The Mystery Ship Part 05: The Adventures of Superman (December 29, 1942)

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“The Mystery Ship Part 05” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 29, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Superman, disguised as reporter Clark Kent, boards a runaway tanker in the mid-Atlantic with Lois Lane, Perry White and Jimmy Olsen, after it rammed Dr. Cameron's submarine. The crew is dead or missing, and the ship drifts through fog. The friends split up to search the vessel, and Lois is left alone with a menacing figure in seaweed who attacks her. This is part five of The Adventures of Superman, first aired on December 29, 1942, with the series' standard cast and no further details given in the transcript.

A tanker drifting in dense fog in the mid-Atlantic, its pilot house, crew's quarters and engine room.

Characters: Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Old Man of the Seaweed, Nicodemus

Listen for: The seaweed-clad figure's threats against Lois in the engine room, and Superman's arrival to stop him.

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.