Clan Of The Fiery Cross Part 05: The Adventures of Superman (June 14, 1946)

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“Clan Of The Fiery Cross Part 05” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 14, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jimmy Olsen, manager of the Unity House baseball team, recruits a Chinese boy named Tommy Lee as his pitcher, drawing the anger of a hooded hate group, the Clan of the Fiery Cross. Matt Riggs, the group's leader, plans to tar and feather the boy after his jealous nephew, Chuck Riggs, falsely claims Tommy tried to kill him. Chuck follows the clan truck to the Lee family's bungalow, where the hooded men seize Tommy. Frightened by what he has helped set in motion, Chuck tries repeatedly to telephone Clark Kent at home. The series is The Adventures of Superman, and this episode is part five of the serial.

Metropolis, in the Unity House baseball team's neighborhood, the Riggs house, the Lee family's bungalow, a drugstore, and a wooded riverside beyond the Metropolis River

Characters: Tommy Lee, Matt Riggs, Chuck Riggs, Jimmy Olsen, Clark Kent, Superman, Mr. Lee

Listen for: Chuck Riggs's repeated attempts to phone Clark Kent from the drugstore booth, and the clan's pursuit of Tommy Lee to the river

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.