The Howling Coyote - Pt 05: The Adventures of Superman (December 23, 1940)

“The Howling Coyote - Pt 05” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 23, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen are visiting the ranch of Comanche Joe, a wealthy Indian oilman in the far west, to gather material for a story on mysterious howling coyotes. Jimmy has been badly hurt after being thrown from a horse, and the doctor is twenty miles away over the mountain in a blizzard. Tumbleweed Jones sets out with the injured boy through the snowstorm, hoping to reach the doctor. Kent, having learned of the danger, resolves to act, and Superman takes to the air to search the frozen mountains for the two of them. This episode is the fifth part of the 1940 radio serial The Adventures of Superman, first broadcast on December 23, 1940, and the lead actors are not named in the transcript.

A ranch in the far west, the surrounding snowbound mountains, and a blizzard

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Superman, Comanche Joe, Tumbleweed Jones, Jerry

Listen for: Superman searching the mountains for Tumbleweed Jones and Jimmy Olsen in the blizzard

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.