Girl in Peril: The Green Hornet (December 9, 1947)

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“Girl in Peril” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 9, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, learns that the racketeers Dryden and Gilpin have been arrested, and that Linda Travis, a reporter for the Sentinel, has been abducted by the gang in an attempt to secure their release. Reid works through the night with his staff to trace the gang members, and his valet Kato waits nearby. The episode is part of The Green Hornet radio series, which first aired on 1947-12-09.

A city, including the police commissioner's home, a drugstore, a basement apartment building, and the Daily Sentinel newspaper office.

Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Linda Travis, Dryden, Gilpin, Commissioner Higgins, Gunnegan, Lenore Case

Listen for: Reid's plan to trace the abductors using the message written on the restaurant plate.

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.