The Hate Mongers Organization Part 23: The Adventures of Superman (May 16, 1946)

“The Hate Mongers Organization Part 23” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 16, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jimmy Olsen, posing as a young hoodlum, has been caught by Frank Hill's hate-mongering gang and is bound and gagged in their car. Clark Kent and editor Perry White wait anxiously at the Daily Planet, where Clark has searched the city for his missing colleague. Meanwhile, Maria, the daughter of an organ grinder, reads a desperate note Jimmy dropped from a window and realizes he is in danger. Maria phones Clark Kent with the message, and the story builds toward the bridge where Jimmy is being taken.

Metropolis, including the Daily Planet offices, a slum apartment, and the Metropolis Bridge

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Frank Hill, Maria, Carl, Eric

Listen for: Maria reading Jimmy's note aloud to Clark Kent over the telephone, and the car arriving at the bridge where Jimmy is to be thrown into the river

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.