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Now it's time for today's episode of Superman and this is the last bud
call your episode. The original air date Januine Worry the twenty first of nineteen
fifty and this one is dead Men Tell No Tales. That's stud on a
fitting bullet or powerful than a locomotive, A those elite tall buildings at a
single bound up on the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane that's
trouper Man. The advent yourself Superman. When the planet drypped on home of
a race of Superman exploder than he does. The sole survivor was an infant
boy who had been shut to earth in a field rocket. Today, that
boy, grown to manhood, is known as Superman, foreign enemy of the
forces of evil. To wade him in his never ending fight for truth and
justice, he masquerades as Clark Kent, crime reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper.
His secret is carefully guarded. No one is aware that Kent is Superman.
No one but you going with us Now on ABC, as Superman faces
the gravest problem of his entire career, the possible exposure of his supple identity,
and an exciting Franscraft adventure entitled dead Man Tell No Tale. The horrible
realization that one day someone will discover that Clark Kent, mild mannered, bespectacled
crime reporter is in reality Superman. Has hung over Superman's head like the sword
of Damocles, for he realizes that once his dual role is exposed, he
will no longer be able to work in secrecy. And now that day has
come. Returning to his apartment late one night after covering a routine hold up
story at police headquarters, Clark Kent discovered that a secret caught it in his
bedroom had been broken into, and the spare Superman costume he kept hidden there
had been stolen. For a moment, he was dazed, then the full
important what had happened struck him like a savage blow. Whoever had stolen the
costume, unless he was stupid beyond the belief, was now aware that Clark
Kent was Superman. For almost an hour, can't taste the floor, unable
to think it. There were six million people in Metropolis, and the sneak
thief might be any one of them. Finally, in desperation, he called
in his friend, the private detective Candy Myers. All right now, Clark,
relax, relax. Not the end of the world, you know,
and it might be for me. Ah, stop it, no matter what.
The guy stole a cafe. That's bad. Let's have it from the
beginning. I told you. I got back from headquarters at eleven o'clock.
I walked into the bedroom and found the door of the closet opened. Okay,
what was message? Well, that's not important, Kenny, the important
be emain, It's not important. I gotta know what the guy left,
said darn, I he didn't take anything. Well, and what's the all
a fuss? I'm still broke into my apartment. I look palsy and not
pulling any wool over Candy Maya's eyes. In the first place, it's a
secret closet. In the second place, nobody has a secret closet and leaves
it empty. A third place, if the guy knew how to get it
open without jemming the door, he must have had a pretty good idea of
what was in it. No, No, he couldn't have known what was
in it. So there was something in it? Yeah, well, well
what Jeff, Jeff, what do they high now? Candy, believe me,
it doesn't matter. All I want to do is get the seat.
Is that all? Well? You know what I mean. I don't know
what you mean, but I sure know what you need. You neither swam
me with a crystal ball, not a detective Candy. Please, I look,
pal, you'll know as well as I do that whatever the guy took,
he's going to try and sell or hawk. The only way to put
the finger on him is to check every fence and hot shop in the steady.
Well, we can't do that unless we know what we're looking for,
Henry, But he won't try to sell or hawk this candy. It has
no value. Well then what are you all hating bother the back? Well,
it has value to me, in fact, it's every brother, No
candy, just do one thing for me. Well, just check the closet
door for a thinker print. He got your dusting kit with you? Yeah,
please, candy? Okay, but you sure like that those things are
hardware. That's the only way in this case. I wish I could tell
you more, Candy. Honestly, I do me more. Brother, You
haven't told me anything. Oh just for fun though, Clark. Guess the
guy didn't know what was in the closet. I mean, if he wasn't,
happen, how did he get it open accidentally? I'm sure it's on
an electric spring and it unlocks when you pull out the top drawer of my
desk. Are you sure it went to a lot of trouble I hide something
that doesn't have any value. Well, wait a minute. If what the
guy stock has no value, why did he take it? I don't know,
can't you're lying in your seat. There's no skin off my back.
The prints on the door, or get him after that? Tall, you're
on your own. Hello, Yes, this is Kenny. Oh yes,
malloy. Oh wait a minute, let me jot that down with you.
Yeah that's n O O N A N right, yes, yes, I
see, Yeah, Well thanks a lot, malloy. Right, okay,
Candy, Okay, what that was? Malloy At identification they tabbed the print
left Sye noon and twenty one arrests in three convictions in nineteen thirty eight.
So what so you can be picked up, Candy? Sure, if the
cops can find him. But if you think I'm going to get mixed up
in a caper where you bring a guy in and you ask him if you
heist an unmentionable thing out of Clark can't seek with closet? You're not?
I love it? Can it's heap past one. You'll handle this thing anyway
you want, Candy. I need your help. I can't call the police
in on this. I want you to find Noonan and bring him to me
just like that as well. You can do it if you want to,
sure, but whether let's get you look all I need is five minutes with
him alone in a room or alone anywhere with your frag hol Hello, yes,
put what let's have that again? Yes? Uh huh that's ten twenty
five? Eh I see no, no, no is it? It's just
a routine shake. Yeah, sure will right, Candy. Yeah, the
cop on this beat caught Noonan sneaking out of the delivery entrance of this building
at ten twenty five tonight. Wow, that does it? You don't made
me anymore? Twa dreams, Candy. Wait, he got away. He
broke loose before the product car showed up. The cop chased him, shot
at him twice and swears he hit him, but he got away. Yes,
but if he's wounded, he'll be easy to track down, don't you
think. Oh no, this is a big city with a lot of paper
in it. Just want me to bring him in. I'll try, Thanks,
Candy, let's say no, no, that that's right, I've caught
you. No, no, water lug went through his back, low down.
If it's in his belly, waters there, it don't look so good.
No sense getting lust up with the sawbones. If I don't mean that,
don't let him die? What do you mean? Let him? I
didn't put this log in him. I didn't tell him to come crawling up
here at one o'clock in the morning and fast out on my cause he's gonna
die on that cutch like you get a doctor off your fast So what and
all the same, all these two big creek where do they come when they're
in trouble? The Nick Morelli? Sure Nick Murer can fix anything. Nuts
so that I'm all through sticking my neck out coming to me. Sure they
can't even croak? Quiet? Okay, let's see what what? What's waters
all die? I give it to a much difference, you give it to
my hole? His head up anyway? Left? See it's water. Nice
nice match, Okay, boy, lay down, babby, it's just blood
in its now? Yeah, who bloves your left? See cop doing a
nice things? Yeah's your paper bags? Don't get up left, elation and
I have the baby bag? What's he talking about? It's carrying a paper
bag. It's not in the hole. Get it fa a awful right too,
But it passed away. Just don't move around top of the Bagness,
that's what you want, leftie? Yeah? What what's in it? M
what is it? That was kind of a fancy castle. So Superman,
right, Superman, Superman. Yeah, that's right, secret closet guy living
there, Superman. I don't get it. Does he means he found this
in a secret closet? Yeah? Yeah? And whoever is living where he
founded his Superman? Yeah he's grazy. No, no, my free Superman
like it looks like what Superman wears. Nick? Yeah, left, see
I don't live mack five five mm one sixty standish street guy must be Superman
with you highst is from his play. Yeah, secret closet hold on broad
closets closet open immediate, Nick, but it, oh Superman, are you
kidding me? Let's have the address again. Let's see flight a day one
sixty dandish but yes five mm hmm okay you you gotta come in there.
Mho should that cuts you in? Nice? Nick? Always do? M
always do? Oh m hm m hm yes, yeah to Dad, you've
gotta tell us more. You don't believe that's stuff about Superman. Don't you
can't tell? I can tell? Do you want to prove it? Light
a mat? You want to brood? Don't you ahead? Light a mine?
Okay, yeah, I try to burn this stuff? Three? Yeah,
oh, the match and close. Don't burn you sure? Okay?
You see light another one? This is no kind like I said, like
the match. Put it right up under the cloth, back right up against
what is it? That's creep? It was right, this is Superman's sound
fit it. Don't burn baby, this is are you going to handle with
me? First? Get me Land on the phone. He's got to come
up here with the boys and get this that creep out of here. Then,
baby, we figured it out the way to tie up this Superman character.
So from now on he worked for only one guy, Nick Morally,
the right baby, Nick Morally. H Oh wait, yep, Candy,
Yeah, oh, I was just thosing you get wide awake with a clothes
men, go back to s don't bother me again with any whacking tapers.
Did you find him, Candy? Yeah? Where is he? I'll come
right down way. You're gonna slapping them more dead? No, he couldn't
get a hotel room, so they ranted him a slap for the night.
What do you mean dead? When they reached them one the door. Oh
okay, Candy was finding an empty line on the south side about two miles
in place. One of the cops cloves going him in the back and that
was as far as you get. Well that's that. Thanks a million,
Candy, Thank you for what man. You don't know what this has done
for me. Thank You'll never know. I guess not nothing else can Okay
I think of anything canny? Well, should there be something? What about
that class? But you want to know whether the cops has been coming it?
Did they? Hello, Candy? Hello, I'm still did the candy
I know when? I don't even know when it ends? Did they recover
anything? That's when he added his pockets fifty flash senses steal Jemmy Smith and
westerfy bomb. No, no, not his pockets, Candy. Was he
what was he carrying? Anything? Well, like a coat or a toot
of clothes, a coat or a cloth. Yeah, and I'm coming up
and having a talk with you. Five Candy. If I said it once,
I said it a dozen times. I can't tell you what Noonan took
from that poset. I wish I could, but I can't. That's fine,
okay, hell okay, Just one more thing I'd like to say,
that is, if you don't mind gift the stockheads and Candy. I've known
you for five years. Rather you took the words right out of my math,
right out of my mad what word? You've known each other for five
years, and all that time, I've never seen you so jetery like that.
Oh nonsense, No, and says something's happened to shout to the paces.
You need help, clock, but you can't get it unless you're willing
to cooperate. If I could forget that, I'm a private sick. Well,
i'm your friend, and I'm trying to Who was that at three o'clock
in the morning. I don't know? Hello, department, Yes, who's
this? That's right? Who's calling? Who's the kid? Who's calling?
Something stolen from a closet in your bedrooms? And kids? Sorry, but
I can't answer any questions unless I know who's calling me. I think I
can get it back. If you're a friend, why won't you tell me
your name? If you want to get back what we're stolen, you better
come in a hurry and come along. Well, I I can't get out
right now. I'm waiting for some phone calls. Why don't you come here?
Hold a minute? All right again? A woman, She says she's
got all the stones from a class. Be careful, I am, yes,
Okay, we'll be down in twenty minutes, but make sure you're alone.
I'll be alone. Well, she'll be here in twenty minutes. Oh
brother, this is right up my alley. Oh okay, no, what
you'll have to go. I've got to see her alone. You're nat all
hide in the bedroom. Alone means alone? All right, I give up,
I'm through, I'm finished. Remember that I won't be able to help
you when you stretch out on a slab and I'm more like left say known
it. We'll be back in a moment for part two and the exciting conclusion
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Tell No Tales. Unaware that the telephone call he received was from Nick Morrelly's
girl, and that both the girl and the racketeer are aware of his double
identity. Dark Kent waits nervously and impatiently for their arrivals, but Candy Myers,
suspisies of an attempted foul play, has not given up as he threatened
to do. Although we left Kent's department, he is now waiting outside the
entrance to the building. It is almost three thirty in the morning, Sweet
is dark and silent. Suddenly, a car swings around the corner and moves
up in front of the building. Andy Myers stepped back into the shadow of
the doorway. None of this is there. It is yes, no dog
le us step bat of the dark like that again? Say then healthy and
sorry, I've been waiting for you, waiting for us. Yeah, and
Clark kent' oh I thought they were supposed to come up to the other part.
That's what you said of it. So yeah, I know, but
the fright so many might come in and you said I had to be alone.
You've got people coming in at three thirty in the morning. Well you're
saying my business. You just can't tell you know what it means. So
okay, you want to go to my place? Even got a nick them
can showing the proof somebody as yours? Okay, the kid, that's cool.
M you can make suf Thanks. I've got a little drink. Have
a touch it mo now thanks? Really athletic diet sans amazing. You sure
look different sitting there different? And why well you're trying the kids gets me
at eye and sew the bread just because you don't drink mean I don't have
cross now go right ahead. Okay, I must be wondering where I fit
into this, so yeah, why but there it is. I know,
the creep that busted into your the class and then cut something out of your
classes. Thanksty, matter of fact, I got for the high stood of
you you have. Yeah, when I get it back, then you better.
I go, okay, what is it? USh? You heard me?
What does the creep cup out of your classes? You got it?
You now? That ain't what I asked? Right? What was it?
Then? Like a cod or thuda? Close? That kind of a suda
clothes? Give it a name? What do you mean? Give it a
name? Get the front when the shape down, they don't move? Guys,
what are you put on a gun on me? Find out quick?
Okay, back the front door. Make sure it's luck. You and me
are gonna find out something, all right? The angle is I think maybe
this guy's a pony. I don't like the smell of it. What are
you talking at? Buy? Get up? Come on, get up?
Sure I make with the talk. All you gotta do is lick. One
thing Nick Murray don't like is getting the double cross. You don't like it
for nothing. So if Nick Murray thinks the guy who's flipping the finger,
he's right away quick takes care of it. See no, I'm swing the
talking, remember, go ahead? Thanks? Sometimes maybe it happens. Nick
Murray makes a mistake, it gives the business to the wrong guy, the
guy who ain't slipping him no fingers. But with you, it don't matter.
If you're the guy you're supposed to be, nothing's gonna happen. If
you ain't, then you're trying to slip money is a finger and you gotta
coming. That's why I'm not allowed to taught. So say what you gotta
say. All I gotta say is I don't know why you pull a gun
on me, and I don't know what you're shooting your mass of app FID.
Maybe I'm wrong, So I we'll find out quick, find out why.
If you're the right guy of the wrong guy, I'm gonna taught a
couple of thirty had plugged your way. You're the right guy, okay,
if you're the wrong guy. At that pigeon, caught in a blind crap,
unaware that Morelli is trying to determine whether or not he is Superman,
Tandy Myers faces the steel black muzzle of a gangster's gun, an almost certain
Meanwhile, in his apartment, Markkin glances at his watch with adense time five
minutes to four. She called it the latter three and she said twenty minutes,
almost an hour. I'm not gonna wait any longer. Forty five Carlton
Street. I'll pay her a visit. As Superman, removing his horn rimmed
glasses and stripping off his business up the skies, Clark can't emerges in the
brilliant red and blue costume of Superman raising a window. The only human being
on earth who numbers among his amazing powers the power of light, leaps out
into the darkness. Hovering for a timeless moment in midair, he gets his
bearings and then, like an arrow shot from a bowl, feeds across the
city and drops down on the side walk in front of the Suckle House.
A forty five cart one glance and his X ray vision shows him the scene
inside the house. Great Scott hencing every mustherle in his powerful body, Superman
crashes through one of the blind drawn windows and like a human projectile strikes Candy
Myers ducked him uncontched cop almost at the instant the gun and Nick Morelli's hands
blasted out. Maria, it doesn't end rock that gut. First, I
gotta make sure all right, all right, Throp, that's better we talk
things. Oh, I've got nothing to talk over with you, unless it's
a matter of attempted murder. If I'd been a split second light, that
bullet would have killed him. So why did he have to try to slip
me the finger telling me he was ken? Is that's what he did?
Ask her? Yeah, he was waking? No scares where you live?
What do you mean where I live? One sixty stands? We know the
score. Your name is Clark skin? You know too much? Could be
what's your name? Nick MORRELLI? And yours? Never mind? Yeah,
maybe I do know too much. Only what I know phase off does it?
I think? So what I mean is the only one know the tupid
creep busted into your joint. He's dead. So from here and then you
do business with me, Nick MORRELLI? Is that so? Yeah? I
kinda. If you don't, I'm gonna do a little talking and that's gonna
put you out of the superman racket. But quick, what if I see
to it that you can't do when they're talking? You know dead men?
Tell no, Taylor, you ain't gonna knock a soft That ain't your way
Right now? I wish it were relaxed and mister kin, but would you
like for me to score your Superman? You don't have to call me anything.
Where's the costume that was stolen from my closet? I'm not in any
mood, but talking where is it? Yelling ain't gonna get you? All
right? Then maybe this well, well you're flicking my arm? Where is
that where I stuck it? One answer to this, I've got to put
both of you some place where it won't matter how much fucking you do.
Are you gonna act like this floor? We can make it to you.
I don't make it the shooter pot don't accept. You've made your bed and
now you're gonna sleep, and I get your coats on. You heard what
I said, get your coats off, going or a little ride to your
new home. Now, I'm warning you, this mountain top is four thousand
feet high and there's no way down. You're murdering us for freezer bay.
I'll be back with everything you need and pulling a foilo. You won't freeze
or start. Why do you throw this spot? I saw you, I
was willing to forget it. I even saw you want to crush your hair,
and you're telling me it isn't worth much. I'll spread it on a
stack of fiber that's worth let from you. Oh this is how it's got
to be till I can think of something else. You too, are gonna
live up here. Please please give us a break. You're getting up break
I remember, don't fighter escape, I'll be back. Leaping into the still
darkened sky, Superman hovers in curious flight above the mountain top, watching the
tiny figures of the gangster and his girl. Then, just as he is
about to turn in mid air and head for Metropolis, he notices with horror
that hand in hand they are attempting to make their way down a steep slope,
a stupid fool. Arching his powerful body, Superman prepares to swoop down
after them, but he is too late. Loose sand and gravel rolls under
their feet, and losing their balance, they pitched forward headlong, their bodies
striking a ledge and bouncing off like sawdust stummies, falling to the valley four
thousand feeps below. Hello, Hello, this is Candy, Candy. What
happened to you? You sound terrible? Happened? And that he hadn't happened
to a dog? Somebody hit me in the back in her head with a
telephone, laughing, laughing, Candy, I just clearing my throat. You're
in trouble. I'm in trouble. Yeah. The name of Morelli has got
whatever was coping your quiet. Oh, don't worry about it, Candy.
I got it back. I got it back. Yes. And Morelli and
the girl a diad They fell off a mountain. Oh, that does it.
I know. I should have had more brains than get mixed up in
it. It fell off a mountain, that's right. Sure. And I'm
thick, Tracy, And you're a Superman. That's right, Candy. Good
night, Good night, Candy, and so and dead men tell no tales
on the Adventures of Superman, which I have come to you each week at
this same time over many of these Tame ABC stations. With tonight's broadcast,
we end the current series of Superman Adventures. Thank you for listening. We
hope to be back with you shortly, bringing you radio's most fabulous character in
thrilling stories of action, mystery and adventure. Oh be sure to listen when
next again you hear that familiar cry I stood on a speeding bullet, or
powerful than a locomotive able to eleas tall buildings at a single bound up on
the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane, It's Cooperman. Cooperman
is a copyright Advanced Tribe feature appearing in Superman DC Comic Magazine. The role
of Cooperman has been played by Budd Gollyer. Music has been composed and played
by John Guard Missus Jackson Beck saying goodbye for the present and hoping to say
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This episode was adapted from the radio serial The Mystery of the Stolen Costume,
and itself was actually adapted to the TV episode from series one or season
one of Superman, The Mystery of the Stolen Costume. It plays out almost
exactly on television as it did in today's radio episode. It's a good story
in that it does expose a Superman to some risk, which is pretty rare.
I think that moral A probably overstates his case as to what the possible
effect of Clark kennon superman dual identity being revealed. It's less likely to be
the end of Superman than it is to be the end of Clark Kent.
In more modern versions, there's more attachment to the Clark Kent persona. But
in this pre crisis situation, where Clark Kent has no family, no living
relatives, it's pretty easy to start over again. I remember a silver Age
Superman story where Superman gone amnesia and thought he was a British guy. This
was a silver Age and then he figured out he was Superman, and then
he remembered that he was not really the British guy but Clark Kent. However,
he exposed his British guy identity to Lois Lane, and when she discovered,
he said, well, I'm just gonna have to go and take another
identity. By having Candy Myers in this situation actually creates a different dynamic than
having Batman in the original serial version, but it does work in a way.
It's a psychological pressure. You are in crisis, you want somebody to
help, but because it's about a secret you're trying to keep, you can't
actually tell him anything helpful. You can certainly understand how that would be very
frustrating for Kenny Myers. I will say my big problem with this is that
the story really puts Superman in a moral dilemma whether to take a life or
to allow his identity to be revealed, potentially impacting his ability to save other
lives. He makes a choice not to kill the criminals, but is rescued
from actually having to deal with the consequence of keeping these two permanently prisoner forever.
I'm just doing something that's really, really still it's a good classic story,
and that's what we end on. I should note that Bud Collyer's time
is Superman on the Radio was over, but he would come back in the
nineteen sixties to play Superman in the New Adventures of Superman TV series, providing
the voice to Superman for sixty eight more animated adventure add to that the Fleischer
and Famous Studio cartoons and more than a thousand episodes on the radio, well
more than a thousand episodes. And Callier really was a key figure in Superman
and introducing him to generations of kids. So a wonderful legacy. And we
are almost done with this series, but we have one more episode and I'm
gonna try something crazy and next week try and have it on time. Sorry
about the latest weekend last week, but we will be wrapping up Superman.
So send your comments to Adam at Adams web dot us. I am thinking
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