Looking For Kryptonite Part 09: The Adventures of Superman (December 14, 1945)

“Looking For Kryptonite Part 09” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 14, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Batman and Robin, captured by a crew of armed men after being lured to a nightclub, are taken to a large house and questioned by Mr. Jones, who wants to know how they came to hold a coin engraved with a crescent moon and star. They refuse to say and are led into a windowless basement chamber called Room Zero, where the ceiling is slowly lowering toward them. Meanwhile Superman, searching for them after they vanished from the Golden Lily nightclub, learns from a waiter that they left without eating and had another appointment. This is part nine of the Adventures of Superman serial, and it is the Kellogg's sponsored radio series of 1945-12-14. The transcript ends before the story is resolved.

A nightclub called the Golden Lily, a tree-lined country lane, and a large old house at the end of it where a basement room called Room Zero is located.

Characters: Batman, Robin, Superman, Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones, Gloria Garrett, Clark Kent, Squeely Evers

Listen for: Mr. Jones questioning Batman and Robin about the crescent coin, and the ceiling of Room Zero slowly descending toward them.

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.