Murder Trips A Rat: The Green Hornet (September 12, 1942)

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“Murder Trips A Rat” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 12, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Brit Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, and his assistant Kato investigate the shooting of racketeer William Stockman. Reporter Lolly Manning interviews Miss Robinson, a woman who has confessed to the killing, and notices an inconsistency about her engagement ring. Reid and Kato search Robinson's apartment at night, where they find a photograph and evidence that someone else had been there. The Green Hornet is heard in this 1942 episode of The Green Hornet, first broadcast on September 12, 1942, with Rick Reed in the lead role.

Present-day city, the offices of the Daily Sentinel newspaper, a women's jail, and an apartment building in a city during the early 1940s.

Characters: Brit Reid, Kato, Lolly Manning, Gail Dean, Mr. Lee, Miss Robinson, William Stockman, Chico

Listen for: Listen for the scene in Robinson's apartment, where Reid and Kato examine the scratches on the picture frame and find evidence the confession does not match.

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.