Friendship Club (aka-Island in the Lake): Let George Do It (May 31, 1948)

“Friendship Club (aka-Island in the Lake)” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 31, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

George Valentine is hired by Edith Wilder to find her missing sister Angela, who disappeared two days ago from Tuxedo Lake. Angela, a serial bride who has been married multiple times, vanished after her current husband Walter paid her twenty thousand dollars to settle their separation, but the circumstances of her disappearance grow increasingly mysterious when George discovers she left behind all her clothes and possessions.

Tuxedo Lake, an exclusive area with an island community in California, and the Selby Friendship Club marriage bureau

Characters: George Valentine, Brooksie (George's associate), Edith Wilder, Walter Filiston, Angela Kramer Filiston, Mr. Selby (Friendship Club operator), Bud Kramer (Angela's son)

Listen for: George and Brooksie's investigation into a disappearance that may be more sinister than it appears, involving a marriage broker, a suspicious son, and evidence suggesting foul play rather than elopement

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.