The Phony Inheritance Racket - Part 08: The Adventures of Superman (January 20, 1947)

“The Phony Inheritance Racket - Part 08” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 20, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Inspector Henderson trace a phone call to Zara's hideout, where Zara, a fortune teller and racketeer, has trapped Lois Lane and Miss Louisa. Superman arrives and frees them. Afterward, Lois returns to the Daily Planet, where editor Perry White receives a telegram from a local correspondent refusing an assignment in Freeville, the third such resignation in as many days. White is baffled by the drought story and the strange refusals. Lois insists on handling the Freeville story herself and sets out to investigate.

Metropolis, including a bungalow hideout on its outskirts, the Daily Planet offices, and the town of Freeville

Characters: Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Inspector Henderson, Zara, Nella, Pinky, Miss Louisa, Perry White

Listen for: The telegram from the Freeville correspondent and Perry White's reaction to it

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.