The Headless Indian Part 19: The Adventures of Superman (November 19, 1942)

“The Headless Indian Part 19” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 19, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Superman, disguised as Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are back in Metropolis after the Hudson Bay mystery of the headless Indians. They are shopping for a gift for editor Perry White, who is recovering from his injuries in hospital. Jimmy suggests a plastic cast of an Indian on a pony, a copy of the statue The End of the Trail, which the group takes to White's home. The cast is given to White at a dinner held for him, and he places it in his library. Later that evening, the statue is found smashed on the floor of the library, and Clark notices that the window to the terrace is open while the curtains are still. Clark concludes that the statue was deliberately swept from the table, and the group is left to wonder who did it and why.

Metropolis, in the home and library of editor Perry White, after the Hudson Bay region of Northern Canada

Characters: Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Niles Graham, Benson

Listen for: The discovery that the plastic Indian statue has been smashed in White's library, and Clark's reasoning that someone deliberately knocked it off the table

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.