Transcripts › The Adventures of Superman
The Adventures of Superman · March 25, 1940 · 11 min · 1,857 words
The transcript of “The Secret Empire”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast March 25, 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.
Machine transcript (may contain errors).
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, Clark Kent was traveling toward the mountain city of Diarrville with Lois Lane to investigate a curious chain of disasters and accidents that had held the city in a grip of fear for the past eight days.
But as they reached the tall bridge over the Jefferson River, leading into Diarrville, the bridge suddenly trembled and swayed. Below a scream does our automobile slid toward the guardrail and can't leap away in the darkness.
As our story continues, he has become Superman. Red cloak streaming in the wind, he plummets down through the night in a desperate effort to save the bridge, and prevent the car from plunging into the river below.
Listen. Bridge is shaking like a tree in a high wind. If I can get down under it and hold it, I know what's wrong. Here we are. The foundation's half gone. Blown apart, as if it had been hit by a shell or a torpedo, Those girders are just hanging loose.
If I can only put them back where they belong. I don't know. It's pretty far gone, but maybe I can make it. If I don't, the whole thing will fall off. Crash in the river.
Lois along with it. Now then, one more pull. Ah, made it. Twisted that steel work back into place. Now to return to Lois on the bridge, has Clark Kent. Up, up. What's happened? Where are the lights? So don't!
Pint! Pint! Oh, I mean, Miss Lane, are you all right? The bridge. What about the bridge? Oh, don't worry about the bridge. But what was it? What happened? I don't know. Maybe the foundation gave way in the flood.
35 more paragraphs, about 10 more minutes of the episode. Potato Plus is every episode on demand from any moment, every transcript in full and unlimited transcript search, for $5 a month.
Potato Plus opens soon: join the listKeep listening with Potato Plus: every episode, on demand, from any moment.
Potato Plus opens soon: join the listAll The Adventures of Superman transcripts · Search every transcript · The archive
New channels, the best find from the archive, and what is coming up. One email a week.