What happens
Joe Hatton, a convicted killer, escapes from the death house just before his scheduled execution, using a preacher's cloak and hat to get past the guards. Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, and his valet Cato hear the news while in the newspaper office. Hatton makes plans to hunt down the lawyer who prosecuted him and the Green Hornet, the masked crimefighter. The Green Hornet, played by Rick Reed in this 1944 episode of The Green Hornet, broadcast on October 3, 1944, is drawn into a murder case as the police search for the escaped prisoner.
A state prison death house, the Daily Sentinel newspaper office, Britt Reid's apartment, a hideout on Warhol Street, and the city's streets and small loan bank
Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Joe Hatton, Slug, Michael Axford, Sergeant Burke, Perry Oliver, Mary Oliver
Listen for: Hatton's plan to get revenge on the lawyer Oliver and the Green Hornet, and the sound of the Black Beauty car leaving the apartment building
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.