The Hate Mongers Organization Part 16: The Adventures of Superman (May 7, 1946)

“The Hate Mongers Organization Part 16” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 7, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and cub reporter Jimmy Olsen work to protect members of a Metropolis building committee from a hate-mongering group, the Guardians of America, whose young henchmen, led by Muggs, have planned bomb attacks on local leaders. Jimmy has learned of a plot to rig a car engine with an explosive, but the intended target is unclear because the minister they first suspected owns no car. Father Sheen and the committee plan to lure out the group's hidden leader by staging a fake newspaper story about vandalized paintings. Meanwhile, the leader reads a Daily Planet article announcing a $10,000 donation from editor Perry White and begins planning a new attack. The episode is set in Metropolis during the Unity House fundraising effort.

Metropolis, during the campaign to build the Unity House community clubhouse

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Father Sheen, Muggs, Eric, Perry White, Dr. Leeds, Rabbi Stone

Listen for: The Guardians' leader calls Perry White, who is about to be targeted in a car bomb plot, and the plan to kill two enemies with one bomb.

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.