First aired in 1936.

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.

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First aired May 5, 1938.

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.

Two new episodes a week. Live around the clock: The Green Hornet on Stupid Potato

About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

Newspaper publisher Britt Reid and reporter Ed Larry approach James Conway, a grand jury investigator probing gambling graft in the county. Conway, who has evidence against a gambling ring and its protectors, has returned from Chicago and his daughter Polly has gone missing after meeting his plane. Britt Reid arranges to help secretly, while the gang holding Polly plots a trap at a bridge. The story is part of the Green Hornet radio series, first broadcast May 24, 1938.

With Britt Reid, James Conway, Polly Conway, Ed Larry, Cato, Dick Slocken, Sheriff Materling, Steve.

Listen for: Britt Reid's plan to pose as one of the gang and the telephone call in which the kidnappers speak with James Conway.

First aired on May 24, 1938.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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Insurance advisors Dougal and Webster are challenged in court after pressing a poor widow, Mrs. Rivera, for a hundred-dollar fee for advice she could have had free. Publisher Reed runs an editorial warning the public against such advisors, and the men soon receive a note hinting that one of their clients knows the identity of the Green Hornet. Dougal and Webster begin questioning people around the city, and their suspicions fall on a roomer named Lund. The Green Hornet and Kato are following the same trail, and the episode ends with the Green Hornet confronting the men who wish to blackmail him.

With Green Hornet, Kato, Britt Reid, Dougal, Webster, Mrs. Rivera, Reed, Lund.

Listen for: The courtroom case over Mrs. Rivera's hundred-dollar fee, Reed's editorial, and the anonymous note about the Green Hornet's identity.

First aired on November 1, 1938.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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Journalist Reed of the Daily Sentinel and crime reporter Conway discuss the gambling ring in the city, and Conway's daughter Polly comes to meet him at the airfield. Conway is seeking evidence against a corrupt sheriff and his crooked deputies, and he offers the paper a scoop in exchange for information on the Green Hornet. Polly, driving her car, is stopped by a gunman and taken to the offices of the Daily Sentinel, where the staff debate the story and where Reed's men search for the Green Hornet. The transcript covers only the first part of the episode, so the full course of the story is not shown here.

With Conway, Reed, Polly Conway, Larry, Casey, Cato, Gunigan, Green Hornet.

Listen for: Reed and Conway bargaining over the Green Hornet information, and Polly being seized at gunpoint

First aired on April 6, 1939.

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First aired May 25, 1939.

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.

Two new episodes a week. Live around the clock: The Green Hornet on Stupid Potato

About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.