Pillar of Fire at Graves End - Pt 03: The Adventures of Superman (August 9, 1940)

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“Pillar of Fire at Graves End - Pt 03” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 9, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Superman travels to the village of Graves End after reporter Lois Lane is called there by Lee Jenkins, who says a deadly pillar of fire is driving the people from their homes. Kent and Lane are taken to the house of Old Man Smith and his companion Harris, and that night Lois disappears from her locked room. Superman follows a secret passage beneath the house into the open, where he finds the pillar of fire and the two men on a cliff above. The villagers' elder and his men are at the center of the plot, and Superman must act quickly to save Lois and reach the truth before the mine is destroyed.

Graves End, a village near a cliff and an underground silver mine, with a pillar of fire rising from the earth

Characters: Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Lee Jenkins, Old Man Smith, Harris, the elder

Listen for: Superman searching the secret passage beneath the house and the pillar of fire on the cliff

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.