What happens
Britt Reid, the publisher of the Daily Sentinel, and his valet Cato take on a criminal who is posing as the Green Hornet. The impostor has staged a payroll holdup at a factory and then a gas station robbery, leaving the police and the newspaper outraged. Reid, working in secret as the real Green Hornet, learns of a planned bank robbery and sets out to confront the man using the hornet's name. The episode is one of The Green Hornet radio series, first broadcast on March 4, 1944, starring Gayle Gordon as Britt Reid, and Cato is played by Raymond Wilson. The episode continues to follow the chase through the city's waterfront.
A city, including a factory on the edge of town, a newspaper office, police headquarters, a city national bank, and a waterfront neighborhood.
Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Michael Axford, Sergeant Burke, Slick, Spike
Listen for: The impostor's scheme to wear a Green Hornet mask and blame the crimes on the real Hornet, and Reid's determination to stop him.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.