The Island of Tin-Yutan (The South Sea Adventure): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 5, 1949)

“The Island of Tin-Yutan (The South Sea Adventure)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 5, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to the remote island of Tin-Yutan in the South Seas to investigate a $50,000 life insurance claim involving the Grand East Development Corporation. Upon arriving at the island by chartered schooner, he discovers a dead body hanging from a shipwrecked vessel and encounters a mysterious fellow passenger who emerges with guns drawn, creating a tense and dangerous situation.

The island of Tin-Yutan off the coast of New Guinea in the South Seas, aboard the chartered schooner Kitty-Wake, and the surrounding waters.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Captain Steve Granger, Mr. Nockie, The mysterious fellow passenger

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's dry narration about his insurance investigation work and growing suspicion of the mysterious passenger; the atmospheric descriptions of sea travel and arrival at the island; the tense confrontation at the end when the armed passenger makes his appearance.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.