Looking For Kryptonite Part 18: The Adventures of Superman (December 27, 1945)

“Looking For Kryptonite Part 18” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 27, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Police Inspector Henderson hunt for the mysterious Mr. Jones, a criminal who has sworn to destroy Superman. Kent and Batman watch the apartment of Algernon Phillips, who claims to be Jones's twin brother, and see Phillips hand a package to a young Hindu boy. The boy slips away, and the pursuit leads to a drugstore where a different boy has been left holding the package. The package turns out to be empty. The episode is part eighteen of The Adventures of Superman, first aired December 27, 1945, and the search for Mr. Jones and the Kryptonite continues.

Metropolis, during a snowy winter night, including Phillips' apartment, a dark alley, the street, and a drugstore

Characters: Clark Kent, Batman, Inspector Henderson, Lois Lane, Algernon Phillips, Mr. Jones, Tara

Listen for: The atomizer package handed from Phillips to the boy and found empty in the drugstore

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.