The Flood Part 06: The Adventures of Superman (August 14, 1945)

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“The Flood Part 06” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 14, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Superman searches for Lois Lane after she is taken captive by a convict who has seized a flood-hit village. Jerry Barber, a young boy from that village, has been rescued from the river and is recovering in a doctor's home, where he explains that Lois had sent him to warn the villagers. Superman sets out to find the hidden village and the convicts holding Lois, while the flood waters continue to rise around the area. The episode is from the series The Adventures of Superman, originally aired on August 14, 1945.

A flooded river region with a small village called Hilltop near Mammoth Falls, and the home of a doctor in a nearby town.

Characters: Superman, Lois Lane, Jerry Barber, Dr. Holmes, Marty Barber, Harry

Listen for: Jerry's account of the convict and Lois, and Superman's rescue of the villagers from the rushing river near Mammoth Falls.

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.