The Space Shell Part 07: The Adventures of Superman (February 20, 1945)

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“The Space Shell Part 07” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 20, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jimmy Olsen and Poco, injured after their space shell crashed near the North Pole, are found by two Eskimos, Utak and Nulier, who shelter them in their igloo. German soldiers arrive led by a colonel, who questions the strangers and suspects them of being American intelligence agents. Jimmy insists he is a newspaper reporter for the Daily Planet in Metropolis, and the colonel orders them taken away on dog sleds. Meanwhile, Clark Kent learns from Miss Backrack at the Daily Planet that a Coast Guard cutter, the Cartwright, reported seeing the space shell in the North Atlantic, and that the Cartwright has stopped answering radio calls. The Superman series continues in this radio serial, with the episode aired on February 20, 1945.

The frozen North Pole region, an Eskimo igloo, and the Daily Planet office in Metropolis

Characters: Jimmy Olsen, Poco, Utak, Nulier, Colonel, Corporal, Clark Kent, Miss Backrack

Listen for: The German colonel questioning Jimmy and Poco, and Clark Kent's conversation with Miss Backrack about the Coast Guard report

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.