Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer - Pt 05: The Adventures of Superman (June 5, 1940)

“Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer - Pt 05” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 5, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent, reporter for the Daily Planet and secretly Superman, searches the Arctic for explorer Alonzo Craig, missing for over three years. With Professor Peters, Kent enters the sunken temple of the Cunalaka tribe beneath the ice and finds a witch doctor who turns out to be Craig himself, changed and dazed. Their fire heats a mechanism that opens a hidden door in the ice, revealing a passageway. The witch doctor escapes, is later recaptured and bound, and the two men begin moving a treasure while waiting for their companion Captain Walder to return. Indians then approach the temple, leaving Kent and Peters in danger as the episode closes.

The Arctic, in the sunken temple of the Cunalaka tribe beneath the ice of a frozen valley

Characters: Clark Kent, Superman, Professor Peters, Alonzo Craig, Captain Walder, Ray Martin

Listen for: The witch doctor's transformation and the ice door that opens when the fire heats the mechanism

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.