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The Adventures of Superman · March 18, 1940 · 11 min · 1,815 words
The transcript of “The Prison Riot”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast March 18, 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! Superman! Superman walks the earth and mingles with men as mild spectacle Clark Kent, news reporter for the Daily Planet.
As our story opens today, Superman and his character of Clark Kent have just telephoned his story of the North Star mind to his editor, Perry White. White offers his congratulations and also gives Kent a bit of welcome news. Listen.
I'm all finished out here, Mr. White. Nice, Bill. Surprise? Every here of San Miguel Penitentiary? Or San Miguel, sure I've heard of it. So, if you would, don't you remember? Remember what? That's where they sent the wolf and keynote. The two fellows who tried to erect that train, the silver clipper?
Hey, that's right. What's the idea, Mr. White? Just this, Kent. We sent Lois Lane out to San Miguel to do a feed for one another. Oh gee, thanks, Mr. White. I forget it. Have a good trip, Kent.
Bye. Goodbye, Mr. White. Operator. Hello, operator. Is there a garage in town where I can rent a car? Yes. Kennedys? OK, please connect me. Hiring a car, Clark Kent heads out at once on the dusty road to San Miguel 50 miles away.
Meanwhile, in the prison itself, a strange unrest has taken possession of the men within the walls. All unknowing, the authorities escort Lois Lane on the tour of the prison. But even as Lois looks down from a window of the warden's office, two men fall casually into step in the exercise yard below. One is Kino. The
other, the dark sinister figure we have come to know as the wolf. All right, Kino. Just keep on walking. Not too fast and not too slow. We can tuck around the corner of the steam plant, boy. No, no. Better stay out and play in sight. Get this now you know the break is set for the day what time after supper in the dining hall
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