Fur Smuggling Part 03: The Adventures of Superman (July 18, 1941)

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“Fur Smuggling Part 03” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 18, 1941. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Clark Kent, posing as a government agent, and his young companion Jimmy follow a forest trail after suspecting that two men claiming to be game wardens are running an illegal fur business. Along the way they discover a series of steel bear traps hidden under the snow, and Kent is caught in one of them. Jimmy frees him, and the pair then find a bundle of precious mink skins that appears to have been dropped from an airplane. They begin dragging it back toward their camp, while the smugglers watch them from a nearby shack. The Adventures of Superman, original air date July 18, 1941.

A snowy forest in the north, near a clearing where the travelers camp and a shack used by the smugglers.

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy, Batiste, Bull, Chuck

Listen for: The discovery of the steel traps and the bundle of mink skins, and Bull's plan to lure Kent to the shack.

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.