The $5 Million Gold Heist - Pt 04: The Adventures of Superman (December 2, 1940)

“The $5 Million Gold Heist - Pt 04” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 2, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Lois Lane, reporters for The Daily Planet, pursue the disappearance of a freight car carrying five million dollars in gold. They suspect Mr. Fortune, secretary to the president of the Metropolis National Bank. When they confront the bank president, Mr. Van Doren, Fortune is found dead in his locked office, which can be reached only through Miss Bailey's outer office. Inspector Nealey takes charge of the investigation and questions the bank staff about how the body came to be there. Kent and Van Doren describe what they saw, and Miss Bailey recounts finding Fortune on the floor. Then Lois and Miss Bailey vanish from the room, and the inspector is left with another impossible disappearance.

The Metropolis National Bank and the Daily Planet, Metropolis

Characters: Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Mr. Van Doren, Mr. Fortune, Miss Bailey, Inspector Nealey

Listen for: Miss Bailey's account of finding Fortune on the floor by the lobby door, and the inspector's questioning of Van Doren and Kent about who passed through the outer office

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.