Yankee Dollars: The Green Hornet (July 4, 1943)

“Yankee Dollars” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 4, 1943. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Reid, the young publisher of the Daily Sentinel, is drawn into a dangerous affair when reporter Ed Lowry is approached on a late-night bus by a woman named Marlene Knight, who claims to be a German spy. Lowry follows her lead to an apartment where a frightened brother and sister reveal a network of Nazi sympathizers. The Green Hornet appears to help them, and the story turns on a list of names and a hidden safe. The episode aired on July 4, 1943, as part of the Green Hornet series.

Present-day wartime city, centered on the Daily Sentinel newsroom, a city bus, an apartment building, and the Bremler estate in Forest Hill

Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Ed Lowry, Marlene Knight, Carl Knight, Henry Bremler, Casey

Listen for: Marlene's account of the Nazi network and the list of names Lowry is given

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.