Ramona: The Green Hornet (September 5, 1944)

“Ramona” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 5, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Reid, the young publisher of the Daily Sentinel, and his valet Cato look into a reporter's disappearance. Ed Lowry, a Sentinel reporter, is lured to a hotel lounge by a woman named Ramona, who calls herself Spanish and questions him about his newspaper work. Soon after, Lowry is missing, and Reid finds clues in the office and an apartment. The episode is part of The Green Hornet series, which first aired on September 5, 1944, and the lead actors are not named in the transcript.

Modern-day city of the 1940s, including the Daily Sentinel newsroom, a hotel lounge, and an apartment building.

Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Ed Lowry, Michael Axford, Ramona, Manuel, Lenore Case

Listen for: Listen for Ed Lowry's encounter with Ramona in the hotel lounge and the clues Britt Reid finds in the apartment.

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.