The Secret Menace Strikes - Part 09: The Adventures of Superman (August 13, 1946)

“The Secret Menace Strikes - Part 09” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 13, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent works to revive publisher John Grayson in a village doctor's home after Grayson was pulled from a storm-tossed sea. Grayson has lost the will to live, and Clark urges him to help find the missing editor Perry White. Meanwhile at the Metropolis Daily Planet, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen fear an editorial attacking the World Peace Federation will run in the next edition. Boris Archenko, the pressman, tries to halt it, but a mysterious man named Homer Smith and his armed men take control of the press room. The episode ends with the next edition about to go to press and the editorial still set to appear on page one.

Metropolis and a small coastal village about 100 miles away, including Dr. Agnew's home and the Daily Planet offices and press room

Characters: Clark Kent, John Grayson, Dr. Agnew, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Boris Archenko, Homer Smith, Perry White

Listen for: Clark's urgent questions to John Grayson about where Perry White is, and Boris's account of Homer Smith's threats in the press room

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.