The Secret Menace Strikes - Part 08: The Adventures of Superman (August 12, 1946)

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“The Secret Menace Strikes - Part 08” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 12, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Clark Kent learns that his editor Perry White has vanished after refusing to attack the World Peace Federation in the Daily Planet, and that publisher John Grayson may hold the key to the mystery. Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen worry that an inflammatory editorial will reach print within the hour. Clark, changing into Superman, searches for Grayson in a violent hurricane over the Atlantic, where he finds the publisher's battered cabin cruiser and rescues him. Grayson is alive but barely conscious. The episode is part of The Adventures of Superman radio series, first broadcast on August 12, 1946.

Metropolis, the Daily Planet offices, and a stormy harbor and the Atlantic Ocean during a hurricane

Characters: Clark Kent, Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Homer Smith, John Grayson, Rufus Pelley

Listen for: Superman's struggle against the hurricane as he locates John Grayson's sinking cabin cruiser

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.