The Secret Menace Strikes - Part 03: The Adventures of Superman (August 5, 1946)

“The Secret Menace Strikes - Part 03” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 5, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen search for their editor, Perry White, after he fails to meet them at the Metropolis Hotel. White had been defying a new owner of the Daily Planet, Homer Smith, who ordered the paper to attack the World Peace Federation. Clark and Jimmy trace a taxi that picked White up outside the Baltzen Building, but the driver they seek cannot be found. Clark begins to suspect the cab was a disguised vehicle used to take White away. Clark asks Jimmy to go straight home for his own safety, but a mysterious phone call sends Jimmy back out into the night.

Metropolis, at the Daily Planet offices, the Metropolis Hotel, the Baltzen Building, and police headquarters, around the night of Perry White's disappearance

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Lois Lane, Inspector Henderson, Homer Smith, John Grayson

Listen for: Jimmy receives a phone call at home claiming to have a message from Perry White, and he rushes out despite Clark's warning

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.