BONUS - Super Summer: Superman vs. Kryptonite (Part 4)

Summary

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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

BONUS - Super Summer: Superman vs. Kryptonite (Part 4)

Podcast Host: Mean Streets Podcasts
Episode Date: July 1, 2026

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Episode Overview

This bonus installment in Down These Mean Streets' "Super Summer" series presents five original episodes (aired June 4–June 10, 1947) from the “Superman vs. Kryptonite” storyline. The saga sees Superman enduring forced exposure to kryptonite, resulting in amnesia, and stumbling into an unexpected new life. Meanwhile, a villainous conspiracy, led by George Latimer and Dr. Marsh, relentlessly pursues the confused Man of Steel, whose search for identity soon lands him in a very different kind of heroic spotlight.

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Key Plot Points & Discussion Topics

1. Superman’s Amnesia and Escape

• [00:00–04:00]
  • The episode opens with a mad scientist’s destructive act and the city in chaos.
  • Superman, held captive by Big George Latimer and Nazi scientist Dr. Marsh, is forcibly dosed with liquid kryptonite. This robs him of memory as well as his powers.
  • A storm causes a tree to fall, shifting the kryptonite out of range and allowing Superman to regain his strength long enough to escape, though still amnesiac.
    • Quote:
      "He got his strength back." — Narrator/Storyteller [05:01] "He has forgotten he can fly. Have I not told you? He has forgotten everything. Even who he is. He has amnesia." — Dr. Marsh [06:19]

2. The Man of Steel on the Run

• [12:22–15:15]
  • Superman, confused and unnamed, hitchhikes across the countryside, referred to as "Bud" by helpful drivers.
  • He is left alone in the rain, “looking about him blankly.”
    • Quote:
      "You don't look like a tramp. You don't talk like one either." — Truck Driver to Superman/Bud Smith [13:09]

3. The Hunt Intensifies: Friends and Foes

• [19:07–23:55]
  • Perry White, Inspector Henderson, and Lois Lane are desperate to find the missing Clark Kent. They suspect Latimer’s involvement but lack evidence.
    • Quote:
      "Latimer may be a big shot in state politics but I've got some influence around here myself. I'll find Kent if it's the last thing I ever do." — Perry White [20:13]
  • Simultaneously, Latimer deploys a detective agency to track Superman, knowing only that he’s lost memory and is in ragged overalls.

4. Arrested as a Vagrant

• [23:29–25:00]
  • Superman, still clueless about his identity, is arrested by Constable Toomey in a small village for vagrancy.
    • Quote:
      "You're a vagrant. I'm going to lock you up. Come on." — Constable Toomey [24:34]

5. Villains Close In

• [27:21–28:44]
  • Al McGuire, Latimer’s detective, sets a trap by contacting Constable Toomey, offering $5,000 for the “missing” man in ragged overalls.
    • Quote:
      "You wait right there, Constable. I'll be there in two hours with the young man’s father and with $5,000 in cash for you, okay?" — Al McGuire [28:25]

6. Superman's New Life: Baseball Sensation

• [33:36–39:33]
  • Superman escapes from jail by bending steel bars—startling his would-be captors. Now dubbed “Bud Smith,” he wanders into Gainesville and demonstrates inhuman skill as a baseball pitcher for the Colts, impressing all.
    • Quote:
      "Look, son, where'd you learn to throw a ball like that?" — Shorty Taylor [37:44] "I don't know. Did I do something wrong?" — Superman/Bud Smith [37:52]

7. Recognition, Doubt, and Missed Connection

• [41:22–56:05]
  • Perry White and Jimmy Olsen spot a photo of “Bud Smith,” the minor league phenomenon, and are convinced he’s Clark Kent.
  • They travel to see him play in Gainesville, marvel at his feats, and try to approach him.
  • Superman, bewildered by their attention, does not recognize them or his old life.
    • Quote:
      "Mr. Kent. Mr. Kent, look who's here." — Jimmy Olsen [54:42] "Why, no, I... I don’t think it’s me, Mr. Kent." — Superman (Bud Smith) [55:14] "Sorry, son. You've made a mistake." — Superman (Bud Smith) [55:35]
  • Jimmy is left in tears, Perry White disheartened.

8. Latimer Closes In & the Return to Metropolis

• [62:30–67:49]
  • Latimer and McGuire trace Superman to Gainesville.
  • Meanwhile, the Colts trade "Bud Smith" to the Metropolis Titans for $100,000, sending him on a train to the city—Latimer boards the train in pursuit, wielding a lead box containing kryptonite.

9. Cliffhanger: The Final Confrontation Looms

• [69:41–72:15]
  • On the train, Superman remains troubled and unaware, still searching for his true identity.
  • Latimer, with McGuire and the deadly kryptonite, prepares to confront him in his compartment.
    • Quote:
      "The lurching of the train jars the lid up for a brief instant revealing the jagged piece of green, glowing kryptonite within." — Narrator [71:50]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Superman's Amnesia:
  "He has forgotten he can fly. He has forgotten everything. Even who he is. He has amnesia." — Dr. Marsh [06:19]

• Jim Olsen’s Heartbreak:
  "Mr. Kent. Mr. Kent, look who's here." — Jimmy Olsen [54:42]
  "Why, no, I... I don't think it’s me, Mr. Kent." — Superman (Bud Smith) [55:14]

• Unmatched Baseball Feats:
  "Bud Smith has just struck out his 21st straight batter. That means he has set two new world records." — Announcer [51:04]

• Perry White’s Resolve:
  "I'll find Kent if it's the last thing I ever do." — Perry White [20:13]

• Constable Toomey Dreams of Riches:
  "$5,000? What are you talking about?" — Constable Toomey [27:32]

• Villain’s Threat:
  "Curiosity once killed a cat." — Big George Latimer [64:41], warning McGuire not to pry

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [00:00] – Recap of prior destruction and Superman’s jeopardy
• [04:00] – Escape during storm, the loss and pursuit
• [12:22] – Superman (incognito) wanders the countryside
• [19:07] – White and Henderson desperately push to find Kent
• [23:55] – Superman’s arrest as a vagrant
• [33:36] – Villains attempt to retrieve Superman at village jail
• [36:37] – First indication of Superman’s superhuman baseballism
• [41:22] – Perry White and Jimmy Olsen’s arrival in Gainesville
• [51:04] – Bud Smith sets world records
• [54:42] – Emotional meeting between White, Olsen, and Superman
• [62:30] – Latimer and McGuire coordinate for their last-ditch effort
• [69:41] – Superman and Shorty Taylor on the train; confrontation nears
• [71:50] – Latimer prepares the kryptonite aboard the train

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Tone & Style

The episode is steeped in 1940s melodrama, high stakes, and the relentless optimism and earnestness of Golden Age radio. Dialogue is rapid-fire, full of suspense, sincerity, and dramatic exclamations, even as it interweaves period-typical comic cereal promotions.

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Summary for New and Returning Listeners

Superman vs. Kryptonite (Part 4) is a classic serial tale combining amnesia-driven suspense, nefarious villainy, and the charm of old-time radio. Superman is stripped of his identity and powers by his enemies, drifts through small-town America, and achieves improbable new fame as the world’s greatest baseball pitcher—unaware of his true nature or peril. His friends search in vain, his foes close in with deadly kryptonite, and the cliffhanger leaves both the Man of Steel and listeners uncertain of his fate.

Tune in to follow this unique and riveting adventure, where the world’s greatest superhero faces his most personal struggle yet—not just to survive, but to rediscover himself.

Transcript

[Narrator]

True to his threat, the mad scientist whose warnings have held the city in a grip of terror went on his rampage of destruction on the stroke of midnight. The deadly impact of his mysterious ray smashed the famous Tower Bridge, hurling cars and pedestrians into the river below. The police have warned everyone to remain in their homes.

[Announcer]

This looks like a job for Superman.

[Host]

Hello, and welcome to a bonus episode of down these Mean Streets and another installment in our super summer series. Today we continue the thrilling story of Superman versus Kryptonite with the next five chapters of the adventure as we join the man of Steel. Today. He's escaped from the clutches of Big George Latimer, but exposure to kryptonite has robbed Superman of his memory. He'll soon end up with a new identity and, thanks to his superpowers, a new job. I'll be back on Sunday with another regular podcast episode. But for now, here are the next five installments of Superman vs Kryptonite as they originally aired on Mutual between June 4 and June 10, 1947.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Faster than a speeding bullet.

[Narrator]

More powerful than a locomotive.

[Commercial Announcer]

Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Look. Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane.

[Narrator]

It's Superman.

[Commercial Announcer]

Kellogg's Pep P E P Pep Kellogg's

[Narrator]

Pep the Sunshine CE presents the adventures of Superman. Today, as Superman's enemies leave no stone unturned to recapture their escaped prisoner, the man of Steel aimlessly roams the countryside, his mind a complete blank.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator]

Pat. And now, the Adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Holding Superman a prisoner by means of a jagged piece of kryptonite a strange metallic substance which robs him of all his strength. Big George Latimer, a dishonest politician called him Dr. Marsh, a former Nazi brain specialist. Marsh turned a small portion of the kryptonite into a liquid and said that the solution, given to Superman for 24 hours would make him a mental and physical wreck. Following the first two doses, Superman lost his memory, not even knowing who he was. Meanwhile, Batman, Robin and private detective Candy Myers picked up a clue to the farm where Superman was being held and drove to it in a violent thunderstorm. But before they arrived, something startling happened. We learn what it was now as we join Gus Latimer's henchman in the farmhouse with Dr. Marsh. Gus has just dashed in from the barn. He is drenched with rain and his eyes are wide with fear. For a moment, he stands panting, unable to speak.

[Gus Latimer]

Listen.

[Commercial Announcer]

What are you doing here?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Gus?

[Gus Latimer]

The.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

The.

[Gus Latimer]

The tree.

[Narrator]

Superman got loose.

[Inspector Henderson]

He what?

[Narrator]

He got loose.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

He got his strength back.

[Dr. Marsh]

That is impossible. The piece of kryptonite is about two feet from him. He cannot move, even lift a finger.

[Gus Latimer]

That's what you think.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The storm knocked the tree down onto

[Narrator]

the roof, shook the whole barn.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The kryptonite rolled across the haymow. Next thing I knew, Superman was standing up. He started to walk toward me.

[Gus Latimer]

Boy, did I. Get out of there.

[Dr. Marsh]

You fool, Dunko. Why did you not pick up the kryptonite and bring it close to him again?

[Gus Latimer]

I wasn't taking any chances. That guy is Superman. He does not know who he is.

[Dr. Marsh]

He remembers nothing.

[Gus Latimer]

He might remember. We better get out of here.

[Commercial Announcer]

Ridiculous.

[Dr. Marsh]

Where is he now?

[Constable Toomey]

I don't know.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I left him in the barn.

[Gus Latimer]

Creepers, if he follows me in here.

[Dr. Marsh]

Take that lantern and come with me to the barn. Hurry.

[Gus Latimer]

Up. Here in the halo, doc.

[Dr. Marsh]

Where can he be?

[Narrator]

I don't know.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

He wasn't on the ground floor neither.

[Gus Latimer]

He must have walked out of this barn into the rain.

[Dr. Marsh]

Must fight him here. Here's the kryptonite. The lead box pointer is over there by the wall. Get it, Gus. Quickly.

[Gus Latimer]

Okay. Well, how are we gonna find him? It's dark outside and raining packs and thoughts.

[Dr. Marsh]

It's Only a few minutes since he left. He cannot be very far away. Give me the lead box.

[Gus Latimer]

Hey, doc. But.

[Dr. Marsh]

Now come. Hurry. This ladder over here.

[Gus Latimer]

Listen, how are we going to find him?

[Commercial Announcer]

That guy can fly, you know.

[Dr. Marsh]

He has forgotten he can fly. Have I not told you? He has forgotten everything. Even who he is. He has amnesia. But it is possible to recover from amnesia. Therefore, we must find him and bring him back here to continue my treatment

[Commercial Announcer]

for an additional 20 hours until the

[Dr. Marsh]

sinking portion of his body brain will cease permanently to function.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Watch it.

[Gus Latimer]

One more step.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yes, there.

[Dr. Marsh]

Come now, G. We must find him quickly.

[Gus Latimer]

If we do not, I know it'll mean our next. Hold it, Doc. Don't go out there.

[Dr. Marsh]

Why you guard the lantern?

[Gus Latimer]

Car just pulled up to the house.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Sees a car.

[Dr. Marsh]

Yeah, I see.

[Gus Latimer]

Get back in here.

[Commercial Announcer]

What is it?

[Gus Latimer]

It. It's Batman and Robin.

[Dr. Marsh]

Batman and Robbie?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Are you sure?

[Gus Latimer]

Yeah, I can see their costumes. How they ever trace us here, I do not know.

[Dr. Marsh]

Here, take the kryptonite and hide somewhere until I can get rid of them.

[Gus Latimer]

Until you get rid of them? Listen, those two could lick their weight in wildcats.

[Dr. Marsh]

I have no intention of fighting with them. I am a man of brains. Do as I say. Hide until I get rid of them. Then we must find Super.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

As Dr. Marsh walks through the rain to meet Batman and Robin, editor Perry White and Police Inspector Henderson have just arrived at Big George Latimer's palatial estate in Metropolis Heights. A butler ushers them into the library where the burly politician smoking his inevitable cigar greets them.

[Big George Latimer]

Good evening, Mr. White. Inspector Henderson, what can I do for you?

[Inspector Henderson]

Well, you see, Mr. Lighterman with Park Kent.

[Big George Latimer]

I beg your pardon, Mr. White.

[Inspector Henderson]

I said, what have you done with Park Kent?

[Narrator]

Locke?

[Big George Latimer]

Ken.

[Inspector Henderson]

Yes, my reporter. You were holding him in an old mill out near Remsen, but he's gone now.

[Commercial Announcer]

Now, wait, please, mister.

[Inspector Henderson]

Wait for what? Henderson? This man abducted camp. He's holding my prisoner someplace and he's going to tell me where.

[Commercial Announcer]

Calm down, Mr. White. Let go of my arm and I said, calm down.

[Big George Latimer]

You see, Mr. Latimer, I'm starting to see. Inspector, the other night you barged in here with Batman and Robin and accused me of doing something to Superman. Who's Superman? Mind you, you insisted on searching my house. Well, and now you accuse me of abducting Clark Kent. Just what in thunder is going on around here?

[Commercial Announcer]

I'm not accusing you, Mr.

[Narrator]

Ladder.

[Announcer]

Well, I am.

[Inspector Henderson]

Batman said he saw you at the old mill and you had Kent with you.

[Big George Latimer]

Batman said that yes.

[Inspector Henderson]

He said you grabbed Kent because he helped send you to jail last year. And because he knew you had the kryptonite. He knew all about your plot against Superman.

[Big George Latimer]

Bodyguard stuff and nonsense.

[Inspector Henderson]

Now, you listen to me.

[Dr. Marsh]

Louder.

[Big George Latimer]

Just a minute, gentlemen. I won't listen to another word unless you're prepared to make a formal charge against me, Inspector Henderson. Are you?

[Gus Latimer]

Why, why, no.

[Big George Latimer]

Then get out of my house, please. And take this madman with you.

[Dr. Marsh]

Madman?

[Big George Latimer]

Now, you look here, Latimer, and get this. Inspector. I warned you the other night that if you bothered me again, I'd speak to the mayor and the commissioner. In case you've forgotten, I have some influence in this city.

[Commercial Announcer]

Look, I'm sorry, Mr. Latimer, I'm not.

[Inspector Henderson]

Let him bluff you, Henderson. He knows where Kent is and probably where Superman is, too.

[Commercial Announcer]

Come along, Mr. White.

[Gus Latimer]

No, no, no.

[Inspector Henderson]

Nothing doing. He's going to. I'm going to stay here until he tells me.

[Commercial Announcer]

Please, Mr. White. Into Kent and let go of my arm, Anderson. Please, Mr. White.

[Al McGuire]

Hand off my arm.

[Commercial Announcer]

Good night, Mr. Adam.

[Unknown minor character]

Good night.

[Big George Latimer]

Good night, mate. Get the car out of the garage. I'm going back to the farm.

[Dr. Marsh]

Do you think it's wise?

[Big George Latimer]

I've got to. Things are getting too hot. I'm going back to the farm and see that Dr. Marsh rushes the job on Superman. Hurry and get the car, Blake. I'm leaving at once. You say Superman got away, Marsh, and you haven't been able to find him?

[Dr. Marsh]

Mr. Latimer, after Batman and Robin left, Gus and I, we looked everywhere. In the wards, in the fields, everywhere.

[Big George Latimer]

You idiots. You blundering fools.

[Narrator]

It was enough for poison.

[Dr. Marsh]

Shut up, Gus.

[Big George Latimer]

I'll attend to you later.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Marsh.

[Dr. Marsh]

Yeah, Mr. Letterman.

[Big George Latimer]

What are the chances of Superman recovering from his amnesia?

[Commercial Announcer]

No one can say.

[Dr. Marsh]

Time and care may restore his memory or a sudden shock might do it. On the other hand, he may never recover.

[Big George Latimer]

If he ever recovers his memory. My name is Mudd.

[Gus Latimer]

Mine too.

[Big George Latimer]

He's got to be found and brought back here. And you've got to continue your treatments and tell his mind and strength are gone forever. Of course.

[Dr. Marsh]

But how can we find him? Who knows where he's gone?

[Narrator]

Yeah, the cops might find him before we do.

[Gus Latimer]

Or Batman and Robin.

[Big George Latimer]

They'll be looking for Superman. Not for a man in ragged overalls who's suffering from amnesia. In that way, we've got the jump on them and we've got to make the most of it. I'll put some private detectives on the trail, men I can trust. They'll Find Superman. They've got to.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Stepping to the telephone, Big George Latimer sets a relentless search underway for Superman.

[Narrator]

Where is the man of Steel? We'll be back in a moment to find out, so stand by.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

All you have to do is to

[Commercial Announcer]

make sure that you're stocked up with plenty of Kellogg's Pep. And look inside the package for your prize. That's right. You don't have to send in any money. Not even a box.

[Constable Toomey]

Stop.

[Commercial Announcer]

And you can't buy these comic buttons anywhere. They're a prize for you from that Sunshine cereal, Kellogg's Pat. And is Pep a super dish for breakfast? Golden toasted whole wheat flakes, crisp and fresh as can be. Full to the brim with that catchy Sunshine flavor. Remember, for prize eating and exciting prizes get Pep the Sunshine Cereal, Kellogg's pack.

[Narrator]

Now back to the Adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Rain is still falling from leaden skies as a heavy truck rolls through the night On a glistening black highway. Beside the driver sits Superman. Clad in ragged overall. His forehead is furrowed in deep thought as he tries vainly to remember who he is and what has happened to him.

[Gus Latimer]

Where you going, Bud?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

I don't. Why did you call me?

[Gus Latimer]

I didn't call you anything. I just said, where you going, bud?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

You called me Bud. Somebody else back down the road called me Bud too. Maybe that's.

[Gus Latimer]

Maybe that's your. What?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Oh, nothing, Nothing.

[Gus Latimer]

But. But, hey, you're a funny guy. Hiking along a country road at night. And in a rain at that. You don't look like a tramp. You don't talk like one either.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

I don't?

[Gus Latimer]

No. Say, where are you headed for?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

I don't know.

[Gus Latimer]

You don't know?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

No. You see, I. I.

[Gus Latimer]

Look, Bud, I'm taking the turn up ahead in the Central City. That's as far as I go.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Oh.

[Gus Latimer]

Now, unless you want to go to Central City you'd better get off at the fork and hitch another ride.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Central City. Don't recall ever hearing of it.

[Gus Latimer]

But I guess you don't want to go there. Well, here's where I turn.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Turn?

[Gus Latimer]

Oh.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Oh, yes. Get out here. Thanks for the ride.

[Gus Latimer]

You're welcome. And take it easy, bud.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Yes, I will. Thanks again.

[Commercial Announcer]

Good night, Sola.

[Gus Latimer]

Sure. I'm glad to be rid of him.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That guy's off his trolley. Shaking his head sympathetically, the truck driver

[Narrator]

shifts gears and roars off into the

[Narrator/Storyteller]

night, leaving his strange passenger standing in the middle of the road, bareheaded in the rain, looking about him blankly.

[Narrator]

What will happen to the man of

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Steel while he gropes vainly for his

[Narrator]

name and his past?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Will Big George Latimer and his henchmen, who alone know how he is dressed and that he has lost his memory, find him and complete their fiendish work?

[Narrator]

Strange and amazing adventures are in store for Superman and for you fellows and girls. So keep listening. Tune in tomorrow, same time, same station.

[Commercial Announcer]

And remember, for breakfast, it's Kellogg's Pap.

[Narrator]

For excitement. The Adventures of Superman.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

Faster than a speeding bullet.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

More powerful than a locomotive.

[Commercial Announcer]

Able to leap tall buildings at a single boundary.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Look up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman.

[Commercial Announcer]

Kellogg's Pep.

[Narrator]

Pep.

[Inspector Henderson]

Pep.

[Commercial Announcer]

Kellogg's Pep.

[Narrator]

The Sunshine cereal presents the adventures of. Today. While Superman's friends and enemies are engaged

[Narrator/Storyteller]

in a desperate search for him, the

[Narrator]

man of Steel quietly sits in jail, a victim of total amnesia.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Commercial Stop/Interjection]

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[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator]

And now, the Adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

As you remember, a dishonest politician named Big George Latimer and a former Nazi brain specialist named Dr. Marshall tried to cripple Superman's mind by feeding him liquid kryptonite, a strange green, glowing, metallic substance from the exploded planet on which Superman was born and which, in the atmosphere of Earth, robs him of all his great strength and power. After the first two treatments, Superman lost his memory but managed to escape during a violent thunderstorm. And when last seen, he was riding in a truck, clad in ragged overalls, not knowing who he was or where he was going. Unaware that Superman and Clark Kent are one and the same person. Our friends on the Daily Planet have been searching frantically for Kent. And as we continue now, editor Perry White is speaking on the phone to Police Inspector Henderson as Lois Lane, girl reporter, enters his office.

[Big George Latimer]

Listen.

[Inspector Henderson]

Now, look here, Henderson. You've got to arrest Latimer. What do you mean? You can't arrest him. He knows where Kent is and I say so. And Batman says so. The trouble with you is you're afraid of Latimer. Now, just a minute. You listen to me for a change. Henderson.

[Commercial Announcer]

Henderson.

[Inspector Henderson]

Oh, confound it, he's hung up.

[Unknown minor character]

Well, no wonder, the way you talk to him. You shouldn't tell him that he's afraid of Latimer.

[Inspector Henderson]

Well, if he isn't, why doesn't he arrest him?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Answer that.

[Unknown minor character]

Because there's no real evidence that Latimer abducted Clark. Batman Says he did, that man said he thinks so. And that isn't proof.

[Narrator]

Oh, no?

[Inspector Henderson]

Well, if Latimer wasn't holding Kent, maybe Superman too. In that old mill. Why did he shoot down Batman's plane when he was flying over?

[Unknown minor character]

Look, chief, I'm not trying to say that Latimer didn't abduct caught.

[Inspector Henderson]

Of course you are, you.

[Unknown minor character]

Why, Henderson can't arrest him. He hasn't got anything on him. Latimer is too clever.

[Inspector Henderson]

Now, now, don't you worry. We'll find Kent or Batman and Robin will or Candy Myers or the police.

[Unknown minor character]

I haven't been able to find him yet, and it's almost a week since.

[Inspector Henderson]

I know, I know, I know. But we'll find him, I tell you. Now, come on, Lois. Fix your face and put your hat on.

[Narrator]

Where are you going?

[Dr. Marsh]

Out. Where?

[Inspector Henderson]

Well, first to see the mayor and then to the police commissioner and then, if necessary, to see the governor.

[Unknown minor character]

The governor?

[Inspector Henderson]

Latimer may be a big shot in state politics but I've got some influence around here myself. I'll find Kenneth with the last thing I ever do.

[Big George Latimer]

Come on.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Determined to get action, Perry White starts for the mayor's office to set all possible machinery in motion in the search for the missing Clark Kent. Meanwhile, Big George Latimer is speeding his own machinery in the hunt for the man he knows only as Superman. In the locked library of his palatial estate in Metropolis Heights the burly politician chews savagely on his cigar as he listens to the report of Al McGuire head of the McGuire Confidential Detective Service.

[Announcer]

Now, here's the dope, Mr. Latimer. When this fellow left the farm, he. Oh, by the way, you didn't tell me his name.

[Big George Latimer]

I know I didn't, Maguire, And I don't intend to.

[Announcer]

And I think you ought to.

[Big George Latimer]

I don't think so. He doesn't know his name because he's lost his memory. You don't have to know it either.

[Announcer]

Well, that's the way it has to be.

[Big George Latimer]

That's the way. You said you picked up a trail after he got away from the farm?

[Announcer]

That's right. He was walking along Highway 22 in the rain when a truck driver picked him up and drove him to the fork outside of Central City and let him off.

[Big George Latimer]

You're sure it was our man?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Positive.

[Announcer]

The time checks and the driver says this fellow was tall, well built, wearing ragged overalls. Says he spoke like an educated man too, only kind of crazy. He didn't know where he was going and he kept asking the driver, if he was sure he never saw him before.

[Big George Latimer]

He's our man, all right. Go on, Maguire.

[Announcer]

Well, another truck, a milk truck, picked him up at the fork. The milk truck driver tells about the same story the other one did. Our man didn't know where he was going, where he came from. And he kept asking the driver if he'd ever seen him before.

[Big George Latimer]

He was trying to find out who he was. Where did the truck take him?

[Announcer]

To Bensonville. A lawyer picked him up in his car there and drove him to Ferndale?

[Big George Latimer]

Yes. Then what?

[Announcer]

Well, we had a hard time picking up his trail from there. But I got good detectives working for me, Mr. Latimer. I hire only the best.

[Big George Latimer]

Yes, I know you've got good men and that you can be depended on to keep your mouth shut. I wouldn't have given you this job. Stop patting yourself on the back and get on with your report.

[Narrator]

Okay.

[Commercial Stop/Interjection]

Okay.

[Gus Latimer]

And out.

[Announcer]

Now, let's see. Your man hitched a ride on a truck doing long distance hauls a few miles out of Ferndale at west. We checked all the trucks and cars that went through Ferndale last night and then contacted all the drivers. I had a man fly all the way to Willow Falls and talk to the driver we wanted.

[Big George Latimer]

You're getting paid for it. What did this fellow tell you?

[Announcer]

Well, he said he took our man as far as the state line, then he lost him.

[Commercial Announcer]

Lost him?

[Big George Latimer]

You mean you haven't been able to pick up his trail again?

[Announcer]

No, sir. He just disappeared at the state line.

[Big George Latimer]

That's impossible. You've got to find him.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

This means everything to me, Maguire.

[Announcer]

Well, we're doing all we can, but

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I've got to find him.

[Big George Latimer]

I tell you, put more men on the case.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I don't care how much money it costs.

[Big George Latimer]

Find that man and bring him to me.

[Al McGuire]

Yes, sir.

[Announcer]

I'm doing everything possible.

[Big George Latimer]

You've got to find him quickly. Other people are looking for him. I can't take the chance of it's falling into the hands of the police. If he's brought to Metropolis and identified, I'm sunk.

[Announcer]

Okay, look, I got a little idea it might work. It's going to cost some money, though. Maybe $5,000 will be okay.

[Gus Latimer]

Of course.

[Big George Latimer]

And I tell you, I don't care how much money it costs.

[Announcer]

Okay, I'll get right on it then. I'll contact all the local cops around where our man disappeared.

[Gus Latimer]

Cops?

[Big George Latimer]

Are you crazy, Maguire? I told you, I don't want the

[Announcer]

cops to find them. But they might. Whether you want them to or Not. And if they deliver them to us, that'll be okay.

[Big George Latimer]

They won't. They'll contact all the missing persons bureaus.

[Announcer]

Not after they hear my story, they won't. Now, just leave this to me, Mr. Latimer. I know what I'm doing.

[Big George Latimer]

I hope you do.

[Announcer]

I do. And I think this stunt will get our man. I gotta work fast, though, so I'll be going. Report to you later, Mr. Latimer.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

As Big George Latimer's private detective prepares a trap which he believes will net the missing Superman, the Man of Steel stands on the quiet main street of a small village. Clad in the ragged overalls Latimer and Dr. Marsh put on him, he stares about him blankly, not knowing who he is or where he came from. Constable to me, elderly, wiry, coatless, the large star in his vest gleaming in the noonday sun, approaches him.

[Constable Toomey]

Howdy, mister.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

What?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Oh, hello.

[Constable Toomey]

Visiting friends in this village maybe.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Why, no, I. I don't think so.

[Constable Toomey]

What you doing here then?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

I. I don't know.

[Constable Toomey]

You don't, huh? What's your name?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

My name?

[Constable Toomey]

Yeah, your name. You got one, ain't you?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Sure, I must have. Those men in. In the trucks, they. They called me Bud. That's it. Bud.

[Constable Toomey]

Bud what?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Why?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Got any means of occupation?

[Commercial Announcer]

Occupation?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

You mean a job?

[Constable Toomey]

Got a job?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Why, I don't know, Constable. I can't seem to remember.

[Constable Toomey]

I thought not. You're a vagrant. I'm going to lock you up. Come on.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Oh, wait a minute. You can't arrest me. I didn't do it.

[Constable Toomey]

That's just it. You're a vagrant. You gonna come along peaceable like, or do I have to Put the handcuffs on me.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

You can't arrest me. Constable, please. I've got to find out who I am.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

That'd be all out of you.

[Constable Toomey]

Come along.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

But this isn't gonna do a thing.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Protesting vainly Superman to the village jail by the constable.

[Narrator]

What will happen now? Something startling happens, as we'll discover in just a moment. So stand by.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator]

And now back to the adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

In his small police station, Constable Toomey is telling his deputy, Ed north about the vagrant he has just locked in the station's single cell. What do you think about that feller

[Constable Toomey]

I just locked up, Ed? He don't seem like no vagrant.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

He looks like one of those turnover hours. He said he didn't have a job, didn't he?

[Constable Toomey]

Yeah, he talks like educated young fella. Claims he can't remember nothing where he comes from, why he was hitchhiking, nothing, that's all. Yeah, I've heard about cases like that. Fellas losing their memories am. Amnesia, I think they calls it. That's it.

[Gus Latimer]

Tell you what, Ed.

[Constable Toomey]

I'm going to call the county sheriff's office. Have a description of this fella go to the missing persons bureaus all over the country. Wait till I see who this is. Village jail constable told me this is

[Al McGuire]

Frank McGuire of the McGuire Confidential Detective Agency in Metropolis, Constable.

[Constable Toomey]

A detective agency in Metropolis, you say?

[Al McGuire]

That's right. You may be able to help me, Constable. At the same time, make yourself $5,000.

[Constable Toomey]

5,000? What are you talking about?

[Al McGuire]

Well, you see, I'm looking for a young man who disappeared from his home in Metropolis last night. He was suffering from amnesia. That means loss of memory.

[Constable Toomey]

Oh, I know what that means. Tell me more about this fellow. What's he look like?

[Al McGuire]

He's tall, dark, well built.

[Commercial Announcer]

What is it than a shall be?

[Al McGuire]

When he disappeared, he was wearing a suit of ragged overalls.

[Constable Toomey]

Ragged overalls, eh?

[Al McGuire]

Yeah, they belong to his gardener. You see, Constable, this young man Belongs to a rich and very fine family. They're anxious to keep this out of the papers.

[Constable Toomey]

Oh, yeah, sure.

[Al McGuire]

They feel that the publicity might embarrass the young man when he recovers. You understand?

[Constable Toomey]

Yeah, I.

[Al McGuire]

That's why I've been authorized to offer $5,000 for his apprehension with the understanding that it will be given no publicity. Now, he was last seen about 40 miles east of your town.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Yeah.

[Al McGuire]

So in case you happen to run across him, let me know, and you'll be. $5,000, Richard. Goodbye.

[Constable Toomey]

Now, wait a minute, mister. I've got this fella.

[Al McGuire]

What? You've got him?

[Constable Toomey]

Yeah, I got him in my jail this minute, you see, I.

[Al McGuire]

Does anybody else know you got him?

[Constable Toomey]

No, no, no, not yet.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I was just going.

[Al McGuire]

You wait right there, constable. I'll be there in two hours with the young man's father and with $5,000 in cash for you, okay?

[Constable Toomey]

Oh, I'll say it's okay. Hurry right along, mister. That young fella will be right here waiting for you.

[Perry White]

Whoa.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

$5,000. Ed, I am rich.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Chargling gleefully, Constable Toomey visualizes the $5,000 soon to be placed in his hands

[Narrator]

unaware that the prisoner he has promised to deliver is Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Apparently, Private Detective Maguire's clever trick has worked and Superman is about to be returned to Big George Latimer and the Nazi brain specialist, Dr. Marsh.

[Narrator]

What will happen? A great deal happens in tomorrow's thrilling and surprising episode, fellows and girls, so be sure to be with us. Tune in same time, same station.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator]

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[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

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[Narrator]

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[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

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[Narrator]

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[Narrator]

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[Narrator]

and now, the Adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

In an attempt to damage Superman's brain and make him helpless, a dishonest politician named George Latimer and a former Nazi concentration camp doctor fed the man of steel liquid kryptonite, a strange element which has the power to rob him of all his strength. After two treatments, Superman lost his memory, but managed to escape from Latimer's hideout before the treatments could be continued. Wearing ragged overalls, not knowing who he was or where he was going, Superman wandered until he found himself in a small village where he was arrested and locked up as a vagrant. Private detectives employed by Latimer located him there. And as we Continue Now, Al McGuire, head of the detective agency, and Big George Latimer have arrived at the little village police station and are talking with Constable Toomey. Latimer is posing as Superman's father Listen, please, Constable.

[Big George Latimer]

Where is my son?

[Constable Toomey]

Well, I got him locked in a cell, Mr. Latham.

[Big George Latimer]

George Latham. Will you take me to him, please? I'm terribly anxious to see him.

[Constable Toomey]

Sure, I'll bet you are. Come this way, Mr. Latham.

[Big George Latimer]

Thank you. Come along, McGuire.

[Announcer]

It's in the bag.

[Big George Latimer]

Mr. Latimer, this fellow is a man.

[Commercial Announcer]

I'm sure he is.

[Constable Toomey]

It's a good thing Mr. McGuire called when he did, Mr. Latham. Cause I was just going to phone the county sheriff and have your son's description wired to all the missing persons bureaus. That would have got it in all the papers. Mr. McGuire says you want to keep this quiet, like.

[Big George Latimer]

Yes, I do, Constable. You see, my son is very sensitive. And the publicity about his temporary loss of memory would embarrass him afterwards. You know how it is.

[Constable Toomey]

Sure I know.

[Big George Latimer]

Poor fella.

[Constable Toomey]

Well, here we are. I'll just open the cell door.

[Commercial Announcer]

Where is he?

[Constable Toomey]

Why, Jerusalem, he ain't here.

[Big George Latimer]

Now, look here, Constable, if you're trying to put something open, why, it's helped me.

[Constable Toomey]

I locked him in here myself. Ain't no way he could have got out.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Holy mackerel.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Look at this.

[Constable Toomey]

Now what?

[Big George Latimer]

What is it, Maguire?

[Announcer]

These three end bars.

[Constable Toomey]

Look at him.

[Big George Latimer]

What up?

[Constable Toomey]

Suffering catfish. Why, they're twisted like pretzels and it's all gone out.

[Announcer]

He bent the bars and ain't.

[Narrator]

No, wait.

[Announcer]

These bars are iron. They're at least three inches thick.

[Constable Toomey]

Ain't no living man could twist them bars that away. Listen, it was that fella Superman.

[Announcer]

Superman?

[Big George Latimer]

Nonsense. This fellow, my son, is very strong, exceedingly strong.

[Announcer]

You're not kidding, Mr. Latham. He must be the strongest man in the world.

[Constable Toomey]

I can't believe it. Look at them bars. I ain't seen nothing to beat this in all my born days.

[Big George Latimer]

Never mind, Constable. We're wasting time. We've got to find my son. Maguire.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Just a minute.

[Inspector Henderson]

What's this?

[Big George Latimer]

What?

[Announcer]

Something written on the floor. Looks like it was scrawled with a nail. Oh, listen to this. Sorry I had to break out, but I didn't do anything wrong. And I have to find out who I am.

[Constable Toomey]

A young fellow must have writ that.

[Gus Latimer]

Yes.

[Big George Latimer]

Get busy and look for him, Maguire. He can't be far away.

[Announcer]

Right, I'm away.

[Big George Latimer]

You're too, Constable. I'll pay you $10,000 if you find him and bring him to me.

[Constable Toomey]

$10,000?

[Big George Latimer]

That's right. I'll get busy. I must find him. I must.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

As big George Latimer urges on the hunt with Superman, a friendly motorist has driven the man of Steel to the town of Gainesville, 50 miles north. Clad in his ragged overalls, a blank expression in his eyes, Superman wanders the streets hoping someone will recognize him. Finally, as he saunters beside a high board fence, he sees a police officer approaching. Fearing he will be arrested again, he turns swiftly to the high fence, vaults over it and finds himself at the edge of a baseball field on which some 20 men in uniform are practicing. Before a small, empty wooden grandstand, two men, their backs turned to Superman, stand watching the practice. One stocky, bowlegged and gray haired, wearing a uniform, is talking.

[Commercial Announcer]

Look at them guys.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

You think that was at a tea party? No wonder we can't win any ball games. Come on, you guys, show some pep right there.

[Narrator]

The Colts need more than pepper, Shorty.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You fellas could use a good pitcher or two.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

You reporters know everything, don't you? Harris, Maybe you can tell me where to find a good pitcher. Wish you could, Shorty.

[Announcer]

I'm getting tired of beginning every single story where the Colts lost again last night.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I'll rub it in, wise guy.

[Announcer]

Sorry, didn't mean to.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

This Bush Leap club is getting me down. Let me start winning some board games and get the fans coming to the park again. I'll be out on my year.

[Announcer]

Hope not.

[Constable Toomey]

Hey, look out.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Shorty shouting a warning, the reported ducks

[Narrator]

as a ball driven by a batter screams on the line.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Straight at the unseen Shorty's head. Quick as a fly, Superman leaps forward and catches the ball in his bare

[Narrator]

hand an inch in front of the

[Narrator/Storyteller]

startled little manager's face.

[Commercial Announcer]

Holy smokes.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Thanks, partner.

[Big George Latimer]

You saved me a busted nose.

[Narrator]

He sure did.

[Commercial Announcer]

That was some catch.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Oh, I wouldn't say that.

[Narrator]

Well, I would.

[Big George Latimer]

That ball was going a mile a minute.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Where'd you come from?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Wish I knew where I came from.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Huh?

[Announcer]

What'd you say?

[Dr. Marsh]

Nothing.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Hey.

[Narrator]

Yo.

[Perry White]

Yo.

[Narrator]

Nice.

[Commercial Announcer]

Have to fall.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Oh, God. Excuse me. I've got the ball still.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Jeeper shy.

[Commercial Announcer]

Did you see that great snake.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I never saw a ball throwing so hard in my life. What are you trying to do, kill me? Look, son, where'd you learn to throw

[Commercial Announcer]

a ball like that?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

I don't know. Did I do something wrong?

[Constable Toomey]

Wrong?

[Commercial Announcer]

Are you kidding?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I played a lot of ball in my day. I was even up in the big leagues for a spell. And I saw all the stars. Ruth Johnson, the magic. All of them would. I never seen anybody throw a ball as hard as you do.

[Constable Toomey]

That goes for me too.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Really?

[Inspector Henderson]

Look, mister, do you ever play professional baseball?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Who, me? Why, I don't know. You see, I'll hold everything.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I got a hunch. Come on with me, Bud. Oh, wait, what's your name?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Well, everyone seems to call me Bud.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Okay.

[Big George Latimer]

Come on, Bud.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Where to?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Out of that pitching box. I'm gonna let you throw a few

[Big George Latimer]

of those fireball to my players if

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

my Hutch is right. No, I don't even dare think about it.

[Big George Latimer]

Come on.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Holy smokes. I tell you, that guy's got a

[Commercial Announcer]

cannon up his sleeve.

[Announcer]

I never saw a ball pitch that fair, Shorty.

[Commercial Announcer]

Why, you can't even see it travel. It's just a blur.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I can't believe my eyes. He's twice as fast as Bobby fellow and he's got perfect control.

[Narrator]

Want me to pitch some more, Mr. Taylor?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Now? One more, Bud, just to make sure I'm not dreaming.

[Commercial Announcer]

Okay, I'm enjoying this.

[Dr. Marsh]

Here goes.

[Constable Toomey]

Wow.

[Commercial Announcer]

Did you see Hafey swing of that before? He was halfway around.

[Announcer]

The ball was in the catcher's mate.

[Big George Latimer]

Yeah.

[Commercial Announcer]

That enough, Mr. Taylor?

[Big George Latimer]

I'll say it's enough.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

That's all again tonight, boys. Go get your showers. Look, but put me out of my misery quick. How'd you like a job pitching for the Colts?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Why, I don't know.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I'll pay a hundred a week, and unless I'm crazy, I'll sell you to the big lids before the season is over for a hundred grand. And I'll split the hundred grand with you. What do you say?

[Constable Toomey]

That's a very fair offer, Bud.

[Big George Latimer]

Well, is it a deal?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Yes. Yes, it's a deal.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Oh, boy, this is terrific. Just terrific.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Shaking the outstretched hand of the delighted Shorty Taylor, Superman, having no idea of his real name or his past, accepts a job as pitcher on the minor league Gainesville Colts.

[Narrator]

What will this lead to? We'll return in a moment to find out. So stand by.

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[Narrator]

And now back to the adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Suffering from loss of memory, Superman accidentally became a pitcher for a small town minor league baseball team. And a week later in Metropolis, cub reporter Jimmy Olsen rushes excitedly into the office of Editor Perry White.

[Perry White]

Mr. White. Mr. White. It's him.

[Constable Toomey]

What?

[Inspector Henderson]

Oh, it's you, Jim. What's the idea of rushing into my office like a wild man?

[Perry White]

It's him, I tell you it's him. Leaping lizard.

[Inspector Henderson]

Stop shouting who's who?

[Perry White]

This bush league ball player.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Ball player?

[Perry White]

Yeah, Bud Smith. The one who pitched three no hit, no run games last week and hit all those home runs.

[Inspector Henderson]

Will you pull yourself together and make sense? Now look at you. So excited you can't talk. I'm ashamed of you, Jim. But Mr. Clark Kent, missing for almost two weeks, we might never see him again.

[Perry White]

But look.

[Inspector Henderson]

And you go crazy about some bush league ball player.

[Perry White]

But, but it's Mr. Kent.

[Inspector Henderson]

Who's Mr. Kent?

[Perry White]

This, this ball player, Bud Smith. He's Mr. Kent.

[Inspector Henderson]

Are you out of your mind? No, no, wait, wait.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Take it easy.

[Inspector Henderson]

Sit down.

[Perry White]

Blood. Smith is Mr. Ken, I tell you. Here, see for yourself. Our local correspondent in Gainesville just sent in this picture. It's from the Gainesville Bugle. Look at it.

[Big George Latimer]

What?

[Inspector Henderson]

Why, it does look like Kent.

[Perry White]

It is Mr. Kent. Jeepers, Mr. White.

[Inspector Henderson]

No, no, it can't be.

[Perry White]

What is, I tell you? Well, he hasn't got his glasses on,

[Inspector Henderson]

but you can see Bud Smith, sensational new pitcher for the Colts at a world's record last night when he hurled his third consecutive no hit, no run game. Beside this amazing feat, Smith hit three home runs and three times at bat. No, no, this is ridiculous. Jim Kent's not a ball player.

[Perry White]

It's him, I tell you. I mean he.

[Inspector Henderson]

Nonsense. I'll admit there's a startling resemblance between this fellow Budsmith and Kent he's Mr. Kent.

[Perry White]

I know he is. I can't understand it, but the fellow in that picture is Mr. Kent. I'm going right out to games. No. You can stay here if you want, but I'm going out to games.

[Narrator]

Now.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Wait.

[Inspector Henderson]

I said I'm going with you.

[Perry White]

You are?

[Al McGuire]

Yes.

[Big George Latimer]

It's ridiculous.

[Inspector Henderson]

It's impossible. The longer I look at this photograph. Jim, where'd I get my hat? We're going to Gainesville and see this budsmith face to face at once.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Grabbing his hat, Perry White leaves the Daily Planet with Jimmy Olsen en route to Gainesville to see the sensational baseball pitcher Bud Smith. Will the sight of his closest friends restore Superman's memory? Apart from his loss of memory, there is one great difference between this Clark Kent and the one Perry White and Jimmy Owen.

[Narrator]

Do you know what that difference is?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And will it fool White and Jimmy? And what a big George Latimer and his relentless detectives.

[Narrator]

Have they picked up the trail of the man of Steel? Don't miss Monday's thrill packed episode, fellows and girls. Tune in same time, same station.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator]

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

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[Narrator]

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[Narrator]

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[Narrator]

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[Narrator]

And now, the adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

As you remember, George Latimer, a crooked politician, enlisted the aid of a former German concentration camp doctor in an effort to destroy Superman by feeding him liquid kryptonite, a strange element from the exploded planet on which he was born and which in the atmosphere of earth, robs him of all his strength and curious powers. Superman escaped before the treatments could be completed, but not before suffering a loss of memory. Dressed in ragged overalls, not knowing who he was or where he belonged, he wandered about until finally, in the little town of Gainesville, he found himself on a baseball field and under the name of Bud Smith, became the star pitcher for the local team. News of his sensational playing reached the metropolis daily Planet where cub reporter Jimmy Neill o' saw his photograph and insisted it was the missing Clark Kent, who, as we know, is really Superman. With their fingers crossed, Jimmy and editor Perry White caught the first plane to Gainesville. And as we join them now, they are sitting tensely in the small wooden grandstand which is filled to capacity. It is almost game time and the crowd is impatiently awaiting the appearance of the teams.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Listen.

[Perry White]

Gosh, Mr. White, why don't the players come up?

[Inspector Henderson]

They'll be out in a minute. Jim. Relax.

[Perry White]

Relax? How can I relax?

[Inspector Henderson]

Oh, here they come.

[Perry White]

Hey, I don't see Mr. Ken. He's scheduled to pitch today.

[Inspector Henderson]

You mean that man, Bud Smith? The one who looks like Ken?

[Perry White]

This Bud Smith is Mr. Ken, I'm sure.

[Inspector Henderson]

Well, I'll admit it's a remarkable resemblance. But wait, Jim. Here comes an announcement.

[Commercial Announcer]

The batteries for today's game for Central

[Al McGuire]

City, Hanson and Barry. For Gainesville, Smith and Olensky.

[Narrator]

Oh, Smith.

[Perry White]

Look, Mr. White, there he is.

[Inspector Henderson]

Where?

[Perry White]

Walking out to the pitching box. See him?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Oh.

[Inspector Henderson]

Oh, yes. Hey, he does look like Kenneth.

[Perry White]

That it is, Mr. Kent.

[Inspector Henderson]

Where are you going, Ken?

[Perry White]

I'm going down in the field.

[Inspector Henderson]

No, no, you're not. Now you sit down. You want to get thrown out of the park? Sit down, I said. In the first place, that fellow couldn't be Kent because, well, Kent's a reporter, not a professional baseball player.

[Perry White]

I know, but just the same.

[Inspector Henderson]

Quiet. The umpire's dusting off the plate. They're going to start the game.

[Perry White]

The way that pitcher moves, everything about him, he's just like Mr. Kim.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Great Caesar.

[Inspector Henderson]

What speed.

[Perry White]

I couldn't even see the ball. Jeepers, I never saw a ball travel so fast.

[Inspector Henderson]

Neither did I, Jim. Nobody can hit that speed.

[Perry White]

I could see a kind of blur that time, but that's all.

[Inspector Henderson]

That's incredible. Why, the ball travels as if it were shot out of a howitzer.

[Perry White]

Here comes the next batter. Watch this. Wow.

[Inspector Henderson]

Did you see that, Jim? By the time the batter swung, the catcher was throwing the ball back to Smith.

[Perry White]

Yeah, he's sensational.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Look at that. Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

[Perry White]

Holy smokes, can this be? Mr. Ken,

[Inspector Henderson]

Bud Smith has struck out 20 men in a row, Jim. He strikes this one out.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

He did it, Jim. He did it.

[Perry White]

You sure did.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. Watch this. Bud Smith has just struck out his 21st straight batter. That means he has set two new world records. One for consecutive strikeouts and the other for most men struck out in a single game.

[Perry White]

Leaping lizards, as you know.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

As you know, Bud Smith set another world's record here the other night when he pitched his third consecutive no hit,

[Narrator]

no run game and hit a home run each.

[Inspector Henderson]

Oh, what a picture.

[Commercial Announcer]

Well, Jam, are you satisfied now?

[Inspector Henderson]

Or do you still think that Bud Smith is Clark Ken?

[Perry White]

I don't know, Mr. White. Maybe it is impossible. But I still say that man is Mr. Kent.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

But, but, oh, no.

[Inspector Henderson]

How could you even think of Ken as the greatest pitcher in the world? He's no athlete. Why, the whole thing's ridiculous.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

But come on, Jim, where are you going?

[Perry White]

The game isn't over yet.

[Inspector Henderson]

It's almost over. I want to be down at the gate when the players leave the field. I want a close look at Bud Smith.

[Perry White]

But why? You just said he couldn't be Mr. King.

[Inspector Henderson]

Never mind what I said. Are you coming along, Olsen?

[Perry White]

Yeah, just a minute. He's just coming to bat. I want to see him hitting.

[Inspector Henderson]

Never mind that. Come on. Follow me to the dressing rooms. Players have to come through this door to go to the dressing room. Jim, you stand right here.

[Perry White]

Okay, Chief. Smith had 26 strikeouts and he would have had 27. All that's possible the last guy hadn't dodged and popped the ball up by accident.

[Inspector Henderson]

Yes, I know.

[Perry White]

Seems crazy, but golly, Chief, do you think this Bud smith could be Mr. Kent?

[Inspector Henderson]

Frankly, Jim, I don't know what to think. Doesn't seem possible. And yet.

[Announcer]

Well, we'll know in a minute.

[Perry White]

Yeah.

[Commercial Announcer]

Gee, Wizard.

[Perry White]

Seems kind of like a dream. Wait. Here come the players.

[Inspector Henderson]

And there's Bud Smith.

[Gus Latimer]

Chief.

[Perry White]

Chief. It is Mr. Kent.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I'd swear it is.

[Narrator]

So help me.

[Inspector Henderson]

I think you're right, Jim.

[Perry White]

I know I am. I just know it. Mr. Kent. Mr. Kent, look who's here.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Their faces beaming. Jimmy Olsen and Fairy White hurry forward to greet Clark Kent, who unknown to them, has lost his memory. Will Kent recognize White and Jimmy and so regain his memory?

[Narrator]

Will return in a moment to find out. So stand by.

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[Narrator]

And now back to the Adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

At the entrance to the players clubhouse of the Gainesville ballpark, editor Perry White and Jimmy Olsen are hurrying forward to greet Clark Kent who under the name of Bud Smith, has just pitched a sensational shutout game.

[Perry White]

Mr. Kent. Mr. Kent, look who's here.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Kent.

[Inspector Henderson]

It is you, Kent. By George, it is you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

For a brief moment, as he sees the beaming faces of his two close friends the clouded, dazed look in Superman's eyes begins to clear away. He starts to smile, almost to remember. Then the cloud closes down on his mind again. He looks at White and Jimmy as if they are total strangers. Hello.

[Announcer]

What's the matter, Kent?

[Inspector Henderson]

Don't you know us?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Why, no, I. I don't think it's me, Mr. Kent.

[Perry White]

Me, Jim Olsen and Mr. White.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Wait, what did you call me?

[Perry White]

Mr. Kent. You mean you aren't.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

No.

[Inspector Henderson]

Look here, Kent.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Afraid you made a mistake. My name isn't Kent, it's Bud Smith. I think.

[Inspector Henderson]

You think?

[Perry White]

You must be Mr. Kent.

[Commercial Announcer]

I know you are Jimmy.

[Perry White]

Gosh, look at me, Mr. Kent. You must know me.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Sorry, son, you've made a mistake.

[Perry White]

No, I haven't.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I'm sure.

[Inspector Henderson]

Listen, it's no use, Jim. I'm afraid this is a case of mistaken identity.

[Perry White]

But I'm sure.

[Inspector Henderson]

Can't you tell by his voice? That isn't Kent's voice.

[Perry White]

Oh, yeah, I didn't think of that.

[Commercial Announcer]

Guess you're right, chief.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Sorry, son, gotta run along now. So long.

[Perry White]

So long.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Goodbye, Smith.

[Inspector Henderson]

Wonderful game you pitched today.

[Gus Latimer]

Thanks.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

See you again sometime.

[Inspector Henderson]

Well, that's that, Jim. Just an amazing resemblance, that's all.

[Perry White]

Yeah, and I thought he. Gosh, now what are we gonna do? Mr. White, I was sure we'd found Mr. Kent at last.

[Inspector Henderson]

Yes, so was I, until I heard his voice.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But.

[Inspector Henderson]

Well, there was something familiar about his voice. Did you notice a. Jim?

[Perry White]

I don't know and I don't care. All I want to do is find Mr. Kent. But now I don't think we're ever going to.

[Inspector Henderson]

Well, we won't find him around here, that's certain. Well, come on, son, let's go back to Metropolis. This trip's turned out to be a wild goose chase.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Turning for once, look after the tall, broad shouldered Bud Smith. Jimmy Olsen, tears in his eyes. Shakes his head and follows Perry White toward the airport. But although White and Jimmy think their trip was a wild goose chase, another man who witnessed the game does not feel his time was wasted. This man, tall, thin, unobtrusive looking, hurries from the ballpark to the telegraph office. And a few moments later, as White and Jimmy are disconsolately boarding their plane for the return trip to Metropolis, an urgent telegram is speeding over the eastbound wires

[Commercial Announcer]

to George Latimer, Potler Road, Metropolis Heights.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Believe I have located our man. Come to Gainesville at once and identify him.

[Gus Latimer]

Signed, Maguire.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Maguire. Big George Lettermer's detective, believes he has found Superman in Gainesville. And in a very short time, Latimer,

[Narrator]

the one man who has the means

[Narrator/Storyteller]

and the desire to cripple Superman's mind and body forever, will be flying to Gainesville. What will happen now as Perry White and Jimmy Olsen return to Metropolis, fooled by Superman's voice, which is different from the voice he uses as Clark Kent?

[Narrator]

Don't miss tomorrow's excitement packed episode, fellows and girls. Tune in same time, same station.

[Commercial Announcer]

And remember, for breakfast, it's Kellogg's Pep for excitement.

[Narrator]

The Adventures of Superman.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

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[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

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[Narrator]

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[Narrator]

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[Perry White]

Stop.

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[Narrator]

And now, the adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Hating and fearing Superman, a dishonest politician named big George Latimer tried to damage his mind and make him forever helpless by forcibly feeding him kryptonite, a strange element which robbed Superman of all his strength and superhuman powers. Although the man of Steel managed to escape before the treatments could be completed, his memory was gone. Wearing ragged overalls, not knowing who he was, he became the star pitcher for a small town baseball team and under the name of Bud Smith, performed so sensationally that news of his exploits reached metropolitan editor Perry White and cub reporter Jimmy Olsen almost identified him. But when Superman failed to recognize them, they decided they had been mistaken. However, Al McGuire, a detective hired by Latimer, was on Superman's track. And as we continue now, Latimer has arrived at the hotel in the small town of Gainesville where he has come in response to an urgent wire from McGuire.

[Big George Latimer]

Listen, I got here as fast as I could, Maguire. Where is he?

[Announcer]

He's not far from this hotel, Mr. Latimer. And I think he's the man you want.

[Big George Latimer]

You think?

[Announcer]

Well, I'm practically certain. But I want you to Identify him. I never saw him before, you know.

[Big George Latimer]

That's right. Well, show him to me. I'll tell you in a second if he's the man.

[Announcer]

Take it easy. We'll have to wait a few minutes till the game's over.

[Big George Latimer]

What game?

[Announcer]

The baseball game he's pitching tonight.

[Commercial Announcer]

He's what?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Oh, I forgot.

[Announcer]

You didn't know. Your man's pitcher for the Gainesville Colts. That's a bush league team in his town.

[Big George Latimer]

Baseball pitcher?

[Gus Latimer]

That's ridiculous.

[Big George Latimer]

This fellow isn't a professional ball player. You've made a mistake, Maguire.

[Announcer]

No, I don't think so, Mr. Latimer. Your man's trail led to this town. He was wearing ragged overalls when he got here, and he answers the description you gave me to a T. You sure?

[Al McGuire]

Positive.

[Announcer]

Look, he uses the name of Bud Smith. That mean anything to you?

[Big George Latimer]

No, nothing at all. A baseball pitcher, brother.

[Announcer]

What? A pitcher out of this world. You know, he pitched four no hit, no run games in a row. Set a world's record.

[Narrator]

You did, eh?

[Announcer]

Yeah, I saw him work yesterday. I never saw such speed in my life. It's where he had a cannon up his sleeve. The batters couldn't touch him.

[Big George Latimer]

I see.

[Announcer]

Terrific hitter, too. He knocks out a home run every time at bat. Yesterday he got four. And did he whale those balls.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Wow.

[Announcer]

I think they're traveling yet.

[Big George Latimer]

You know, McGuire, maybe you haven't made a mistake. I'm beginning to think he is our man.

[Announcer]

I'm pretty sure he is.

[Big George Latimer]

Come on, take me to him, McGuire. I've got to make sure if he is.

[Announcer]

But, Mr. Latimer, like I told you, we got to wait till the game is over.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Why?

[Announcer]

Because there are thousands of people at the ballpark. We can't get near him.

[Big George Latimer]

But we might lose him.

[Announcer]

Don't worry, I. I got a man watching him. He'll phone us as soon as the game is over and he finds out where Smith goes.

[Big George Latimer]

Okay, if you insist. But I tell you, we've got to work fast, McGuire, because if he is

[Commercial Announcer]

our man, he should recover his memory.

[Announcer]

Guess that would be bad for you, huh, Mr. Latimer?

[Big George Latimer]

Yes, worse than you can imagine.

[Announcer]

Hey, look, Mr. Latimer, just who is this guy?

[Big George Latimer]

As I told you before, that's none of your business.

[Announcer]

Maybe just the same, I'd like to know.

[Big George Latimer]

I get it.

[Announcer]

I can't help being curious about a guy who can bust out of a jail by twisting iron bars 3 inches thick like pretzels. Look, Maguire, who can throw a baseball twice as fast? Walter Johnson or Bobby Feller ever threw it.

[Big George Latimer]

Maguire. There's an old saying you might remember.

[Announcer]

What's that?

[Big George Latimer]

Curiosity once killed a cat.

[Announcer]

Now listen, Mr. Latimer.

[Big George Latimer]

The phone. Maybe it's on the end. Answer it.

[Commercial Stop/Interjection]

Okay.

[Announcer]

Hello, Tim. All right? Yeah, John, what's the dope? Oh, it is, huh?

[Commercial Announcer]

What about Smith?

[Announcer]

Uh huh.

[Constable Toomey]

Uh huh.

[Narrator]

Okay.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Swell, John.

[Announcer]

Stick around so long.

[Big George Latimer]

Well, Mr. Came over.

[Announcer]

Yeah?

[Big George Latimer]

Where's Smith?

[Announcer]

He went home to the rooming house where most of the ball players live.

[Big George Latimer]

Do you know where that is?

[Announcer]

Sure, over on West Elm Street. Let's go.

[Big George Latimer]

Just a minute. I want to take this box along with me. All right, let's go.

[Announcer]

Hey, what's in that box?

[Big George Latimer]

That's my business.

[Announcer]

Looks heavy as a lead box.

[Big George Latimer]

It is lead. Come on. But look what? I warned you before, Maguire. Don't get too curious. Now. Let's go see this Matt Smith.

[Announcer]

That's Smith's rooming house over there at the corner, Mr. Latimer.

[Big George Latimer]

Good, let's.

[Announcer]

Now wait. My assistant ought to be around here someplace.

[Constable Toomey]

Oh, here it comes.

[Big George Latimer]

Seems to be in a hurry. Hope nothing's wrong.

[Al McGuire]

I will know in a minute.

[Announcer]

What's up, John?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I was just going to the corner to phone you, Mr. McGuire.

[Announcer]

Why?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But Smith's gone.

[Gus Latimer]

What?

[Big George Latimer]

Gone where?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

He's on his way to Metropolis.

[Big George Latimer]

Metropolis?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah, the Colt sold him yesterday to the Metropolis Titans for $100,000. I just got the dope from the local newspaper reporter. I'm not surprised.

[Big George Latimer]

This is disastrous.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Charlie Taylor, he's the manager and part owner of the Colts. He left with Smith just a few minutes ago.

[Big George Latimer]

For where?

[Inspector Henderson]

I told you, Metropolis.

[Big George Latimer]

Yes, but how? They go in there by plane, by train? How?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I don't know that, sir.

[Big George Latimer]

You don't know?

[Commercial Announcer]

What's the matter with you, John?

[Announcer]

What kind of a detective are you?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Well, I didn't to want wait to find out. As soon as I saw Smith and Shorty leave and heard what happened, I ran out to phone you.

[Big George Latimer]

Great Lucifer. Now, how are we going, Mr. Latimer?

[Announcer]

Look, John, there are a couple of ball players sitting on the rooming house porch. Maybe they know how Smith and Taylor are traveling. I'll beat it up there and ask them. Go ahead, step on it.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay, Mr. Maguire, hold everything. Well, John, they're going by train, midnight limited.

[Big George Latimer]

Midnight? What time is it now?

[Al McGuire]

Let's see.

[Announcer]

8 minutes to 12.

[Big George Latimer]

There's a taxi at the corner. Come on, McGuire, hurry with you.

[Announcer]

Hey, but look, what's a rush? We can have him in a Griff

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Smith Catch the Metropolis. He might be recognized.

[Big George Latimer]

Then I'll be done for. We've got to get him before he gets there. Pens are limited. Come on, McGuire.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Hurry.

[Announcer]

I'm afraid we'll will never make it, Mr. Larimer.

[Big George Latimer]

We've got to make it.

[Dr. Marsh]

Got to.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Come on. But. Go.

[Inspector Henderson]

We're too late.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

No, we're not.

[Big George Latimer]

Keep running.

[Narrator]

The doors are closed.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Come by that swing out of the observation car.

[Dr. Marsh]

Come on.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Racing madly down the platform, Big George Latimer and Al McGuire seize the iron grill of the observation car on the departing limited and pull themselves pantingly aboard.

[Narrator]

We'll return in a moment for the tense climax of today's episode. So stand by.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator]

Now back to the Adventures of Superman.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

In a compartment on the limited en route to Metropolis, Superman, wearing a new business suit, sits with Shorty Taylor, the stocky gray haired manager and part owner of the minor league Gainesville Colt. As we join them now, Shorty is in high spirits. But Superman, still vainly searching his clouded mind for the secret of his real identity, seems far away.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Yes. First time I saw your pitch, I said I'd sell into the big leagues before the season was over. Remember?

[Gus Latimer]

Huh?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I said I'd get a hundred thousand dollars for you too. And I'd give you half it. And that's just what happened. Boy, oh, boy, was I lucky. Never. Boy, the first when you walked out of the Colts field, wasn't it?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Huh? What's that?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I said it was a lucky day. Say, what's the matter with you, Bud?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Who, me?

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Yeah, you. Yeah, I've been listening to a word I've been saying. Oh, yes, I come to think. But you haven't cracked a smile since I gave you the big news. Aren't you glad you're collecting 50 grand and going up to the big time?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Oh, sure. Sure, I am, Shorty.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

You certainly don't act it. You just keep on sitting there like you always do, as if you're a thousand miles away.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Sorry. I guess I was just thinking.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Thinking about what?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Oh, who I am and who you are.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

I'll tell you who you are. You're Bud Smith, that's who. The greatest pitcher and home run hitter that ever lived.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

I wish I could be sure of that.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Take my word for it. Why, I've seen all the great pitchers in the last 30 years. Barney, Alexander, Johnson, Hubble, all of them. I tell you, you're better than any of them in their best days.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Thanks, Shorty. They're very flattering. But I wasn't referring to my pitch. I was talking about my.

[Gus Latimer]

My name.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Your name.

[Inspector Henderson]

What do you mean?

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Well, you see, Shorty, I. Oh, what's the use? I'll just have to work this out by myself.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Look, Bud, just what is eating you?

[Announcer]

Oh, nothing.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Forget it, Shorty.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I'm just tired, I guess.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Sure, sure. Yeah. Now, that inside, you're pretty excited about going up to the big time, even if you don't show it. Look, I'll go back to my compartment. You go to sleep now, Bud. I'll wake you up in the morning before we get a Metropolis.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Okay. I am rather sleepy.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Sure. See you in the morning, pal.

[Superman/Bud Smith]

Right. Good night, Shorty.

[Superman Catchphrase Speaker]

Night. But.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Closing the door of Superman's compartment Shorty Taylor walks down the aisle of the train to his own compartment. And as he enters it, big George Latimer and Al McGuire step from the smoking compartment at the end of the car and start swiftly and quietly up the deserted aisle. As they approach Superman's door, Latimer takes the lead box from under his arm and slips the catch from the lid. The lurching of the train jars the lid up for a brief instant revealing the jagged piece of green, glowing kryptonite within. The strange metallic substance torn from the exploded planet on which Superman was born and which, when brought within 10ft of him in the atmosphere of earth, robs him of every ounce of strength. Once more, Superman's two arch enemies, Big George Latimer and the Kryptonite, are about to strike.

[Narrator]

What will happen? We'll find out in tomorrow's thrill packed episode, fellas, and girls. So be sure to listen. Don't fail to tune in again tomorrow, same time, same station.

[Commercial Announcer]

And remember, for breakfast, it's Kellogg Pep

[Narrator]

for excitement, the Adventures of Superman.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Narrator]

Now here is our star, very Simpson

[Commercial Stop/Interjection]

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