Fur Smuggling Part 05: The Adventures of Superman (July 23, 1941)

“Fur Smuggling Part 05” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 23, 1941. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent, a reporter for a metropolitan newspaper, searches the snowy woods for his friends Jimmy Olsen and Batiste after they have gone missing. Earlier, the smuggler Bull left them bound inside a dark cave. Kent finds the smuggling shack empty and questions the gang member Chuck, who turns out to be connected to the plot. Chuck admits that Bull has been running a fur smuggling racket and that a pilot called Frenchy drops off bundles of skins. Kent confronts Chuck, who tries to trick him, and the two men pursue the trail toward the cave. Meanwhile, Jimmy and Batiste face an approaching bear in the darkness. The Adventures of Superman is an old-time radio serial, and this is Part 05 of its fur smuggling storyline, first aired on July 23, 1941.

Snow-covered forest near a smuggling shack and a dark cave

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

Listen for: Clark Kent's questioning of Chuck and the sounds of the bear approaching Jimmy and Batiste in the cave

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.