Rent in Advance: The Green Hornet (March 25, 1947)

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“Rent in Advance” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 25, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, investigates a racket in which veterans are cheated out of money paid as deposits on furnished apartments that do not exist. A young veteran reports being swindled, and Reid's secretary Lenore Case and reporter Mike Axford begin to look into similar ads. Axford sets out alone to check a new apartment listing, and Reid and his valet Kato soon begin searching for him. The Green Hornet series, original air date March 25, 1947, is presented in this episode.

Downtown city, a police headquarters, the Daily Sentinel offices, and apartments and restaurants around the city

Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Lenore Case, Mike Axford, Sergeant Colston

Listen for: The ads for furnished apartments and the phone calls made from public phone booths

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.