The Man Without a Face - Part 03: The Adventures of Superman (March 20, 1947)

“The Man Without a Face - Part 03” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 20, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent, the mild-mannered reporter, searches for a man named Philippe after finding a slip of paper with the address 25 Rue Frontenac in a battered typewriter belonging to Bucky Taylor, the missing son of a murdered foreign correspondent. Kent questions a pet shop proprietor and a doctor, neither of whom admits knowing the man, and then travels to the rooming house at that address. There he finds Herbert Corkins of Scotland Yard lying bound and gagged in the attic room, and the man Kent sought is nowhere to be seen. The part heard here ends with the mystery deepened and Kent's search still unresolved.

Paris and southern France, 1940s, after the end of the Second World War

Characters: Clark Kent, Superman, Perry White, Bucky Taylor, Philippe, Herbert Corkins, Lieutenant Michaud, Monsieur Dorio

Listen for: The discovery of Herbert Corkins bound in the attic room at 25 Rue Frontenac, and the question of where Philippe has gone.

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.