Candy Meyer's Big Story - Part 05: The Adventures of Superman (August 28, 1946)

“Candy Meyer's Big Story - Part 05” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 28, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent is searching for reporter Jim Olsen, who has been abducted after investigating a subway cave-in. Kent traces a phone number to a farm near the small town of Westbrook, fifty miles from Metropolis, and confronts building commissioner Clint Morgan there. Morgan denies any involvement, but Kent notices initials on the ashtrays that may point to the farm's true owner. Back at the Daily Planet, Perry White and Lois Lane are alarmed by urgent news from Clark Kent's office, where a dangling figure has been spotted high on a clock tower. The episode is part five of the Adventures of Superman serial, broadcast in 1946 on the Mutual network, with the series' standard cast and crew.

Metropolis and the small village of Westbrook, fifty miles away

Characters: Superman, Clark Kent, Clint Morgan, Jim Olsen, Perry White, Lois Lane, Candy Myers, Beanie

Listen for: Clark Kent confronting Clint Morgan at the farm and noticing the ashtray initials, then the alarm at the Daily Planet over the figure dangling from the insurance company clock

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.