Even to leave poor buildings for a single boom guy.

Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another world who came to Earth with power and abilities far beyond those of marvel Man.

Superman who can change the course of mighty Rivers, then stealing his bare hands, and who disguised as bart and mild man of reporter for the great Better Public newspaper, write.

The never ending magical book to Justice and the American Way.

Well, greetings, folks, welcome back to Superman Saturdays here on the Old time radio mystery, suspense and horror podcast.

Your host here Dakota.

As always, if you have any comments you can send them to otr msh at gmail dot com.

All right, today is exciting because we kick off a brand new storyline here on the Superman Radio program.

And the title of this storyline is Airplane Disasters at bridger Field.

So let's go ahead and get into part one here.

This is Airplane Disasters at Bridgerfield Part one, which aired April twenty ninth of nineteen forty.

Enjoy presenting the transcription feature Superman.

I'm Gonna buy It's a bird, it's a play, It's Superman.

Superman, Mighty visitor from another world came to work when the planet Krypton was destroyed by quakes and explosions.

Superman who can bend steel in his bare hand leap tall buildings at a single bound, raised a speeding bullet to its target, who walked about among human beings as champion of the week and the oppressed in his character of Clark Kent news reporter.

As our story opens.

Today, Kenneth, returned from dealing with the Danelli gang of racketeers, has taken up his routine duties in the office of the Daily Planet.

Already a new and thrilling assignment lies just ahead, so Fark Kent knows nothing about it.

Find him at his death knocking out a story on his typewriter, while Jimmy Olsen, the Planet's copy boy, hangs around in open admiration.

Hi, mister Kenny, anything I can do for you?

Oh?

No, oh, thanks Jimmy.

Doing a follow up on the Dannali story.

Now this is something else.

Oh, wouldn't be anything about that airplane story, would it?

What was that about an airplane story?

Gee?

Didn't you see it?

All about them planes crashing down the bridger field out west?

Oh, it's keen.

I guess I missed it.

What's so keen about planes crashing?

That's pretty serious.

Oh, I didn't mean it that way.

It's just that I go for anything about planes budding pilot.

Eh, you said it, mister Ken.

The minute I get old.

Enough, you've got quite a while away.

Jim beat it now, Oh, somewhere else when I've finished this story.

Okay, mister Ken.

If I ever get a chance to fly, I'm telling you the daily plane will lead another copy boyd black head calling me mister White.

Yeah, I'm in my office a minute, will you.

I got somebody here I'll want you to meet.

You're a thing coming right along.

Close the door and pull up a chair.

Again, this is mister Hamler of the National Air Service O brouncle Sam during the war find into a private transport service.

Now, how do you do?

It?

Was to Hamlin?

I didn't know it was.

Again, you're not handling anything important, now, are you, Ken, sir.

Now that the Danelli gang is cleaned up, fine, Hamlin's going back west to Bridgerfield tomorrow and you are going with the bridge of Field.

You look a little startled.

Miss again.

If you've seen the stories, Ken, well, I've been hearing about them.

Five crashes of planes in two weeks.

That's right, isn't the dead?

Six?

Oh yeah, six in the space of the past two weeks, Ken, one of the most remote, least stone airports in the country, Six brand new transport planes have come down and playing What all of them?

Every single one?

Mister again?

Oh, what's the answer?

Oh, that's what we'd like to find out.

Mister Hammond's a friend of mine and I've told him you're a little bit more than the average reporter, not much more, but.

A little give you quite a little of miss Again.

If there's a story out there, Ken, you'll get it, and if you can find out at the same time, what's happening to our plane night Scott.

Mister Hamlin, you may to say you don't know, said Kent.

We haven't the faintest idea.

The things we're unbelievable.

What about the pilots, the men on board?

What do they say?

Go farther?

Been any survivors?

What it's more than an accident?

Can it's designed cold and deliberate and deadly as the white What makes you say that?

Go on ahead, tell them what you told me yesterday?

Know anything about Bridgefield if you can.

No, not a thing except that it's way out of the Southwest Rockies, right, most desolate country in the world, down near the border, completely surrounded by rocks and ravines and miles of desert.

If a plane comes down anywhere except on the field, well it cracks up.

That's all these planes, the ones you're talking about.

I'm getting to that.

I just wanted to explain the lay of the land.

Is the field deer any town twenty miles more or less?

Del Rio's just over the border.

What's at del Rio?

The usual thing?

Gambling joints, racetrack, Oh, yes, yes, the circus or what, Well, it's one a lot of amusements.

It's a lot of that tenth show for the hear of it.

Oh not me where it's not a very big one.

But it comes every year.

Saves us from dying of boredom.

That is, it did until two weeks ago.

What happened then, first of the accident.

Oh, since then we've not been bored.

Use me, mister White.

Telegram from mister.

Hamil heers, Thank you.

I I told him be to this jun me really, gentlemen.

Great Heaven's stay on's the maup.

It's another accident.

Yes, another accident, another plane crashed in planes everyone killed.

Justice has approached the fields paid?

What's going on out there?

Wait a minute, look here, I've changed my mind.

I said we'd go back tomorrow.

Ready whenever you are, mister Hamlin, this business can go on and establishing human there's something behind it.

I am going to print a field today.

If you want to come along again, well, heat me at the city airport.

In one hour.

Watch the tam can four o'clock.

The daylight pretty soon now, hey, you see it getting lighter in the east.

Already following when another two hours we're there the ship of miners fast.

I only hope nothing else is happened in the meantime.

I'll go on with what you were saying, mister Hamlin.

Oh yeah, yes about the plane.

Has I didn't tell you everything again?

No, No, I've been saving this for the last I didn't want you to think I'd gone crazy, lost my mind.

What is it?

Well, in those sixth pressure when we went out and examined the wreckage, there wasn't.

A trace of a motor.

What Oh, I don't expect you to believe it but it's true.

The engines of every one of those sixplanes simply vanished in the thin air.

And that's one of the.

Reasons I say this whole business is in the accident.

It's been planned and someone's behind it.

But who is he, captain?

What's he trying to accomplish?

What was that?

What happened?

Okay, there's a hole in the window.

Something went through the glass.

Take a look back at the bace compartment.

You again, if there's anything wrong, I'll go maybe loose.

That might have been a boat called back if you find anything, mister Hammond and someone on board.

Was that Hana?

We got a store away Shemmy Jimmy os Roby saw mister Kennon.

I sneaked on board at the airport.

Mister Keaton, I just had to come.

You mean to say, you've been hiding in there all the way.

I want to come out, and only something's happened.

I had to tell you, what are you talking about?

Mister Kent's a plane coming up behind, coming up fast, and the shooting at it.

I tell you they are.

Then you hear the bullet of it and a gold look out back.

You can see your wing lights they're right.

There is a plane back there and then shooting for the machine gun.

Jimmy, climb out of that compartment.

Something's happen to mister Hamlin.

Jimminy the plane then, think it's out of control?

Quick to Hamlin.

What's you go with?

Hamlin?

Listen, Jerry, mister Hamlin's my shot?

All those bullets here?

Quick?

How me get him out of there?

I gotta get to those controls.

Mister kitt can you find us enough to land this plane?

Quick?

I got him?

That's it.

I'll be laying on the floor here quick, mister plan the control bring around on a spit all right?

You mean?

Look got to mister Hamlin.

I canna handler.

Oh boy, that said mister Kent.

You got her?

What about that other plane?

Where is it here, mister Kent?

They're shooting again.

They're right on our tail.

They're trying to get over.

It's, mister kim what don't we do?

How much we can do?

When I'm sitting here, Jimmy, didn't I see a rifle in the baggage compartment?

There is money?

You want to bring it here fast?

There's just a chance here you are, mister Kent.

Look here Jimmy, you said you wanted to apply.

Well, now's your chat.

What do you mean?

More pole and they'll get us in a second.

Now, quick, Jimmy, slip in here and take the.

Controls order just as she is.

Can you do it?

I'll sure try.

Give me the stick just as she is.

Now here, mister Kent, where are you going?

I'm going to take that rifle and climate on the wing, Sey's shooting being done.

I guess we can do it.

Do want as they can?

Stay with it?

Now, Jimmy, hang one of those controls and don't lose your ear.

I'll be all right now.

Then out on the wing looked against dark.

I wouldn't want Jimmy to see his friend Clark can take a header into space as Superman, which is.

Just what he's going to do.

Out we go out and back pastor pasta.

You can't just take one fast dive of the propeller.

Here we go?

Does it down?

They go?

I'll just dive down out to them.

We find out what this is all about.

Jimmy.

What's the matter with Jimmy?

Plan's going down?

Who is that TAM's been?

Got to get back there?

Up?

We go up, up, I'm past.

Yeah, mister can mister KD come by, mister can Brot.

Jimmy here, I am.

What's the matter the plane it's spinning, it's out of control.

What's wrong?

Wait?

Just gotta bread and oil come from take the stick.

We're going down.

We're over.

That's it.

I haven't mister Ken that oil all over the glass.

I can't see if the rogan lime sprays over everything.

You have no found this way?

The motor it's missing, mister Chand we've done a land Hey on, Jimmy Plusier, We're no as far as we can this way.

Then we'll see.

It's a kid.

The motor it's getting wis you'll stop running any second.

Now.

High over the wastelands of the Southwest, with a missing motor and a wounded man in the cockpit, young Jimmy Olson and Kluk can look desperately for a landing place in the great darkness of early dawn.

Who was trying to shoot Hamlin's plane down?

And why what can Superman do to foil the plans of an enemy who so far.

Is not even known.

Tune in next time and follow the exciting story.

Up in the sky.

Whoop it's a bird, it's a plain, It's Superman.

Superman is a copyrighted feature appearing in Action Comics Magazine.

All right, everybody, welcome back.

Well I love that part in the beginning where Perry White was sort of trying to compliment Clark, I guess, and he was like, you know, he's more than the average reporter, not much more, But I thought that was kind of funny.

And then we have Jimmy Olsen, of course, do a classic move where he stows away in the plane and he's not supposed to be there, but he has found his way into this storyline.

And all these planes are crashing, engines are going missing, and a lot of mystery, and you know, we're just gonna have to stick around to find out what's happening.

All right, folks, we are going to take a quick break and then we'll be right back with Part two of Airplane Disasters at bridger Field.

All right, so let's go ahead and get into Airplane Disasters at bridger Field Part two, which aired May first of nineteen forty Enjoy.

Presenting the transcription feature Superman Up of the Sky.

Whoop, it's the bird, it's the thing, It's Superman.

And now Superman, Champion of the Week and the oppressed balliant fighter for truth than justice, who is faster than an airplane, stronger than a locomotive, and to walk the earth as a man among men in the character of Miles Clark.

Kent used reporter for the Daily Planet.

When we last saw him Superman as Dark, Kent was feeding westward in a plane with young Jimmy Oldts, an office boy from the Daily Planet city room, and the badly wounded form of Ed Hamlin of the National Air Service.

Another plane followed them and attended to bring them down with machine gun bullets.

With Hamelin badly hurt and young Jimmy at the controls, Superman fought off the mystery ship and returned to help Jimmy, only to find that a broken oil line had put their own plane and him in a danger of crashing.

As our starting continues today, the plane, with its motor failing and Kendida controls startes desperately for a landing place in the great darkness below.

Listen, mister Kent, what about it now?

How are we doing?

Can't tell you, Jimmy, We're losing atltitude all the time.

I'll tell you how much longer we can keep up their speed.

It's still pretty dark.

How's mister Hamler doing.

I don't know.

Mister Kenny's morning a little now.

And then when he's not conscious, take all the look below.

Peep you see anything?

Not yet?

Wait a minute, I do see something, mister Kennet's a light and then there's the light off to the left.

There's two sort of streaks out in front of me.

What are you talking about?

Where?

Look?

Don't you see it?

Right?

Scott?

Give me that the railroad.

What you see is the headlight of a train and whose streaks on the track.

We're right over, mister Ken.

That is, we're over the tracks.

The trains back a little way.

But she's coming right along all right.

I can't see much, little oil all over the window.

But here goes and my Jimmy grab hold of something on putting her down.

See, mister Ken, Ope, we don't clack up, we hit.

We made it, Jimmy.

We're glad it haven't met it out?

Will I bring it to a stand still?

A god for Hamlin?

Why that was perfect, mister Ken.

I never even got up.

Pump Oh that flashlight?

How'd you going out?

Quick over the door and jump down.

Mister Kent, there she comes.

Thank Kevin's winning the tracks.

Run for it, Jimmy, wave that light, wave at the circle, mister Ken.

They'll ever see us.

They won't stop.

If they will.

Ah, here we are now, then sad is where you are?

And wait, bad light?

They see us?

I see us.

Hey, anybody back there?

What's going on?

Not there?

See?

I'm trying to glad you stopped?

What's that you?

Listen?

I piged down the train.

We've just had a force plan to get an airplane.

Two men and a boy.

Where is he anyhow, Jimmy, Jimmy, see you certainly stopped after alls in there.

Hey listen, you're saying an airplane?

Who are you?

Whenyhow?

I'm a newspaper reporter.

I'll wait to bridge a field.

This is my my assistant.

Oh boy, just a little way back, you'll find a wounded pilot in the plane.

What's your name?

What that got to do with it?

First?

You must know it's Kemp park Camp, the Daily Planet and the best guy in the business.

I listen, mister, never mind about our pedigrees.

We've got to get our pilot to the nearest hospital.

He's hurt.

Hospital, Yeah, the hospital at Del Rio.

That's where we're going.

Well, let us a hand when you're We don't want to hold you up any more than we have to.

Here comes your gang.

Mister.

Oh, come on, man, you look as if you've seen a ghost.

Mister.

Our planes right here, the tracks, and mister Hermer needs help.

Let's go ye.

The brakeman of the circuit plane looks as if he'd seen a ghost, and perhaps he has.

For some time later, when Jimmy and Canter safely aboard with the wolded litter Hamlin and the punk and the circuit train again on his way.

The brakeman slips into a small.

Specially sound proof compartment which contains.

A short wave two way radio.

He speaks with a strange and little alone figure in tell Ryo, the silent man who handled animals for the Law back ten.

Show, who is known as Professor Hagen.

Listen you heil a man.

And the boy aboard the train now and the pilot.

There was three of them.

Pilot looks like he'd been shot and who he was?

He was trailed all the way and when he's potted back with that reporter, we had a special plane to color them and bring them down.

Was what's up?

Never mind?

Something may happen at any moment, right a moving talk radio field, My rimd, what do you mean your job is where you are?

The man can't must not arrive, you understand?

I understand?

The boy?

Yeah, he had a boy with him when we picked him up.

Very well.

Possibly might show the boy and can't.

The animals h showing the animals being on board the train retires.

The bold show them the snake showed them the gorilla.

Yeah, the gorilla will do very nice in the car.

I'm helping me.

Boss.

Listen, he's dangerous, he's half crazy.

Actually, imp make sure of his cage door.

Do you understand what I mean?

The cage door.

I don't get you.

Before you let the man and the boy enter the gorilla car, make sure of the cage door.

Leave the lampshof.

That's all I get you.

Hell, I'll make sure that all at all.

Report what happened?

Gee, you meet a se can look at the animals?

Ore?

Why not?

Gosh?

Then a swell guy, mister Canton, how he certainly doing the honors?

All right?

What's your name?

Mister Boldo?

They call me buldo, watch out of the door.

Say what are we stopping for?

We are stopping, aren't we?

Yeah, we're stopping all right?

Can we take on water?

Here?

Gee?

This open car is funny.

Where's the gorilla?

Just the head?

You got a car all of himself?

What's his name?

Jojo?

Is he holly wild wild Jojo?

Say, mister, he's otain.

He's right out of my hand?

Keene, what's time that Jojo?

Hey?

He doesn't sound to him.

He's just having fun.

He's loansome.

There isn't that any chance of his getting out of his cage?

Is that out of his cage?

Yeh, mister?

That cage is solid steel bars?

Doing you sick?

Here we are?

This is JoJo's you are Yojoe?

Hey, aren't you coming in?

I'll be bad.

I gotta see what's doing on the time.

You're sure it's all right?

Oh good god?

Go lock.

Right?

Well that's georgo Jimmy.

He's certainly big enough boy.

And how all right now, George?

All all right, it's only us, mister Kenn.

He's getting mad at all the time.

You don't suppose he can get out?

So yeah?

Oh got you mean he may be the same as that fella said, but he might not know us for friends.

Mister Kent the door at the can's door.

Something's going wrong the doors.

What do we do?

What do we do?

He's getting ready to spring edge back or the door won't make any sudden move.

He isn't doing anything so far.

It's making up his mind.

I'll stay where I am, mister Ken.

The door it won't open.

It's locked.

Locked, it can't be shaken, I tell you it is.

Let me make for the window some right.

Hold you back quick, mister mister help you.

I'll break the glass.

I'm chuck.

Now that I my heead goojo.

I don't know what's back in there.

I'd do it and go down my chance, but.

Can't stop for that.

Now see what happened to my gorilla meets a superman?

Joys.

Sorry about this.

I know you're just folly, but it's mighty rough for anybody else.

Don't fight.

I'll in your ears back.

You can't do a thing to me, Jojo.

This is just the beginning of what I'm going.

To do to you.

Get back, I said, back.

All right, let's.

See how are your bounce?

Oh, now you're really angry.

All right, I've had enough here.

Back in your cage, Jojo, Back in your cage.

I have to carry you there.

Come on, I said, come on, you can't might meet No, Joe, No, you can't do it.

You'll try fighting, you break your teeth.

He's your cage, Jojo in your goal there quick, now't going back in the place.

Station's out of the cage.

Now, where's Jimmy?

Where's that?

Bright?

Let me what's going on?

We're going We're left to hiding.

Jimmy, Jimmy, where are you?

Jimmy?

You there?

Boss, I'm here.

Ball your report.

Something went wrong.

The gorilla got loose.

The guy put the kid out the window.

Then he went to it with a gorilla.

Well, well, Boss, he put him back in the cave.

Hard, Oh your reform, but never mind, man's coming.

Calm more important.

Where's the man now?

Boss?

Listen, When he put the kid out the window, we was on the side.

Then we started up and the kid got lit.

So the guy dropped off.

And went back.

Hard, can snot on the train?

Are you?

I tell you?

Back in the middle of nowhere?

It's sure just as well, Alice Bolo.

Big things will happen in the next few day, bridger Field has the field.

I have you just heard something which has anyone I feel?

Hurry back?

Who hurry back and forget the boy and the lamb, him and may die?

And there's how much the better?

Hurry ball?

Who I have news when you get to the real.

Big thing just over the horizon, danger threatening bridger Field with the airplane pilots all unknowing.

Meanwhile, what of Kent and young Jimmy Olsen alone in the trackless desert?

Tune in next time and follow the exciting story.

Up in the sky.

It's a bird, It's a plain, It's Superman.

Superman is a copyrighted feature of Here in Action Comics Magazine.

All right, welcome back, everybody.

Just a few comments here and then we'll get you out of here.

First off, I love all the coincidences in this episode.

The first thing is they just happened to crash the plane right by the train tracks.

And add to that that the train just happens to be coming by at that same time, And add to that again that the train just happens to be able to stop to accommodate them.

Now, I don't know much about trains, but from what I do know.

They don't stop on a dime, and so the fact that this train was able to stop in time to help them was a little bit of a coincidence, I think, unless it was just a really slow moving train, which it may have been.

But I love that part where Clark is introducing Jimmy to the brakeman and he introduces Jimmy as his assistant, and Jimmy's like, oh boy, And I just love that sort of childish excitement of oh, I'm in the big leagues.

Now I'm the assistant to the reporter.

And we have another coincidence that the brakeman on the train that just happened to be coming by at the same time that they crash is one of the bad guys.

The brakeman on the train just happens to be one of the bad guys.

And I love how when he was talking to his leader, he was sort of acting not so bright.

He's like, gorilla, what about the gorilla or a cage?

What do you want me to do with the cage?

And that's obviously for the benefit of the kids, is to give the lead bad guy the chance to explain what his purposes are.

So that's obviously for but I love that part where Superman is fighting the gorilla is hilarious because we don't get to see this on a TV screen or anything, and so all we hear is the audio of the gorilla and Superman just sort of talking back to the gorilla.

Absolutely hilarious.

There will be several times on this show where Superman fights the animals, and at the end, Jimmy Olsen goes mysteriously missing, and we have the promise that big things are about to happen at bridger Field.

So a lot of excitement here, a lot of mystery.

I like how they're keeping it a mystery as far as what's going on here at bridger Field.

All right, everybody, that is going to be a wrap for today.

Thank you so much for listening.

Check out my other podcast, Time Radio Comedy, and again, if you have any comments, you can send them to O.

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