The Atom Man Part 06: The Adventures of Superman (October 17, 1945)

“The Atom Man Part 06” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 17, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent, who is Superman, anxiously waits for news of Toyfel, a brilliant Nazi scientist who has escaped with a fragment of kryptonite. In a German village near the Black Forest, Military Police Sergeant Bill Nelson and Corporal Harry Marks hear a broadcast describing a dangerous fugitive and realise a man at a local inn may be Toyfel. Their search of the inn leads to a gunfight in the dark dining room, in which Bill is wounded. Meanwhile, in a secret cave nearby, Toyfel and the chemist Professor Milker prepare a solution of dissolved kryptonite intended to create an atomic monster. This is a serial episode from The Adventures of Superman, broadcast on October 17, 1945.

Berlin, a village near the Black Forest in Germany, and a secret cave in the Black Forest

Characters: Clark Kent, Superman, Colonel Brilling, Sergeant Bill Nelson, Corporal Harry Marks, Toyfel, Professor Milker, Gottfried

Listen for: The gunfight in the dark dining room of the inn, and Toyfel's announcement that an atom man will be created within the hour.

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.