What happens
Joseph Dryden, secretary to Dr. Herman Wiley of the American Defense Foundation, passes secret information to Julian Kerry, who plans to profit from a defense project. Dr. James Hayward has completed the project in Arizona, and newspaper publisher Britt Reid is assigned to carry the plans east. Gangster Pete McCone is sent to intercept the scientist at the airport. The Green Hornet, a masked crime fighter, investigates the events that follow, from the shooting of Hayward to a murder at the foundation's offices. This is the Green Hornet series, first broadcast on November 26, 1952.
An American city and the surrounding outskirts, with scenes at an airport, a hospital, a defense foundation office, and a house on the edge of town.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Joseph Dryden, Julian Kerry, Pete McCone, Dr. Herman Wiley, Dr. James Hayward, Michael Axford
Listen for: Listen for Britt Reid's careful handling of the stolen plans, and for the moment Joseph Dryden's involvement in the theft begins to come to light.
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.