come on! Don't stop to look back! Oh, please! Is it going now? No. I don't think so. Take an easy commission. That noise, whatever it was, it's all over now.

What's that? Kent, I give you my word. I thought it was all over right past minutes. What was it? What happened? I can't imagine. That's a quick shock. Yes, or an explosion way down under the water.

Explosion, Karen. Say, it might have been at that. But why? Even if the mask is going to blow out the dam, we've still got 10 hours by his own word. That's right. Tell him at night tonight.

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