The Phony Housing Racket - Part 07: The Adventures of Superman (December 24, 1946)

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“The Phony Housing Racket - Part 07” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 24, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Art Duncan track down Frank Miller, a real estate salesman they believe swindled veterans in a housing racket, and force him to talk. Miller names Brock Nielsen as the racketeer behind the scheme. Clark leaves Miller with the police and goes to Nielsen's apartment, where Superman waits for him. Meanwhile Nielsen and his henchman Brownie wait in a cafeteria to learn whether the Daily Planet will run its story exposing the racket, while the editor Perry White is missing. This is part seven of The Adventures of Superman, a radio series whose lead actors are not named in the transcript and whose original air date of December 24, 1946 is given in the details.

Bunker Heights and Metropolis, including a real estate office, a highway gas station, the Daily Planet offices, and an apartment on Fargo Road.

Characters: Clark Kent, Superman, Art Duncan, Frank Miller, Brock Nielsen, Brownie, Perry White, Bill Burroughs

Listen for: Clark Kent forces Frank Miller to reveal the name Brock Nielsen, and Nielsen's wait for the Daily Planet's decision on the exposé.

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.