Pink Wonderland: The Green Hornet (April 6, 1948)

“Pink Wonderland” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 6, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Reid, the young publisher known as the Green Hornet, works with his secretary Casey and reporter Michael Axford to expose gambling at Pink Wonderland, an amusement park run by Sneed. A reporter named Larry is trailing a woman who has been losing money at the rigged games, and Sneed's men soon target him. Larry's car is run off the road and burns, killing two people, and Casey and Michael are left without the photographs that would prove the gambling. The story then turns to a plan to force Sneed to confess, which the Green Hornet and Kato carry out at Sneed's house late at night. The episode is part of The Green Hornet radio series, and the lead actors are not named in the transcript.

Pink Wonderland, a gaudy amusement park in a county where gambling runs wide open, and the nearby city of the Daily Sentinel newspaper

Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Casey, Michael Axford, Larry, Sneed, Lefty, Mr. Morschke

Listen for: The plan to make Sneed confess, and the gas attack at Sneed's house

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.