Looking For Kryptonite Part 06: The Adventures of Superman (December 11, 1945)

“Looking For Kryptonite Part 06” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 11, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Batman and Robin, disguised in tattered clothes, follow the informer Squeely Evers through the foggy Metropolis waterfront. Their pursuit leads them into an ambush set by hired thugs, whom they overpower and turn over to the police. At headquarters, Inspector Henderson reports that the men admit only to being paid to attack them. Clark Kent suggests the informer may have passed word of the pair's movements through someone else, and he and the heroes drive back to retrace Squeely's route. The series, from The Adventures of Superman, is part six of a search for missing pieces of Kryptonite, which Superman believes could be used to create a new Atomic Man.

Metropolis, on a foggy night along the waterfront and at police headquarters

Characters: Batman, Robin, Clark Kent, Squeely Evers, Inspector Henderson

Listen for: Kent's reasoning about how Squeely could have passed word of Batman and Robin's movements, and the coffee shop where the informer stopped

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.