Insane and Able: The Green Hornet (June 19, 1940)

“Insane and Able” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 19, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Reid, the young publisher of the Sentinel, sends a reporter named Sherman to pose as a patient at Rockridge, a state institution for the insane, to expose abuses there. Sherman is soon discovered and goes missing, and the superintendent, Murchison, claims he is a dangerous escaped maniac. Cato and Reid begin to unravel what happened to him. The episode is an installment of The Green Hornet, first broadcast on June 19, 1940.

Rockridge, a state institution for the insane, and the city newspaper offices of the Sentinel

Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Sherman, Murchison, Baker, Sally, Lebron, Senator Burke

Listen for: The gradual exposure of the abuses at Rockridge and the disappearance of the reporter Sherman

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.