The Female of the Species: The Green Hornet (August 15, 1944)

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“The Female of the Species” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 15, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Captain Perry Hartwell is kidnapped by Nazi agents after a Consulate reception, where he met the young woman Edna Lynette. Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, and his valet Cato trace the case through a doctor's prescription slip and a lost evening bag. Michael Axford, a reporter, joins the investigation while police search for the missing officer and a murdered cab driver. Dr. Radner, the agents' leader, directs the operation from an abandoned freight depot. The Green Hornet appears on the scene, and the pieces of the plot begin to fall together. This 1944 episode of The Green Hornet stars the cast of the series.

Wartime American city, including the Consulate reception, the Sentinel building, Dr. Radner's office, and an abandoned freight depot near the river.

Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Michael Axford, Lenore Casey, Captain Perry Hartwell, Edna Lynette, Dr. Radner, Frida

Listen for: The prescription slip and the lost evening bag that lead Britt Reid toward Dr. Radner and the Nazi agents.

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.