Intrigue on the Waterfront: The Green Hornet (April 8, 1944)

“Intrigue on the Waterfront” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 8, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Lyndon, a former naval navigator discharged in disgrace, has been hiding in a waterfront neighborhood, and Claire Amesbury asks Britt Reid to find him. Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, goes to the waterfront with his valet Kato and the Green Hornet, while federal agents and naval intelligence also track Lyndon and a group of suspected foreign agents. The Green Hornet is a radio drama series, and this episode aired on April 8, 1944. The actors are not named in the transcript.

A foggy, deserted waterfront harbor during the Second World War, including a motorboat near a dock, the regional naval intelligence office, Britt Reid's newspaper office and apartment, and the shoreline where a submarine approaches.

Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Barry Lyndon, Claire Amesbury, Pender, Inspector Martin, Sergeant Burke, Ashford

Listen for: Listen for Barry Lyndon's conversations with Pender and the submarine plot, and for the Green Hornet's arrival on the waterfront to confront the suspects.

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.