Radio Retropolis

A man rejected by his estranged wife decides to kill her and uses a gullible, smitten woman to unknowingly carry out the deed.  Commentary on star Dennis O'Keefe.

With the Daily Planet and the Metropolis Police Department teaming up to squash these racketeers, Perry White decides to publish a scathing article that may cost him his life.  JR talks about real racketeers of 1946 and how Superman got it right.

Liz is determined not to be left out of the baseball game at the Annual Bank Outing, so she persuades her neighbor Mr. Wood to teach her how to play the game.

With Superman desperately searching for Jimmy and Beanie who are trapped in the burning building, he realizes there is more to this racket that goes much deeper into corruption than he thought.  Commentary on why this is a most relevant serial for 1946 America.

A college student and her friend go pay a surprise visit on an aunt she hasn't seen for a while. But it is they who get the surprise when they encounter the aunt's cat.

An evil businessman kidnaps his partner and keeps him in a burial vault. He wants him to sign a confession stating how he killed himself by drowning.

A woman, Barbara, who married for money meets Alex whom she instantly falls in love with.  At the same time an old boyfriend resurfaces who still has feelings for her.  Seeing an opportunity to escape her marriage to be with Alex, she schemes to frame her old boyfriend for the murder of her husband.  JR speaks on what could have been a better plot twist than what was heard.

Jimmy and Beanie’s peril becomes more frightening as they find themselves tied in a building engulfed in flames and nobody knows they are there. JR comments on the marketing trick used in the Pep Cereal Comic Buttons.

Liz and George arrive home from vacation to find that someone has been ordering strawberry ice cream from the milkman every day, and the pink trail leads to the doorstep of their new neighbors, Mr. & Mrs. Wood, and their ten children.

Kent is unaware of the serious danger Jimmy and Beanie are in as an even bigger threat is looming that will hasten their demise.  JR comments on the importance of Jimmy Olsen in the radio episodes and what each of the main characters  brings to the series.

Two nefarious opportunists stuck in Brazil stumble across a spider as big as a dog, deep in the jungle. Obviously, this is their ticket home if they can catch it-before IT catches them!

The Shadow breaks up a spy ring who are destroying shipyards and sinking submarines.

An explorer deep in the Amazon jungle is saved from near death by an old hermit whose only request for saving the explorer’s life is that he be read Dickens novels all day long…for the rest of his life. JR comments on the sad life of Richard Ney.  Plus we look at writer Richard Breen's working relationship with Jack Webb.

Jimmy and Beanie are on their own as they try to expose the phony song publishers as racketeers, but unfortunately for them the racketeers are suspicious.  JR comments on Your Hit Parade which Jimmy mentions.

Liz hears about the Atterbury’s Halloween party and is upset that she and George just weren't invited. So she decides to throw her own and invite all her friends who turn out to be busy that night.

Jimmy, upon believing racketeers have extorted $500 from Poco for their phony song publishing company, decides to go undercover to expose them.  JR comments on the Christmas Seals PSA in this episode.

Two network secretaries find themselves the object of bizarre occurrences while typing out a script for Lights Out.  Mercedes McCambridge, who just appeared in the episode Execution, returns to fine form as Oboler secretary Bernice whose very sanity is given the ultimate test.

The Shadow breaks up a counterfeit ring who are terrorizing a poor neighborhood.

A mystery writer plagiarizes an unreleased and thought to be unknown manuscript of Edgar Allan Poe as his own to which he has received high accolade. But someone else knows his secret which could ruin him. JR speaks on box office hit films that were sued for plagiarism.

While Kent and White are anguishing over what could Poco be doing, Jimmy decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists Beanie to help find the truth.  JR counts down the The Best Superman Movies of All Time.