Fog in the Night: The Green Hornet (March 11, 1944)

“Fog in the Night” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 11, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Reid, the daring young publisher, and his valet Kato investigate a series of fatal accidents involving war-materials trucks on a hairpin curve west of the city. Reid suspects that a synthetic fog is causing drivers to lose control, and he begins to piece together how the sabotage is carried out. The story follows the Green Hornet's pursuit of the saboteurs as the two sides close in on one another near a deserted house on the highway. This is a 1944 episode of the radio series The Green Hornet. The cast is not named in the transcript, so no actors are credited here.

A west-side highway outside an unnamed city in wartime America, the offices of the Daily Sentinel, and a deserted house near the highway

Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Hans, Fritz, Laurie, Axford, Sergeant Burke, Gunningen

Listen for: The synthetic fog used to cause the truck accidents and the way Reid works out how it is made

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.