What happens
Britt Reid, the Green Hornet, faces a blackmail plot involving a letter that could expose old John Kingsley, a steel industrialist. His nephew Phil Kingsley meets a woman named Elsa Dorne, who lures him into a dangerous scheme. When newspaper reporter Michael Axford is caught up in events, Britt Reid and his valet Kato race to a lonely house on South River Road. The Green Hornet, first heard on WXYZ Detroit, was broadcast on the Blue Network, and this episode first aired on October 17, 1944.
Present-day city and suburbs, including a steel magnate's mansion, nightclubs, a hotel, the Daily Sentinel newspaper office, and a lonely house on South River Road, during wartime
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Phil Kingsley, Elsa Dorne, John Kingsley, Michael Axford, Latto, Bill Kingsley
Listen for: The moment Britt Reid and Kato burst into the South River Road house and the chase along the highway that follows
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.