Have Some Excitement: Let George Do It (June 7, 1948)

“Have Some Excitement” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 7, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

George Valentine, a troubleshooter for hire, receives an urgent request from Peter Murch, a timid movie comedian who has spent 30 years playing meek characters. Murch wants George to introduce him to excitement and danger to help him overcome his nervous disposition before starting his first starring role. George agrees to help, but when he takes Murch to Mark Logan's pool hall for some excitement, Logan suggests an increasingly dangerous plan involving a kidnapping and a trip to the seaside amusement park's tunnel of love—where a murder once occurred.

A city featuring a pool hall, a vegetarian restaurant, and a seaside amusement park with a tunnel of love attraction.

Characters: George Valentine, Peter Murch, Brooksie, Mark Logan

Listen for: The tension between George's attempts to provide harmless excitement and Mark Logan's schemes that become increasingly sinister, culminating in an ominous reference to an unsolved murder in the tunnel of love.

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.