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The Adventures of Superman

1,000 episodes · 1940–1950 · Mutual, Syndicated, ABC · Juvenile

Bud Collyer
Bud Collyer

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The Adventures of Superman premiered February 12, 1940, on WOR in New York, a daily fifteen-minute serial, later sponsored by Kellogg's Pep. Bud Collyer voiced both Clark Kent and Superman, dropping his voice for the change, and his identity was kept secret until 1946. The radio show gave the legend kryptonite, Perry White, and Jimmy Olsen. It ran 2,088 original episodes, with no reruns, until March 1, 1951.

Sources: The Adventures of Superman (radio series), Wikipedia; RadioGOLDINdex (1940 chapters syndicated, commercials added locally)

Episodes

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  • A Mystery for Superman, Part 1 February 27, 1942 · Syndicated · 12 min
    A fake telegram separates Clark and Jimmy from Lois on a train, and when Superman gets back, Lois is gone.
  • A Mystery for Superman, Part 2 March 2, 1942 · Syndicated · 12 min
    Lois calls and says she needs twenty thousand dollars right away. Then Perry asks for another twenty thousand.
  • A Mystery for Superman, Part 3 March 4, 1942 · Syndicated · 12 min
    Clark disobeys Perry, and Lois walks into his office just after talking to him on the phone.
  • A Mystery for Superman, Part 4 March 6, 1942 · Syndicated · 12 min
    Lois accuses Clark of being Superman, and a witness's address turns out to belong to someone else. Is Clark going crazy?
  • A Mystery for Superman, Part 5 March 9, 1942 · Syndicated · 12 min
    Perry congratulates Clark on his second anniversary at the Daily Planet. The end of the story and of the syndicated run.
  • The Tiny Men, Part 3 September 17, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Over London, Superman carries a crippled plane and draws British antiaircraft fire.
  • The Tiny Men, Part 4 September 18, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Lois interviews a London bus conductor, and a Frenchwoman is poisoned by the Tiny Men.
  • The Tiny Men, Part 8 September 24, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Superman uses a Nazi time bomb to bring down a German bomber, and the figures at Madame Tussaud's seem to come alive.
  • The Tiny Men, Part 9 September 25, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    A phony Beefeater traps Lois and Jimmy in the dungeon of the Bloody Tower.
  • Mystery in Arabia, Part 2 September 30, 1942 · 15 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • Mystery in Arabia, Part 4 October 2, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Is Lois really a Polish countess? She's found unconscious in a chair.
  • Mystery in Arabia, Part 5 October 5, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The countess disappears, and so do Lois and Sir Mycroft Bittersweet.
  • Mystery in Arabia, Part 6 October 6, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Superman makes a fortune teller explain the man in the red fez.
  • Mystery in Arabia, Part 7 October 7, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The fortune teller admits he's Sir Mycroft, and Lois goes back to the old mosque.
  • Mystery in Arabia, Part 8 October 8, 1942 · 15 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • Mystery in Arabia, Part 9 October 9, 1942 · 15 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Black Narcissus, Part 3 October 14, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Jimmy wasn't kidnapped by the cult of the Black Narcissus. He staged it himself, but why?
  • The Black Narcissus, Part 4 October 15, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    An assassin strikes in the night, and the trail leads to Africa.
  • The Black Narcissus, Part 5 October 16, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Jimmy is poisoned by a thorn of the Black Narcissus.
  • The Black Narcissus, Part 6 October 19, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The serum Jimmy needs is a thousand miles away, and Nazi planes bomb Khartoum during his operation.
  • The Black Narcissus, Part 7 October 20, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Superman stands on the hospital roof catching thousand-pound bombs.
  • The Black Narcissus, Part 9 October 22, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    A one-eyed man hypnotizes Lois, then takes poison when Clark confronts him.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 2 October 27, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Shopping for a trip to Hudson Bay, Perry is shot at from close range.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 3 October 28, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Clark catches the bullet barehanded and tells Perry and Lois he's Superman. A killer called the Laugher wakes up.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 4 October 29, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The Laugher against Superman, a fight to the death.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 5 October 30, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The Laugher plans to bomb Perry and his friends.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 6 November 2, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Clark smothers the bomb in his hands, and something's wrong with the plane to Ottawa.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 7 November 3, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Jimmy stows away, Clark is fired and rehired, and their old bush plane's engine fails.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 8 November 4, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Superman saves the plane, and the Laugher makes new plans.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 9 November 5, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Clark's only fellow passenger on a rented plane is the Laugher, and a storm hits.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 10 November 6, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The legend: whoever hears the cry and sees the Headless Indian three times will die.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 11 November 9, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    A flying horse, and the Laugher shoots Perry.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 12 November 10, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Perry will recover, but the Laugher threatens them all.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 13 November 11, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Perry and Jimmy go into the woods alone, and a grizzly attacks.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 14 November 12, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    The Laugher charms Lois while Perry fights the grizzly with a knife.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 15 November 13, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Superman must fly Perry to a doctor just as the Laugher is about to shoot Lois.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 16 November 16, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    The Laugher's gun blows up in his face, and he and Lois are lost in a blizzard.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 17 November 17, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Freezing, Lois sees the Headless Indian.
  • The Headless Indian, Part 18 November 18, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Superman learns the secret of the Headless Indian and breaks up a ring of counterfeiters. Is the Laugher back?
  • The Headless Indian, Part 19 November 19, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    The new Laugher is the old one's double. The end of the story, and a plaster statue starts the next one.
  • The Midnight Intruder, Part 2 November 23, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    A madman dressed as a pirate is smashing plaster statues.
  • The Midnight Intruder, Part 5 November 26, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Jimmy and Superman open with a Thanksgiving message, and a crazy clown caught smashing statues is murdered in his cell.
  • The Midnight Intruder, Part 6 November 27, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Clark and Jimmy interview the sculptor, and Superman faces three armed men in Clark's apartment.
  • The Midnight Intruder, Part 7 November 30, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    The statues hide the formula for the most powerful explosive ever made, and Professor Graves is missing.
  • The Midnight Intruder, Part 8 December 1, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Superman rescues Professor Graves from a gangster's car.
  • The Midnight Intruder, Part 9 December 2, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Spies plan to use ether gas to get the formula.
  • The Midnight Intruder, Part 10 December 3, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Spies and their American henchmen plan to hold up the armored car carrying the formula.
  • The Midnight Intruder, Part 14 December 9, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The formula is headed for Tokyo, and Superman boards an enemy submarine to get it back. The end of the story.
  • The Lost Continent of Atlantis, Part 1 December 10, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    A crackpot plan for a submarine base on the ocean floor, or is it?
  • The Lost Continent of Atlantis, Part 2 December 11, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The submarine dives, with a motorcycle aboard, and the ballast tanks jam.
  • The Lost Continent of Atlantis, Part 3 December 14, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Clark pretends to panic so he can save his friends in the dark, and a Nazi U-boat opens fire.
  • The Lost Continent of Atlantis, Part 4 December 15, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    The Nazis seize the submarine, and Superman lifts the U-boat out of the water.
  • The Lost Continent of Atlantis, Part 5 December 16, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    Superman gets Jimmy to a doctor. How will he get back aboard without giving himself away?
  • The Lost Continent of Atlantis, Part 7 December 18, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    A giant octopus grabs the submarine.
  • The Lost Continent of Atlantis, Part 8 December 21, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    Superman fights the octopus as the submarine springs a leak.
  • The Mystery Ship, Part 1 December 23, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    The submarine is wrecked by a tanker that seems to be deserted.
  • The Mystery Ship, Part 2 December 24, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    A scream in the fog aboard the empty tanker.
  • The Mystery Ship, Part 4 December 28, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    An old man covered in seaweed turns into a pile of seaweed.
  • The Mystery Ship, Part 5 December 29, 1942 · Mutual · 15 min
    The old man of the seaweed captures Lois.
  • The Mystery Ship, Part 6 December 30, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    A famous British dog trainer turns out to be an impostor.
  • The Mystery Ship, Part 7 December 31, 1942 · Mutual · 14 min
    The dog trainer is a Nazi spy. The end of the story.
194313 episodes
  • The Tin Men, Part 2 January 5, 1943 · Mutual · 15 min
    The Vulture steals the model of Professor Cameron's mechanical man and shows it to enemy agents.
  • The Tin Men, Part 3 January 6, 1943 · 14 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Tin Men, Part 4 January 7, 1943 · 15 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Tin Men, Part 5 January 8, 1943 · 14 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Tin Men, Part 6 January 11, 1943 · Mutual · 14 min
    The Vulture escapes from prison, and the Tin Man is stolen from a locked vault.
  • The Tin Men, Part 8 January 13, 1943 · Mutual · 14 min
    Superman rescues Lois at the aircraft plant, and work goes on on the Tin Man.
  • The Tin Men, Part 10 January 15, 1943 · 14 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Tin Men, Part 11 January 18, 1943 · Mutual · 15 min
    The Vulture kills the man who hired him, and "Clark Kent" turns out to be the Vulture in disguise.
  • The Tin Men, Part 12 January 19, 1943 · 15 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Tin Men, Part 13 January 20, 1943 · Mutual · 14 min
    "An Experiment in Horror": Jimmy is the Vulture's prisoner, and Perry and Clark get a phonograph record.
  • The Tin Men, Part 14 January 21, 1943 · Mutual · 14 min
    Superman catches a bullet, the mechanical man is destroyed, and the Vulture is caught again. The end of the story.
  • Dr. Cameron's Helicopter, Part 4 March 22, 1943 · Mutual · 14 min
    The Vulture plans to confront Professor Cameron with his worst fear, snakes. The professor has a helicopter that folds into a suitcase.
  • The Vulture and the Thunderbolt Express, Part 3 March 25, 1943 · Mutual · 13 min
    Clark has Mrs. Gaunt released so she'll lead him to the Vulture, and she vanishes aboard a train.
19443 episodes
1945109 episodes
1946253 episodes
1947179 episodes
1948174 episodes
19499 episodes
19504 episodes
  • The Ghost of Billy Baker January 7, 1950 · ABC · 28 min
    A half-hour story: at a troubled mine, Lois hears the legend of Billy Baker and disappears.
  • The Voices of the Dead January 14, 1950 · ABC · 29 min
    A half-hour story: a one-show version of the 1941 voice machine serial.
  • Dead Men Tell No Tales January 21, 1950 · ABC · 28 min
    A half-hour story: Superman's costume is stolen, and the thief knows his secret. The last show of the season.
  • The Story of Marina Baum November 23, 1950 · ABC · 24 min
    A half-hour story: Jimmy fights over remarks about a friend, in a story about tolerance for people who are different.