Everything Is Nice: Let George Do It (September 5, 1949)

“Everything Is Nice” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 5, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private investigator George Valentine is hired by a wealthy man named Sanderman to investigate his red-haired daughter VV, who has been spending her afternoons at a disreputable establishment called Bamboo Bill's. When Valentine visits the bar to gather information, VV is shot upstairs. Before Valentine can fully investigate, Sanderman himself is murdered in his home on his wife's birthday, shot through a kitchen window. Valentine must untangle a web of alibis and deceptions to identify the killer.

A city with a tropical-themed nightclub called Bamboo Bill's, the Sanderman home, and police headquarters. The story takes place during a birthday celebration for Mrs. Sanderman.

Characters: George Valentine, Mr. Sanderman, VV Sanderman, Mrs. Sanderman (Dora), Bill McGee, Osbert Layton, Lieutenant Riley, Charlie

Listen for: The clever solution involving birthday candles and their burn time to establish when the murder actually occurred, proving the apparent alibi is false. Also listen for the revelation of a bigamy scheme and the twist about who the real killer is.

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.