BONUS - Superman Summer: Lighthouse Point Smugglers
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
There's no rest for the weary! Even on vacation, Superman and his friends can't help finding a new adventure. For the final installment in our bonus series, we'll listen as Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen battle smugglers and hunt for a legendary treasure in these episodes that originally aired between July 22 and August 2, 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 bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets, the last |
| 0:49.0 | installment in our Superman summer series. |
| 0:53.0 | Last week, Superman saved Happyland Amusement Park from ruin at the hands of unscrupulous rivals. |
| 1:00.0 | This week, our story opens at the Daily Planet with a call for help from Jimmy Olson. |
| 1:06.8 | We haven't seen the Daily Planet Copy Boy for a while. |
| 1:10.2 | It turns out Perry White sent him on vacation to Maine. |
| 1:14.0 | But Jimmy tells White and Clark that smugglers are operating at Lighthouse Point, |
| 1:19.6 | not far from where he's staying with his aunt. |
| 1:22.8 | When Jimmy hangs up abruptly, Clark decides to fly up to investigate. |
| 1:28.4 | Soon he and Jimmy are on the hunt for a legendary Jade treasure as they try to stop the smugglers and help Jimmy's end hold on to her home. |
| 1:38.1 | So now with Bud Collier back as the Man of Steel, let's listen to the smugglers at Lighthouse Point. |
| 1:44.4 | Presenting the transcription feature, |
| 1:51.0 | Superman! description feature Superman. Superman. |
| 1:54.0 | Now, look, it's a plane. |
| 1:58.0 | It's Superman! |
| 2:00.0 | Now Superman, mighty visitor from another world who came to Earth when the planet |
| 2:06.8 | Krypton was destroyed by Quakes and Explosion. |
| 2:10.0 | Superman who can bend steel in his bare hand leaped tall buildings to the single bound, |
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