BONUS - Superman Summer: Disaster at Bridger Field
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Why are so many planes crashing at Bridger Field? It's a story for Clark Kent and a new adventure for the Man of Steel in this week's bonus Superman show! Kent and Jimmy Olsen are on the scene to investigate the series of disasters in these episodes that originally aired between April 29 and May 10, 1940.
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| 0:00.0 | True to his threat, the mad scientist, whose warnings have held the city in a grip of terror, |
| 0:04.8 | went on his rampage of destruction on the stroke of midnight. |
| 0:08.2 | The deadly impact of his mysterious ray smashed the famous tower bridge, hurling cars and pedestrians into the river below. |
| 0:15.0 | The police have warned everyone to remain in their homes. |
| 0:19.0 | This looks like a job for Superman. Hello and welcome to this week's bonus Superman's summer episode of |
| 0:48.0 | down these mean streets. Last time we met Jimmy Olson and joined Superman as he battled a protection racket led by a dangerous mobster. |
| 0:59.0 | Today a new adventure for the Man of Steel begins when Clark Kent investigates several mysterious |
| 1:05.4 | plane crashes at Bridger Field. Are they coincidences or could this be the work of a dastardly |
| 1:12.2 | villain and if the crashes are man-made? Or could this be the work of a dastardly villain? |
| 1:13.0 | And if the crashes are man-made, |
| 1:16.0 | how can one man cause so many planes to crash without any apparent cause? |
| 1:21.0 | It's an adventure that brings Clark and Jimmy to the southwest |
| 1:25.2 | where they discover a connection to a nearby circus and find a scientist in |
| 1:30.4 | his secret machine. |
| 1:33.0 | Now sit back and enjoy Superman in the adventure of Bridger Field, starring Clayton Bud Collier |
| 1:40.1 | as Clark Kent and the Man of Steel. |
| 1:50.0 | Presenting the transcription feature, Superman. |
| 1:54.0 | Up in the sky, look, it's a bird. |
| 1:59.0 | It's a plane. |
| 2:00.0 | It's Superman. |
| 2:02.0 | Superman. It's Superman! Superman! Superman! |
| 2:05.0 | Mighty visitor from another world who came to Earth when the planet Krypton was destroyed by quakes and explosions. |
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