Candy Meyer's Big Story - Part 01: The Adventures of Superman (August 22, 1946)

“Candy Meyer's Big Story - Part 01” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 22, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Perry White arrive at the waterfront bungalow of private detective Candy Myers, who had phoned Kent promising a major news story. They find Candy badly beaten in his backyard and rush him to the hospital. Candy is too weak to explain much, but he hints that his injuries are tied to a subway investigation. When the two men return to his room, the detective has vanished from the hospital, and the doctor cannot account for it. The episode is part one of a serial, and the transcript ends before the mystery is resolved.

Metropolis: a waterfront bungalow, a taxi, and a city hospital

Characters: Clark Kent, Perry White, Candy Myers, Dr. Ross, John Grayson

Listen for: Candy Myers' hints about the subway investigation, and his sudden disappearance from the hospital

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.