Last Of The Clipper Ships Part 15: The Adventures of Superman (April 7, 1941)

The Adventures of Superman, old-time radio on Stupid Potato

“Last Of The Clipper Ships Part 15” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 7, 1941. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

Listen to The Adventures of Superman free, live around the clock: every episode, in the order it first aired. No sign-up.

What happens

Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen sail aboard the Clara M, the last of the old clipper ships, heading south toward Panama. The ship has been troubled by a ghostly whistling, and a stowaway named Pug Flanagan has confessed to impersonating the phantom whistler. The crew grows mutinous and afraid, and Captain Barnaby tries to keep order. Jimmy confides in Clark that he overheard Barnaby speaking to the men, saying they had been paid to sign on and must wait for the right moment to take the ship. Clark and Jimmy go on deck to search the fog for the source of the whistling. This is the fifteenth part of the Superman radio serial, first broadcast in 1941.

Aboard the Clara M, an old clipper ship sailing south toward Panama through fog

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Captain Barnaby, Pug Flanagan, Scotty

Listen for: The eerie whistling on deck and Jimmy's account of what he overheard Barnaby say to the crew

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.