The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1940–1941
- Surviving broadcasts
- 170
- Genre
- adventure
Adventures of Superman is a radio show which aired between 1938 and 1951 on Mutual and ABC with Kelloggs as a sponsor. While being aired on Mutual it was a 15 minute show but was increased to a half hour aftering moving to ABC.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1940, in original transmission order.
- 1. Yellow Mask And The · 8 Nov 1940
- 2. Invisible Man 1 · 11 Nov 1940
- 3. Invisible Man 2 · 13 Nov 1940
Last Of The Clipper
14 Mar 1941 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 14 March 1941. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dragons Teeth 1
3 Mar 1941 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 3 March 1941. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dragons Teeth 0
28 Feb 1941 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 28 February 1941. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Black Pearl Of O
7 Feb 1941 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 7 February 1941. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Howling Coyote 1
13 Jan 1941 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 13 January 1941. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Howling Coyote 0
1 Jan 1941 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 January 1941. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Million Gold H
11 Dec 1940 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 11 December 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Invisible Man 6
22 Nov 1940 · 10 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 22 November 1940. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1940–1941
Other series the network carried while The Adventures of Superman was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The rocket age
Dimension X put Bradbury and Asimov on the air with sound design as the special effect. Every science fiction audio drama since is working in that studio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Adventures of Superman
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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