The Pan-am Highway Part 08: The Adventures of Superman (December 1, 1941)

“The Pan-am Highway Part 08” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 1, 1941. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen, disguised as Inca Indians, join a band of native warriors together with editor Perry White, Lois Lane and their pilot Bronson. The group submits to capture and is led up Tupengato Mountain, where a boulder swings aside to reveal a tunnel into the hidden Inca kingdom. The prisoners are brought before the Inca chief and taken to a dungeon in the palace. Kent and White slip out at night to look around the courtyard, and a guard's approach forces them into a hurried retreat as the alarm sounds.

The Andes mountains, the ascent of Tupengato Mountain and the hidden Inca city beyond a rotating granite boulder

Characters: Clark Kent, Superman, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Lois Lane, Bronson, Kuva

Listen for: Whether Kent will reveal his true identity as Superman to save the group as the alarm sounds in the courtyard

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.