What happens
Britt Reid, publisher of the Sentinel, and his valet Kato investigate after State Senator Durham reverses his public stance on the Whippet Bill to legalize dog racing. Reporter Lenore Case suspects pressure from the gambler Jake Skillman, who is said to have obtained a doctored photograph of the senator at a gambling house. The Green Hornet operates in the shadows, and the case centers on blackmail, a threatened payment, and a trap set in the senator's home. The episode is from The Green Hornet series, first broadcast on March 9, 1948, with the story presented as part of the program.
A city, including the Ritz Hotel, the Daily Sentinel newspaper offices, a gambling house, and Senator Durham's home.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Senator Durham, Lenore Case, Michael Axford, Jake Skillman, Limpy Ryan, Commissioner Higgins
Listen for: Listen for the senator's shifting statements about the dog racing bill and the doctored photograph that Skillman uses to pressure him.
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.