The Phony Restaurant Racket - Part 06: The Adventures of Superman (January 6, 1947)

“The Phony Restaurant Racket - Part 06” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 6, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Inspector Henderson wait in a hotel room for Professor Blessing and his henchman Froggy, who are planning to kill Dave Powers, a young man they swindled out of $2,000 and who can testify against them. Dave, meanwhile, is at home with his wife, Anne, uneasy about the threat and unaware that Froggy is nearby. Two police officers are posted outside his building, but the criminals have a plan to slip past them. The episode is part of The Adventures of Superman radio series, first aired on January 6, 1947.

A foggy city at night, including a cheap hotel, a boarded-up tenement across from Dave Powers' apartment building, and the couple's small two-room apartment.

Characters: Clark Kent, Inspector Henderson, Professor Blessing, Froggy, Dave Powers, Anne Powers, Sergeant Haley

Listen for: The professor's plan for Froggy to create a noise distraction so the police will leave the building, and the tense confrontation brewing at Dave Powers' door.

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.