Old Folks at Home (reuse script of 400111): The Green Hornet (September 9, 1947)

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“Old Folks at Home (reuse script of 400111)” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 9, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Reporter Larry Lewis and photographer Mike Axford investigate the Green Tree Mental Hospital on behalf of the Daily Sentinel, after letters from former inmates describe poor conditions and questionable practices. Superintendent Miegel is calm and cooperative, but the old inmate Peasley gives the reporters a different picture. Meanwhile Britt Reid, publisher of the Sentinel and secretly the Green Hornet, takes an interest in the matter, and his faithful valet Kato assists him. The episode is an installment of The Green Hornet, which first aired on September 9, 1947, and its cast is not named in the material provided.

Daily Sentinel newspaper offices and the Green Tree Mental Hospital in the suburbs of the city.

Characters: Britt Reid, Larry Lewis, Mike Axford, Gunnegan, Miss Case, Miegel, Peasley, Kato

Listen for: Miegel's conduct around the reporters and what Peasley says about working at the hospital.

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.