Looking For Kryptonite Part 14: The Adventures of Superman (December 21, 1945)

“Looking For Kryptonite Part 14” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 21, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Inspector Henderson track the criminal Mr. Jones after the dying Scarlet Widow reveals that he sold one piece of Kryptonite to a vulture and another to a fence. Found in a bookshop, a shattered silver-crusted atomizer leads the pair to a jewelry shop, where a clerk reveals a matching atomizer is being held for a customer. Waiting in a back office for the buyer, they are stunned to see Lois Lane at the counter. The Adventures of Superman radio series, a Mutual broadcast; no original air date or cast is given in the transcript.

Metropolis, December 1945

Characters: Clark Kent, Inspector Henderson, Lois Lane, Mr. Jones, Scarlet Widow, Dr. Baker, Thayer and Son clerk

Listen for: Clark recognizes the broken atomizer as Mr. Jones's, and Inspector Henderson and Clark are stunned to see Lois Lane at the jewelry shop counter.

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.